Tuesday, February 23, 2010
STRIKE UP THE BAND
Today, Booker and I were on the trail.
I looked down and there was this beautiful snake sticking about 6-8 inches out from under a rock.
He was a rich brown and black stripe. The stripes about half an inch to an inch wide.
I yelled out loud. I guess that is redundant. A yell is out loud, huh? Well, there are internal yells but this wasn't it. It was pretty loud so I will let "loud yell" stand.
Booker went on point and looked around. Ready to leap. He is amazingly attuned to our emotions.
If something that he could see had shown up it would have been in trouble.
The snake went back under the rock.
There are so many snakes in the desert here that it is difficult to identify them precisely but this one looks like a Sonora semiannulata semiannulata - Variable Groundsnake.
Labels: Booker, desert, wildlife
