Now that I know what to look for, I identified another site of digger bee nests in Navajo sandstone in this 2021 photo. This rock is 7 miles west of the outcrop where Jeff Mitton helped me understand what the tiny holes indicated in my 2023 visit.
The distance between sites suggests that many more nest sides wait to be found on the Paria Plateau. I will be on the lookout for them in my old photos.
See next photo for close up. This rock is in the rarely-visited south end of White Pocket. I did not see any other nests in the nearby rocks, but at the time I was not looking for them.
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Here is a close up of the bee nests I found in a rock in the rarely-visited south end of White Pocket, Arizona. The nests are the small holes around the tafoni pockets.
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Two giraffes have a nice day in Entabeni Safari Preserve, South Africa. The imposing edifice of Hanglip Mountain, part of the Waterburg Range, dominates the skyline of a habitat for elephants, giraffes, hippos, lions, leopards, wildebeest, zebras, and numerous species of birds and antelopes.
This backlit image was difficult to fix, but I hope this result puts these large animals in perspective.
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I enlarged this photo taken in August 2004 with Topaz Gigapixel AI. One of the newly-installed ladders is visible at bottom.
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Detail of crossbeds interrupted by a horizontal bounding surface, continuing above the next set of crossbeds. Navajo sandstone in Cathedral Valley, Paria Plateau, Arizona. 3-frame panorama.
Abrupt bounding surfaces are ubiquitous in the Navajo sandstone on the Paria Plateau, especially at Coyote Buttes. Some buttes have two dozen bounding surfaces or more.
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