During one of my recent hikes in the jungle next to lake Hodges, I chanced upon a California kingsnake who was about to eat a mouse it had just killed. Afraid of me, it slithered away. I looked at its prey, took a few pictures, and then thought: I wonder if it will come back …
In today’s photo gallery, I show you a sequence of events which I witnessed and which involved 3 animals. There is no good guy, bad guy, and the like in this story. It is the cold, no nonsense, survival scheme of nature: to eat or be eaten. As you will see in the first pic, …
My latest reptile encounter: a beautiful California Kingsnake. Unfortunately he was very shy and slithered away so fast I got too little time to get better photos. The bees pictures were taken just in my yard using my macro lens. They were so busy collecting pollen they didn’t care about me hovering close by. I …