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Red Shoulder Hawk

The guy in this picture came with an interesting story.  At first I though him to be a goshawk but now I believe it was a juvenile red shoulder hawk.  The pic appears to be of him in a chain link cage and yes, he was.  At the time we had only a few chickens [...]

Banded Water Snake

We had a run of several of these dudes…presumably from the same nest since they were the same size, the one in the pictures was found in our bathroom beside my son’s potty while he was on it.  Yikes! Erika noticed him and thought it was a ringneck.  she came back with the container to [...]

Black Racer

This dude lives in our garden…we see him all the time and usually when he or we aren’t paring attention…needless to say we startle each other often   In these shots he’s hangin out on our banana plants…

Corn Snake – Red Rat Snake

This little guy was living in the control box for our gate opener…quite mellow never tried to bite even after picking him up…he’s a good guardian so he’s welcome to stay as long as he likes…and as long as he fits through the small hole in the opener.

Swallow Tailed Kite

These awesome birds visit us every year in the spring and dazzle us with their fighter pilot moves…This is not my photo and I don’t remember where I got it or I would include the link, but it’s a good one to represent what we see from to ground…

Gopher Tortoise

Move along now people nothing to see here I’m just a rock…really.This dude was in the neighbor’s pasture trying to get into ours…in the morning there was a neat tunnel under the fence and we had a new resident on the farm.  I guess the grass was greener on our side of the fence. _______________________________________________– [...]