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Damn it. 😠 I put out a new quail block this morning and this afternoon we have MORE javelina in our yard. 😣😡 . . . . I don't think we've ever seen javelina two days in a row before. 😲 . . . . At least this time there's a chance they won't run off with it. New quail blocks are heavy. So I should be able to just watch them and see where they hide this one. 🤔 . . . . Actually, you know what? Since they moved the quail block to the driveway, I went and got our car and drove out there with the horn blaring. So now the quail block is inside our garage. 😊❤ . . . . The javelina are still out there, though. One is sweeping up what the quail block left behind, while others are in the back of what you can see, probably munching on barrel cactus flowers. THOSE they are welcome to eat. 😊 . . . . I probably won't put the quail block out tomorrow. Wednesday will be soon enough, IF the javelina don't come around tomorrow. Or maybe I'll put it out and just bring it back inside early. Javelina don't usually come around until after 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. 🤔🤔🤔 . . . . #BookstagramBreak #AZwildlife #javelina https://www.instagram.com/p/BnSSh83lBuQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19n08fgtez8sy

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