Alamos: The Unfeathered

The area around the Rancho Acosta is good for all sorts of wildlife, from mammals to bugs. Butterflies are abundant , every puddle covered with swarms of sulphurs; how many species do you see here?

Nightime had its share of big leps, too, including this gigantic moth on one of the room doors.

A little less appealing, though just as fascinating, was the biggest centipede I’d ever seen; it was a little frightening, even after it apparently expired in the night.

Our mammal list was slender this time around, with just white-tailed deer, an unidentified cottontail, and road-killed gray fox and striped skunk. The very wet wet season this year seemed to have done great things for the local antelope jackrabbit population, though, and we saw them every day, even in the parking lot at the Rancho!

Now that’s a rabbit!