Thursday, August 23, 2007
So my soap opera was a detective show yesterday but today it was all home improvement and nature. I'm out at the ruins of a military fort, with the county obtaining the last portion. Watching as the backhoe scraped drainage areas and workers removed fallen debris. I get to sort through the mess to collect architectural elements and weird things like big concrete blocks with newspapers from 1920 stuck to their underside.
Fort ruins.
Suddenly the backhoe operator gets off his hoe and comes over and announces that a bee swarm had just shown up.
Africanized bees.
The bees gathered underneath the decrepit roof of a porch. If you click on the picture it gets bigger. The bees on the outside were busy fanning their wings, attempting to cool off the queen. Probably by tomorrow they will have moved on to some other location.
Besides this I saw three types of lizard, cottontail rabbits, and a very long green and yellow snake that freaked me out.
It's strange how many animals manage to live in urban Tucson.
Newer› ‹Older
Fort ruins.
Suddenly the backhoe operator gets off his hoe and comes over and announces that a bee swarm had just shown up.
Africanized bees.
The bees gathered underneath the decrepit roof of a porch. If you click on the picture it gets bigger. The bees on the outside were busy fanning their wings, attempting to cool off the queen. Probably by tomorrow they will have moved on to some other location.
Besides this I saw three types of lizard, cottontail rabbits, and a very long green and yellow snake that freaked me out.
It's strange how many animals manage to live in urban Tucson.
