Marty’s photo of the day #4410: A little side-eye, from a desert tortoise. (Photographed in the Mojave Desert)
Desert tortoise side-eye
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Desert tortoise
Marty’s photo of the day #3641: I photographed this desert tortoise while exploring the Mojave Desert, along the California-Arizona border. What a face!
Desert tortoise
Marty’s photo of the day #3297: This is a desert tortoise, photographed several years ago in the Mojave Desert.
The desert in bloom
Marty’s photo of the day #3082: A few years ago I was on a college speaking tour that took me to California and Arizona. During a day off between gigs, I headed into the Mojave Desert. I was searching for desert tortoises (see yesterday’s post) and was treated to a desert in full-bloom. Here’s a […]
The desert tortoise comes through
Marty’s photo of the day #3081: A few years ago I was on a college speaking tour that took me to California and Arizona. During a day off between gigs, I headed into the Mojave Desert in search of a desert tortoise. Very rarely does nature cooperate and produce the very animal I’m looking for, […]
Animals A to Z: The Letter T
Marty’s photo of the day #2631: It’s “Animals A thru Z Month.” Each day in August, I will post an animal I’ve photographed—somewhere in the world—in alphabetical order. T is for Tortoise. Desert tortoises are listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. I photographed this tortoise in the Mojave National Preserve, which is on […]
Isn’t she a beauty!
Marty’s photo of the day #2430: Five years ago, I was on a speaking tour that took me to the Arizona-California border. During an off-day between gigs, I explored the Mojave National Preserve. One of my finds there was this desert tortoise. Unfortunately desert tortoises are listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But […]