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I have referenced the fact that it can seem like Wild Kingdom around the old homestead. Here is a list of animals that we have seen around or near our community over the last several years:

• roadrunners
• possums
• skunks
• armadillos
• red-tailed hawks (The one I saw on Saturday had just swooped down and carried off a snake for his morning snack. Too. cool.)
• wild pigs
• an escaped (or released) six-foot python (I have the pictures to prove it somewhere.)
• a bobcat
• yellow garden spiders (That we usually name Charlotte and that TLS feeds grasshoppers.)

In a related note, Luna moth #2 made her appearance yesterday. Based on the width of the antennas, the first was a male, which fits with the reading I've done that the males normally leave the pupa first. Now let the egg-laying begin!