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Band of Coyote in their golf course heaven— spotted this morning frolicking and enjoying their breakfast al fresco on the golf course. 🌵✌🏻✨. #belindacolozzi #coyotes #bandofcoyotes #arizonafauna #animallovers #arizona https://www.instagram.com/p/CA3y0banwv8/?igshid=jzrng97jjgaj

Small friend spotted east of Lynx Lake this morning, one of three horned lizards we saw within a few minutes. Little dragons, eating ants. #arizonafauna #hornedlizard #camoflauge https://www.instagram.com/p/BzlzaVdhaJf/?igshid=154eortuwu74x

We're having lightning, thunder, and lots of wind right now, but this dove seems to be protected from all of it. It's up in the eaves on our front porch, facing the front door, which is where I was standing to take this zoomed in photo. 😊😍❤ . . . . No rain, yet, but we'll probably get some soon, since the wind is blowing in our direction. 😊❤ . . . . #AZfauna #ArizonaFauna #AZdove #lighningstorm #windy #DesertLife #SonoraDesert

Do you see these two mourning doves? (I know they're mourning and not white-tipped doves thanks to the second picture. Well, more because I was watching the doves and saw the female fan her tail feathers out.) 🤔 . . . . Max and I just watched them copulate, so mourning dove babies will soon be in the world! 🙄😀❤ . . . . Scroll to picture three to see Max. He was under the table next to me while the doves were doing their thing. 😄❤ . . . . P.S. I'm sorry that the doves are blurry. I was outside, it was bright, and I tried to focus, but - key word is TRIED. 😕 . . . . #DogsofInstagram #ArizonaFauna #AZfauna #AZmourningdoves #MourningDoves #BookstagramBreak

We have a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake in our wall! Turn on the volume to hear it rattling at us from the house side of the wall. And then turn to the second picture to see the snake from the other side of the wall. 😨 . . . . Both of these images - the video and the photo - are zoomed in. I was standing far enough away to hopefully outrun it safely. 😨 . . . . For the rattle video, the snake is behind the grate you can see. Unfortunately, the next hole in the wall to the right is missing the bottom half of its grate. But I have a bit of wire fencing on top of the ground outside of this hole. (See third picture.) 😨. . . . That fencing is there because Max was determined to dig a hole so big that nothing could hide from him. The rake is (still) there because Max sometimes attempts to dig out something outside of the fencing's area, but still in that corner of our near backyard. 😣 . . . . No Max in this post, unless you have the volume on when the video plays. If you do, you'll be able to hear him whine-barking at Mommy and Grandma to "GET BACK IN HERE WITH ME, WHERE IT'S SAFE" from where he was standing just inside the house, at the door to the near backyard. 😍❤ . . . . And if you're wondering why I call it our "near" backyard, that's because all of the visible land (and some even behind what's visible) beyond the wall, when looking from the house, is our wild backyard. 😀 . . . . But beware, because THERE BE RATTLESNAKES BACK THERE. 😨 . . . . #DogsofInstagram #WhiningDog #ArizonaFauna #WesternDiamondbackRattlesnake !!! #BookstagramBreak

Did I never share these pictures on Instagram? I looked all over and couldn't find them. (I also checked my Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook, with no luck.) 😕 . . . . Anyway, look who visited us in the daytime on February 11, 2018! Two javelina stopped by to nosh on our quail block. 😍 . . . . They didn't steal the quail block, but I don't remember what scared them off before they could. It certainly wasn't my Max, who was barking his head off (see photo two! 😍) 😄 . . . . On that day, I was reading The Cruel Prince by @blackholly, a book that I ended up loving. 😄 (I shared this photo of Max with The Cruel Prince on here. THAT photo I found.) ❤ . . . . Oh, and in the second picture? Only Max was barking. That javelina with the open mouth was chewing. 😉❤ . . . . #DogsofInstagram #bookstagram #HollyBlack #books #TheCruelPrince #series #TheFolkoftheAir #ArizonaFauna #javelina #AZjavelina