There's nothing for scale on this photo but let's say it was probably slightly larger than my head! Found at the base of a tree by the road.
ID from a quick Google search leading to this similar-looking fungus: http://mbushii.blogspot.com/2007/10/fungus-amongus-in-santa-barbara.html
At Summer Camp on the Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. The owl lives in the barn at Summer Camp.
Look very different (and in a different genus) to European badgers.
Seen being chased away from a herd of cow elk and young by a couple of elk.
Soaring above Harsin Butte on Zumwalt Prairie
A golden-coloured bear seen far away on a hill on Zumwalt Prairie.
A garter snake basking on the rocks near Hurricane Creek in the Wallowa Mountains. It hid before I could get a proper look at it!
Brown hawker dragonfly. The mother of all dragonflies! Made a racket in the undergrowth.
Looks like a snake but is actually a legless lizard! First time I've seen something like this in Britain, it was as I was walking along a closed road near Salisbury, just sticking out of a drain.
Seen circling over fields just outside of Salisbury in September.
Or could possibly be the Five-spot burnet moth (Zygaena trifolii)
Just minding my own business and look what flies into the window!
Either a Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) or Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperi).
