With the pandemic, we only hang out around our house. Fortunately, there’s a lot to see besides chickens and dogs. Here is a list of some of the things I’ve seen on our property so far. If there’s an asterisk, it means I see them pretty much daily. Probably there’s more, but this gives you feel for it. And I suppose at other times of the year there will be different players. A lot of times I don’t know what they are but find out from iNaturalist.
Deer*
Hummingbirds*
Roadrunners
Checkered garter snakes
Coachwhip snake
Texas spiny lizards*
Green anoles
Geckos
Whiptails/racerunner lizards*
Mushrooms, including flowerpot parasol
Bees*
Red wasps*
Eastern cicada-killer wasps
Cicadas*
Differential grasshoppers
Admiral grasshoppers
Katydid
Fire ants*
Dragonflies
June bugs
Yellow cellar slug
Drop snails
Cactus lady beetle
Click beetles
Painted lady*
Monarch butterfly
Pipevine swallowtail
Green lynx spider
Dancer damselfly
Jumping spiders
Gulf coast toads
Birds of prey (not sure what they are yet)
Grubs (larval form of beetles)
Eggs laid in odd places in yard
And most recently, we learned that we have at least a couple of persimmon trees in the yard! Turns out they are Texas persimmons which are not at all like the persimmons we see in California. But still, they are edible too!
I’ve seen the dogs eat cicadas, other large insects, and play with a large toad in the yard. The insects make a large “crunch” and the toad, oh the poor thing, tossed around like a toy! It saddened me so much. Eventually, I’m gonna setup a toad habitat where the dogs won’t harm the resident.
You made a what appointment?
Pups have appointment at end of the month to be neutered!