Full Moon Days

Nothing going on here for astrophotography, the moon is too bright. Birding is still very slow and in my walks around the desert I’m not finding many flowers or butterflies. All in all, not much going on. At least the weather is nice. Many of the campers have left now, the campground is very quiet again.

While hiking out by Valentine Well I came across this homemade grave marker. I’m not sure what Quate means, it could be cuate, which can mean brother or friend in Spanish. I suppose Francisco was another immigrant looking for a better life.

A Harris’s Antelope Ground Squirrel feeding on something. Like chipmunks and Red Squirrels, hard to pass up.

It is hard to find anything new to photograph, so here’s another Common Side-blotched Lizard in breeding colors.

I found this Wilson’s Snipe this morning, at the golf course. It was probing in the soft soil around a leaking pipe. It let me get pretty close. Not very often one can find one of these out in the open like this.

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I believe “quate” means friend or buddy in Spanish. Birding is slow here, too. Anytime you can see a snipe it’s a good day though. The Harris’s Antelope Ground Squirrel is a cute guy.

I think that is what it means in this context, most of the online dictionaries I looked at use cuate, I suppose there are variations of spelling and meaning.

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