Monday, October 14, 2019

chamiso. And snails.


That's enough chamiso for now (I think it is chamiso, though I'm always called it chamisa ...).  But some of you - a small sub-group of you - will appreciate my excitement when I realized that the bush outside our garage in New Mexico was full of snails!  I think these are zonitoides arboreus, having just skim-read an article on "Some Terrestrial Gastropoda from New Mexico," and compared some names with pictures ... So maybe this last weekend could count as a research trip?  Hmmm.  These are pretty, and earnest little snails, but I also think that I understand why there was a family of bluebirds lined up on our garage roof.  Bluebirds love snails, and I'm happy to oblige.

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