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2026-05-06 03:01 UTC

On the way back from the gym, I saw the neighbor's cat, the one I'm afraid is going to eat my lizard friends and that hunts birds in my yard, stalking something in the cactus. I assumed it was a lizard so yelled and it ran away. When I went over to look, it was the rattlesnake coiled up in strike position and very agitated. Looks like the cat isn't very smart about snakes so nature will take its course with that little monster eventually.

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@Mikal@sfba.social 2026-05-06 03:07

Just at dusk, that were hummingbirds at the feeders, a cardinal at the seed feeder, a flock of vultures comically trying to roost in the palm trees across the street like they do every night. The nectar bats have shown up at the hummingbird feeders now and there are some smaller insectivorous bats flitting around. I heard my first ever common poorwill just now (according to the Merlin bird call app). As I said in a comment to someone, just sitting here on the porch wandering around the yard for a couple days and you might see as many as 40 different vertebrate species, most of them birds and herps, but also multiple rodents, rabbits, bobcat, coyote and javelina. There are deer and feral mules right at the edge of town that sometimes come in. The abundance and diversity of wildlife would be considered amazing anywhere, but for the middle of a town, it's unreal.

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