Five kit fox pups were having a great time playing and chasing each other around the Borrego Badlands early July (Video: Sicco Rood). Higher quality version: youtu.be/fBtyY23efek?...

Kit fox pup on the lookout this morning in the Borrego Badlands (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Lenticular cloud formation above the Santa Rosa Mountains during a wind event on 6-26-26 (Photo: Sicco Rood).

ABDSP continues to be littered with helium-filled mylar balloons, bought and released at the coast. Balloons ascend up the mountains and drift back down into the desert as they deflate. www.change.org/banmylarball...

Turkey vultures and a raven sharing a snake (likely roadkill) this afternoon (Video: Sicco Rood).

A western glossy snake hanging out at Borrego Palm Canyon Campground yesterday morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Checking in with the "kits" at about 6 am on 6-16-26 (Photo: Sicco Rood).

White-winged dove in Borrego Palm Canyon (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Full moonrise on the 30th of May behind palm trees east of Borrego Springs (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Kit fox pups playing around their den in the Borrego Badlands (Video: Sicco Rood).

Encounter with not just one, but three cute kit foxes (vulpes macrotis) this morning in the Borrego Badlands (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Altocumulus lenticularis clouds seen this evening at sunset looking north of Borrego Springs (Photo: Sicco Rood).

One of the juvenile long-eared owls in the park (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Full moonrise over Borrego yesterday evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Help protect Anza-Borrego from the Golden Pacific Powerlink A 500,000kV Threat to California’s Largest State Park theabf.org/park-threat/

Looking towards Fonts Point and Travelers Peak.

Hazy sunrise above Travelers Peak on Monday(Photo: Sicco Rood).

Saguaros in Ca natively grow only in the eastern corner of the state along the AZ border. Somehow this individual is doing great without being artificially watered (there is one more within the park boundary, but that is a homestead memorial) (Photos: Sicco Rood).

View of Mescal Bajada this morning with Golden Pacific Powerlink 500-kV high-voltage transmission line. will cut through the middle of Anza-Borrego Desert (if SDGE and their investors get what they want). Please go here to learn more and take action: theabf.org/park-threat/

Truckhaven Rocks, a windswept area with barren sandstone formations. During an earlier storm this month (2026-04-12).

Timelapse of stacked lenticular clouds above the Santa Rosa Mountains yesterday afternoon (Video: Sicco Rood). youtu.be/Yqr8o6PwVrw

Lenticular timelapse above the Santa Rosa Mountains

YouTube video by Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center

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Yesterday's colorful sunrise above Anza-Borrego Desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A black-throated sparrow from Flat Cat Canyon (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A California quail on an ocotillo at Borrego Palm Canyon (Sicco Rood).

A raven chases a cottontail rabbit at the Reserve. The bunny got away (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Northern mockingbird at Flat Cat Canyon (04-05-26).

A flame skimmer in Borrego Palm Canyon last Sunday.

A desert iguana near Flat Cat Canyon this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Purple desert hairy verbena flowers were visible from space during their peak around 02/09/26. Photo: Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. Sarah Payne, a visiting researcher who stayed at the Reserve used ENVI to make the colors more visible through a process called Band Mapping.

Someone in the previous post asked why the roadrunner was not being chased by the coyote... It appears Wile E. Coyote was still in the Borrego Badlands absorbed in contemplation (Photo: Sicco Rood).