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Colaptes auratus

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If you love me, keep it to yourself

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Golden dome cave

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Lying in repose

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Sandhill cranes

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Entrance/exit

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Springtime

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Purple povidone iodine

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Aleksi Poutanen

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Tarantula paws & vermillion setae 😍 (Poecilotheria ornata)

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This is the best color

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The butte is the only large feature in the landscape for miles, so all manner of birds nest, roost and eat in the crevices the cliff faces (hence the discarded bones). When Tule Lake used to come up this far - thousands of years ago and before it was bled dry by agriculture and drought - the ancestors of the Modoc people made thousands of petroglyphs on the rock faces. These are now “protected” by a fence, but people still find a way to deface them. I always feel saturated with emotion here - it’s teeming with life and death and beauty and ugliness.