A few days of traipsing and hunting deer in the hills and all Petey can talk about is hearing his heart beat. Oh dear.
There is nothing like sitting down on a hillside and glassing the opposite hills and canyons. It’s an opportunity to see many wild creatures. And hiking over rocky slopes all day long is a good thing as well. Totally recommended.
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus name looks like a...
Petey wanders into the nearby hills and comes across a couple different species of native bunch grasses and tells us all about them.