Judy Kennedy is the author of Spiritual Practice, Occultism, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Travel Guide for Beyond the Rainbow. She also dabbles in videography and produces one of the most distinctive collections of Sonoran Desert wildlife videos on the web. This show is just one of many venues for her unique, extraordinary explorations of the natural world -- along with many others (explorations and worlds...) to come. So please stay tuned! Thanks! www.waywardmuse.comwww.judykennedy.com
This desert creature jumps and climbs all over red-barrel cacti covered with thorns without getting hurt. You won't believe it until you see it. I'll give you one hint: It's not a bug, bird, or reptile!
I thought I would share some footage of my resident cardinal couple for Christmas. While I have some great pix of the female, my footage of her is lost for the time being. Meanwhile, enjoy the pix and the male prancing around the water feature!
My second "rare bird sighting" of this beautiful species so far out of its normal range. Accompanied by black-headed grosbeaks, finches, doves, and hummingbirds, all competing for feeding space. See how the locals react to this stunning newcomer who seems to take it all in stride. . .
A common "city" bird (House Sparrow) gets mistaken for an exotic migrant from Mexico, but not for long! It is, however, a migrant from Europe, having been introduced to Central Park in New York City over 100 years ago. Here it is in the Sonoran Desert, far away from the city doing its thing.
The anaconda is one of the largest snakes in the world. It is giant a constrictor living in the waters of northern South America. Never in my life did I imagine I would ever see a live one, let alone hold it, film it, and just be with it!
A well-camouflaged red-eyed Black-Crowned Night Heron roosts in dense foliage on the bank of an agricultural canal in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. (He thinks he's hiding but he's not!)
Gorgeous pink-red coachwhip snake sipping water out of a birdbath then goes for a swim in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.
Some round-tailed ground squirrels gang up against a Sonoran Coachwhip, also known as a "red racer." I catch him slithering away with a brave little baby ground squirrel on his tail.
The blackbirds return en masse to the Sonoran Desert in wintertime to prepare for the spring breeding season. A juvenile red-tailed hawk experiencing the arrival in full force does a 360° head turn.
Three different encounters with the wild gopher snake on our ranch - among water works, in and out of "gopher" holes, and in our duck's nest!