If you go to Tucson, there are two places that are considered mandatory to visit. The first is the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The Desert Museum is not a museum in any traditional sense of the word. It’s part zoo, part botanical garden with a touch of natural history museum thrown in for good measure. It is a microcosm of the Sonoran Desert. For this stop on our big Tucson tour, I switched to my 70-200mm zoom lens. I took a number of photos of the plants and scenery, but most of the ones I liked were of the animals. I wouldn’t say any of them were great, but many were pretty good. One of the most entertaining exhibits was a prairie dog burrow. Prairie dogs are viciously destructive and the scourge of farmers and ranchers. They are also incredibly cute to watch.
These are great. Makes me want to reconsider my “no critter” shooting policy.