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2026-05-06 00:09 UTC
@Mikal@sfba.social You're living in a freakin' zoo. A dangerous one, but still pretty cool.
I saw a bobcat once when I was out photographing in the wilderness. It clambered up on a big rock I was standing on, and my first thought was it was the cutest thing I'd ever seen. Then I started worrying where it's mother was. Unfortunately it scampered off before I could get the camera out of my backpack.
Today I was moving a roll of some landscape fabric today that's been sitting outside. I unrolled some of it to dry out and disturbed two lizards. Thought of you and your lizards, wishing I had some mealworms for them. They were the biggest lizards I've seen around here, maybe 8-10". Never seen a pair around here before. I hope I didn't disturb anything.
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@Mikal@sfba.social 2026-05-06 01:52
@955_36@sfba.social I did a rough count and without doing much more than hanging out in my yard for two days there's potentially 40 vertebrates that I could see. Plus quite a number of other species that I haven't actually seen here but that are probably around. It's what happens when even developed areas are very similar to the natural area around town. Plus very, very few free roaming cats. Plus a general acceptance of wildlife, so people don't automatically kill anything that gets into their yards that they don't like. But, really, it's mostly the fact that there is wild at desert relatively close by and that the yards here are not that much different, habitat-wise.