Excellent word pictures! We have two homes in very different climate zones, so I can add gopher, constrictor, and green snakes, bees and wasps, red foxes, autonomous dogs, skunks, frogs, crabs, bats, grasshoppers of many types, centipedes, and hawks that excite our dogs.
Living in rural México is like living in a zoo! Or maybe just a reminder that we share the planet with many different species.
Speaking of scorpions, one of our dogs is a scorpion killer!
Oh I know, there is a whole army of insects during the day, it's amazing, and I have even had a fox here too, just once. Frogs in the pond of course, and cicadas that make such a racket, squirrels everywhere. All wonderful stuff.
So wonderful your dog is a scorpion killer, brilliant. I have a friend whose dog used to eat them!
Another entertaining peek into the critters who share your life and garden, a vivid one! I love the gecko patrol. As a girl my family would visit Bahia San Carlos near Guaymas on the Sea of Cortez. I remember having to shake out shoes before putting them out because the scorpions liked to hide in them. We were focused on the underwater creatures and there were beauties.
You are so right, the critters are part of the package when you live in Mexico. In my neck of the wood we have a lot of the same ones you do. We do NOT have the ring-tailed cats (so jealous!) but we do have the cute and naughty coatimundis. We also have armadillos, iguanas, coyotes, skunks, lots of day and night snakes (nocturnal snakes are a thing here), and peccaries. For cats we have jaguars and jaguarundis, but I haven't been lucky enough to see either. Oh, and lots of bats and birds. We have lots of geckos, but we still have lots of scorpions, so I ask a guy to spray once a month. I hate doing it because it also kills the walking sticks and praying mantises which I love, but I'm terrified of scorpions inside the house. I'm almost to live-and-let live if I see one outside, though.
You have an amazing array of animals where you are, jaguars for example, that is extraordinary, but none here. Coatis yes but in Tepoztlan up the road, iguanas we do have but not the normal little lizards because the cats eat them... skunks we used to have... Bats and a myriad birds always.
Between us we live in a zoo! Marvellous and wonderful.
Excellent word pictures! We have two homes in very different climate zones, so I can add gopher, constrictor, and green snakes, bees and wasps, red foxes, autonomous dogs, skunks, frogs, crabs, bats, grasshoppers of many types, centipedes, and hawks that excite our dogs.
Living in rural México is like living in a zoo! Or maybe just a reminder that we share the planet with many different species.
Speaking of scorpions, one of our dogs is a scorpion killer!
Oh I know, there is a whole army of insects during the day, it's amazing, and I have even had a fox here too, just once. Frogs in the pond of course, and cicadas that make such a racket, squirrels everywhere. All wonderful stuff.
So wonderful your dog is a scorpion killer, brilliant. I have a friend whose dog used to eat them!
Thank you so much for commenting.
Another entertaining peek into the critters who share your life and garden, a vivid one! I love the gecko patrol. As a girl my family would visit Bahia San Carlos near Guaymas on the Sea of Cortez. I remember having to shake out shoes before putting them out because the scorpions liked to hide in them. We were focused on the underwater creatures and there were beauties.
Thank you Leslie and yes, scorpions feature in all Mexican adventures, that’s for sure.
You are so right, the critters are part of the package when you live in Mexico. In my neck of the wood we have a lot of the same ones you do. We do NOT have the ring-tailed cats (so jealous!) but we do have the cute and naughty coatimundis. We also have armadillos, iguanas, coyotes, skunks, lots of day and night snakes (nocturnal snakes are a thing here), and peccaries. For cats we have jaguars and jaguarundis, but I haven't been lucky enough to see either. Oh, and lots of bats and birds. We have lots of geckos, but we still have lots of scorpions, so I ask a guy to spray once a month. I hate doing it because it also kills the walking sticks and praying mantises which I love, but I'm terrified of scorpions inside the house. I'm almost to live-and-let live if I see one outside, though.
You have an amazing array of animals where you are, jaguars for example, that is extraordinary, but none here. Coatis yes but in Tepoztlan up the road, iguanas we do have but not the normal little lizards because the cats eat them... skunks we used to have... Bats and a myriad birds always.
Between us we live in a zoo! Marvellous and wonderful.
You really don’t want to know what thy are up to while you sleep.
haha yes you're right, ignorance is bliss.