My House ... The Zoo

It's a lovely 80 degrees this morning, a little above our average nightly temperatures here.  It's nice to sit on the patio and admire the dark when it's not 107 with the air fryer blowing.  Funny how quickly 80 becomes cool!!

That means that I've been spending a lot of time inside my little zoo.  There's always some new creepy crawly to admire.  Here's two of the outside variety I caught sharing the water.  It's kind of sad that everything eats everything around here.  The roadrunners eat baby anything, the coyotes and bobcats eat the bunnies.  

I have to admit I feel bad for the bunnies not having much food, so those that figure out how to jump my fence are now allowed to snack on the grass since the plants are dead anyway.  With no monsoons in sight, there's not much green for them.

Here's my pride and joy.  My bathroom zoo.  Yeah, well, I guess I forgot to feed this guy for the last two weeks and he starved to death.  In my defense, there were two flies in there that he snacked on for a few days.  

THIS .... I don't know what the heck THIS is, but it's big ... probably 1-1/2 inches long.  I'm sure he stings ... they all do around here ... so he became dinner for the ants.  Mostly because I felt bad about not taking care of the bathtub zoo critter.  Everything has to eat, you know.

Here's one from my second zoo.  Yup I've got TWO wireless enclosures, perfect to keep critters in their element without hurting any other residents of my house, including me.  Scorpions are my favorite ones to keep at the zoo, but alas, since we sprayed the front porch area so well, none have fallen in.  Lucky me!

What I do seem to have a lot of lately is hummingbirds.  Most likely because nothing is blooming with food for them.  Yesterday as I watched out the window, I counted 15 fighting over the nectar.  It's crazy how they chase each other off.  I don't know how they miss all the structures ... they fly so fast ... like lightning!

 

This guy landed on my flower pot holder for a rest.  He's panting considerably in the heat ... see his open beak?  Poor guys ... but they continue to fly and eat up a storm.

 

After kitty duty yesterday, I went out to feed the goldfish.  I don't know how these guys survive in water this hot.  Dan has had these babies since they were babies.  Honestly, if I had a fishing pole, we could have a big fish fry!!  They are about five inches long!!!

 

 

 

Yes I do have two more critter videos for you ... one is just the cutest ever ... but I thought I'd give you a break.  I'll post them tomorrow.  Today I'm off to Tombstone to see what's new in the town too tough to die.  Unlike California, their restaurants and businesses are open.  YAHOO!!