Our Animal Neighbors

Today we are having a respite from the monsoons. Last week we had three days of heavy rain. The desert has turned green and the saguaros in particular are looking rather plump. With summer and the rain has also come a great number of bugs--at our house LOTS of crickets. Today Dave vacumned the patios of all the tree litter in the patio grooves and then sprayed insecticide. The crickets are dying, but an added consequence was that a thrasher and a desert toad decided to come feast on the bugs. While he was out doing the cleaning he saw a tortoise and roadrunner. So the pictured wildlife was all from today at our house.