Some cool southern living images:
Birdnest, The Living Desert
Image by Caitlyn Willows
The Living Desert, Palm Desert, California, December 2010
Southern Emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus)
Image by David Cook Wildlife Photography (kookr)
Croajingolong National Park, Victoria, Australia. Male.
An elusive species at best! These guys only live in coastal heath and invariably are buried deep inside heathy shrubs – this male was inside a bush in poor light, and some distance away (so heavily cropped), but I did have a clear shot of him. He was reacting to a playback recording on my iPhone and was very interested in the "other" emu-wren in his territory, but not interested enough to come out into the sun! Just love that tail.
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Southern Ringneck
Image by BlueRidgeKitties
My cats brought this little fella into the house to chase it around. What a sight – four excited felines with their entire attention focused on what looked like a piece of shoestring on cursory glance. Except, it was wriggling and slithering for its dear life, the cats hot on its tail. I managed to capture it in the living room – the snake seemed unharmed and happily slid away into the underbrush when I released it in the backyard. Hopefully it learned a valuable lesson and will stay out of the cat enclosure in the future.