This attractive whiptail has a very limited range in the United States -- just a few small areas in south-central Arizona -- so I was very happy to run across one. (I saw one more the next day.)

This is a distinctive, good-looking whiptail species, with only a small range in the U.S., and I had previously only seen this species on one trip. Normally that would be enough for me to spend some significant time trying to get a good photo. But on this day, I had my sights set on a different quarry, the Sonoran Collared Lizard, so this foraging whiptail got short shrift. Short shrift, I say!