A hot week in April

[MojaveGeek]

It may be me, but it seems like the Horned Toads are getting  more rare than the sheep.

I think of them as pretty common, although on this trip we saw one "toad" and 2 sheep so...  They don't act like other lizards - instead of running away as fast as the wind, they are slower, just try to crawl into a place where you can't grab them, and if really trapped, flatten themselves.   So relatively easy to see (if they move - I wonder how many I pass and just never see).

Walking once a bit east of the Skidoo road, there's a fun mine back there with a tramway tower you can climb, we encountered two - a brown one living among brown rocks, and a grey one living among grey slate-ish rocks.   But there were no more than 50 yards apart!