Shorty Harris

#SerpentsOfTheRainbow #WorldSnakeDay Grand Canyon Rattlesnake from a 7 mile hike down the Grandview Trail last September.

@CrytzerFry That's a really nice looking one!

😍 ... only the 3rd or 4th time I've seen a western banded #gecko at our place. Since they are nocturnal & Squeezy could have gotten him, I relocated to some cool, shaded rocks. Also: testament to NOT using pesticides (& why we have walking sticks, mantises, tarantulas).

@ckfrostenson Yeah it was buzzing a bit. I picked these photos specifically because the rattle was just a blur in other photos that I took while it was rattling, and I did want to show off that nice tapered rattle. Thank you.

@ShortyHarris99 Pretty rattle … did it vibrate🫨?

Nice look at the heat sensing pits on this Prairie Rattlesnake that I saw today in the Zuni Mtns of New Mexico. (My 1st viridis of 2026)

@ThetfordSteven I would guess it's some kind of blister beetle.

I forget the name of them but these beetles are so cool! They rattle as they scurry along.

@foxloveslizards Exactly!

@ShortyHarris99 Those patch-nosed love a good morning basking session. 10am in the desert, snake on road, I assume patch-nosed. I stop to double check, of course

Close-up of a Desert Patch-nosed Snake. I mostly see these snakes in the morning as they warm themselves up on paved and dirt roads. They seem to be a fairly common species in both the Mojave & Sonoran Deserts.

@JojoReptiles That Great Plains Skink is awesome! 👍 Also I'm thinking the other lizard is Ornate Tree Lizard but not 100% certain from the photos.

また何かしらのユタトカゲやらグレートプレーンズスキンクなどなど

@NASA I thought we would see better live images of the moon? The live view inside the cabin is crystal clear.🌛

LIVE: Watch with us as the Artemis II astronauts make their closest approach to the Moon, traveling farther from Earth than ever before. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@AMAZlNGNATURE Totally fake!

if this photo reaches your timeline, everything will be okay ❤️

Cool cloud iridescence!(NOT ChEmTrAiLs)

@eye4msu "I love the smell of aether in the morning!" 😆 And here I always thought that was jet fuel that I smelled on the jet bridge, I stand corrected!

God help us all,as a nation. Despite a wealth of knowledge & opportunities to learn at our fingertips,a luxury unimaginable just 40 years ago, far too many of us choose to stick their heads up their own asses & brainwash themselves with LCD bs that isnt fit for daytime soaps.

@dragon_wingz @SawyerMerritt @SpaceX I thought the same thing! Brought back memories of watching it as a child.

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX And those animations instead of onboard cameras, I remember that from the 60's. LOL.

NASA’s Artemis II livestream really makes you appreciate @SpaceX’s launch broadcasts. Bad camera tracking, no onboard cameras, countdown timer disappeared, NASA even showed people in the crowd instead of stage separation lol. The screen also blacked out twice during the first 10 seconds of the launch.

@ThetfordSteven Yeah they are pretty impressive when they get that big and chunky!

@ShortyHarris99 They can get so big if left alone. I once found one that was unofficially over 6' long as measured by holding it over my head and it's tail still dragged the ground by a good foot.

A nice 48" (122cm) Gophersnake crossing the trail on yesterday's hike. These large constrictors are very common out here in western New Mexico & found in every type of habitat.

@CrytzerFry That's very cool! I've only seen actual gophers twice in my entire life! Lots of dirt mounds of course, but only 2 gophers.

That face! Botta's pocket #gophers are SO Dr. Seuss! Saw some flowers being sucked into the ground and knew JUST who it was!

All the Plateau Striped Whiptails are waking up from the winter sleep like this one yesterday. Interesting fact: this is an all female species that reproduce from unfertilized eggs.

A colorful male Eastern Collared Lizard watched me from under a boulder today. I took one more step and it disappeared underneath.

My friend named this guy "Big Daddy". I saw him today for the 4th straight year; he has a definite territory. I reckon he must be about 10 years old. He's the biggest Eastern Collared Lizard in the area, but surprisingly he lacks the bright yellow head of the other local males.

@akane3natsuki Yes, if alcohol had just now been invented there is no possibility that it would be legal: highly addictive and terrible short term side effects, and really destructive long term health problems.

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