Fotos - Tier

Earl The Scorpion - A whole slew of pictures of Earl and stories too.
The excess of comments tends to butcher the sorting...

Roger as a Mouse pad - Here's the meow,
Roger, being used as a mousepad. In August
of 2002 I turned the picture into a mouse pad
so he is now used as a mouse pad recursively.
Rogers Kopf - A closeup of the cat who
is of legal driving age.
Roger on a Pillow - This is what happens,
when you leave cats in a cold room.
Skorpion Mk. II - This guy was around
a long time without a name.
Jake watches koi in the pond.
Omega about to crash - She's dropped
the ball about a second before she crashes
into my legs.
Gala the Tarantula - A lazy tarantula,
she has no hope of survival in the wild.
Jark in the Bathtub - Not quite fond of
the falling water or even the surrounding
water, an older Jark contemplates his
dire situation.
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Jark the baby Bearded Dragon
Eats baby crickets like the spider
in Sim Ant devours the ants.
Marvin the Amblypygid - A tailless
whip scorpion, he makes mad dashes
when you sneeze.
Marvin again - A picture of him
running sideways would also be impressive.
Scout goes in all-out hunting mode
when he confuses a a butterfly for quail.
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Actual Wildlife

Blue Jay on the Bench
I'm still not sure this happened.
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Hawk and his Prey
This Hawk swooped down off the statue in the courtyard of the Engineering-Physics building to catch this sky rat (pigeon). In bottom right picture, he was eyeing me pretty well, I think he wanted my hat if I went after his lunch.
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Robins in the front yard
These guys like hopping around my front yard
hunting down the birds in the late winter.
They have returned to my house
for the winter of 2005.
Scissortail
Another interesting bird native to Texas.
Sitting in the tree,
almost posing for the picture.
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A coastal bird glides across the
water in search of fish.
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A flock of Hen Turkeys
Running away from me as you can tell.
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Maybe, not always cute, but probably more often than not...

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A curious spot to relax on a hot day.
A Black Witch Moth - A bunch of these
blew into Houston with the Hurricane Claudette.
I found this female in the parking garage at work
after lunch one day. Here is a Press Release about it.
Sheep Crossing - in Texas you have to worry
about all sorts of things crossing the road
in front of you.
Antelope with a few Windmills
I took this picture on the scenic route
around the McDonald Observatory.
A bat that was flying around in the daylight,
landed on the driveway, then crawled under
the truck's tire
cottontail-1 Cottontail Rabbit who didn't do a good job
of hiding from me in the grass so I snuck up
and got this picture from above.
There are TONS of jackrabbits in West Texas.
A moth colored white and yellow.
A slew of yellow butterflies clinging to moisture.
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praying-mantis
A Green Anole is a color changing lizard
which can be found eating grasshoppers
around east texas.
A baby horny toad in a small cup for scale.
This fellow was about the size of a dime and was
discovered while mowing the yard.
An adult male Lopaphus Caesius, aka Stick Bug.
A squirrel in the late summer heat.
A two-tone squirrel on a slab of granite.
A Millipede which escaped the 80s.
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These are the cool ones with toxins and sometimes neurotoxins!

An outdoor nest under a ledge at the Observatory, she has an Ironclad Beetle to feast upon.
About 5 feet long, this bull snake spent some time under the bench.
Yeah, he's dead, but it makes a neat picture still.
Not much rain, but he didn't move from there until I upset him.
A Texas Coral Snake I encountered while working in Conroe one afternoon.
Another view of him slithering clumsily on the concrete to get away from me.
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Much to my surprise, he wasn't very squished after I had killed him.
Haven't seen any red ants before? They're quite amusing to watch (much much much more amusing than television).
This little guy was smashed the second time. Much smaller than the first but I didn't get a good picture of the first one. I picked him up with tape and realized he wasn't quite dead, so he got to drip poison on the tape while he awaited his destiny.
He tried to get me by the bed when I woke up one morning.
This was the first scorpion of the night. He was squished by my boot and was at least twice the size of the Second one.
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