This walking stick was hanging from an electrical line over our B&B at Canyon Lake last week, barely in reach of my zoom lens. I don’t know what he thought he’d find up there, and he seemed to make a great target for a hungry bird, but I guess he knew what he was doing. Well, insofar as any insect “knows” anything.
This is a vastly different kind of “stick” compared to the one I photographed last year. This one is Mike Tyson, while that one is Michael Cera.

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Fat or skinny, I don’t like seeing them. We sometimes have the skinny ones here only I didn’t know it was a walking stick, or a praying mantis.
Actually, I’m taking the word of the B&B owner that this is indeed a walking stick. I’m not really convinced that it’s not a praying mantis. I couldn’t get a good look at the eyes, but everything else looks mantis-like.