A Digging Dynamo Sources in the literature refer to the various armadillo species as being fairly nocturnal and crepuscular in their activity patterns. This one was caught while exiting its burrow entrance in the wilds of Chile during the day. Check out those bodacious claws used effectively in its fossorial way of life. They make this Hairy Armadillo a digging dynamo! ~ Anecdote and Hairy Armadillo capture, A Digging Dynamo © Jerry L. Ferrara
A Puma Pauses In Chile’s Patagonian region, a Puma pauses while on the hunt. ~ Anecdote and Puma capture, A Puma Pauses © Jerry L. Ferrara
The Elusive In his book A Field Guide to Animal Tracks, Olaus Murie paints the elusive Puma as a creature cloaked in secrecy. Much of the time spoor is all most of us will see of the feline’s ghost-like perambulations. Over the years, here in the U.S., I’ve had the good fortune to have encountered lions on three separate occasions in a wild setting. Each time the camera was absent, yet that does not take anything away from the thrill experienced in witnessing these magnificent cats. ~ Anecdote and Puma capture, The Elusive © Jerry L. Ferrara. Image recorded in the wilds of Chile’s Patagonian outback.
First Impression It was a first impression. Though sporting a much longer tail and a garish ‘coat’, this male Long-tailed Meadowlark immediately brought to mind our North American Western and Eastern Meadowlark species. ~ Anecdote and Long-tailed Meadowlark capture, First Impression © Jerry L. Ferrara. Chile, South America
And A Puma Feasted Death visited the Patagonian wildlands in the darkness of pre-morn. Its tenebrous intent was as shadowy as the gloom it traversed, and it moved with a resolute purpose. Death’s mission was to release a soul. And so, in the wee hours of dayspring, Death set free a Guanaco’s spirit and a Puma feasted. ~ Anecdote and Puma capture, And A Puma Feasted © Jerry L. Ferrara