Austin Wildlife

After growing up in Arizona, one of the things we are enjoying most here in Texas is the different wildlife.  

Let’s start out with the first new animal I saw and perhaps the only one I didn’t enjoy seeing. We found him on the rest stop bathroom entrance. I’ll post him small… I can’t bare to see it any bigger than that.  *shiver*  CREEPS me out.

Next we saw some deer at the soccer fields at dt’s work.  Every day we pick him up we have to drive by and see if they’re out on the field.   We’ve even seen them leap into the air when they spotted us!

Many times we’ll see the fawns over by the baseball diamond.  They’re smart and are placing the babies where they’ll be protected. Awww, such good little mommies. Here is a mom and her baby:

(Kevin, you may want to turn away for a moment…)

You may remember the gecko we found that I posted awhile back.  No AZ brown bumpy lizards here!  Mostly we see these types of geckos.  A lot of them are bright green too.  They mostly come out at night and take care of all the bugs on our back patio.

(You can look back now, Kevin.)

There is, of course, the sweet little birdie on our back patio, too.  It’s not there every night, but we still see it occationally.  Also, most mornings there are a couple of blue birds screeching their hideous song in our front yard trees.  (Not all birds sing beautifully, apparently.)  But there was a song bird we heard the other day singing away.  It was awesome!  

A couple of weekends ago, we found a snake in our yard!  We were looking at a gecko and all of a sudden Jr shouted, “SNAKE!” (I think the snake was scoping out the gecko, too.)  At first I thought he had to be mistaken… but lo and behold, there it was. 

Here he is peering up at us with his wee beady eyes!

I don’t mind the snake and will take that over the taranchula any day!  We think he may live in the bush out in the backyard… since that’s where he slithered off to hide. (duh)

Yesterday, while we drove by they field to check for deer and we were pleasantly surprised with armadillo!  We were so excited to see real, live armadillo.  Usually we see real, dead armadillo by the side of the road. So this was such an awesome sight to see our first bunch slowly grazing around. They are so cute and reminded us of little bunnies with the way they move.  I think I’ll name this one Hank.

I just love it!  All of these new little creatures to check out and enjoy! We also see lots of butterflies, dragonflies and our neighbor has a frog living in his front yard.  So cute!

Most mornings when I do my daily singing and spinning outside by the creek they all gather around and sing along.  What a great way to start the day – Texas is glorious!!!

What, that doesn’t happen to you?