During our trip to Denver i managed to get a real good pic of a bird while we were wrapping up a quick mini-hike/walk to the Red Rocks Amphitheater. According to the hallucinating robots it is an American Robin. But i basically saw the bird, stopped to see if i could take a good pic of it using my telephoto on my phone but was worried that i would scare it away. I kinda did but it was still somewhat close enough for the telephoto to do its thing, and my lingering trying to get a picture seemed to pique its curiosity. In the pictures you can somewhat see how the bird is carefully hopping towards me to check me out, would’ve taken more but my partner was tired and wanted to leave 
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It was probably a carpenter bee. I saw one lazily meander across my back deck yesterday. I gotta say, I am not ready for it to be 85F. Today was much more comfortable at 77F.
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The robots are right for once. That is indeed a Robin.
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been in the 80s(F) for a few weeks here.
starting to see some bees in my garden.
the bees, not the sudden temperature rise, make me happy.
we need bees.
right now in the keys, we need rain!
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walked into the printshop to find this lil feller hanging out on the cutter table:
i don’t want to leave him inside the shop where he’ll get hungry and thirsty and then die in there and i won’t know until i sweep his little mummified corpse out from under the press.
do not want that.
he was easily coaxed onto a roll of paper towels and relocated to a plant on the porch:
he’ll be happier there.
lovely markings on the back. i believe him to be a Cuban brown anole. we have hundreds of them in the yard and i don’t want to miss a single one!
edit:
the grid marks on the table are half inch squares. he appears to be around 5inches/ 12.7cm, nose-to-tailtip.
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Jolly decent of the fella to align himself on a scale for ease of measurement.
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the lizards in the banana tree are big and scary to this little guy.
no banana for reference.
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I’m not sure one like this is available in Canada, but if you are only using it around your house, one that stores the images on an SD should be cheaper. Got it off Amazon
We have this one: Amazon.com: WOSPORTS Mini Trail Camera 24MP 1080P Game Hunting Camera with Night Vision Deer Camera for Wildlife Monitoring Hunting : Sports & Outdoors
@Axolotl clever bun!
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Thanks! I’ll check it out.
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One of the many Australian creatures that will kill you?
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Rule of thumb for Australian animals. If it has a name, it can kill you.
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I left the gate to my yard open last night and a predator got in (skunk or raccoon I’d guess). It ravaged the bunny nest and took at least two of the baby bunnies. There are still some alive in the nest but I don’t know if the mother will return to the nest. She’s still in my back yard though.
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Oh no!!! 
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If it hasn’t got a name, it can kill you really quickly.
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They definitely can, but since the antivenom it”s pretty rare. Wikipedia’s List of fatal snake bites in Australia* says the last Tiger snake death was 2020, and a cursory pass over the list suggests Tigers are second to Eastern Brown snakes for fatalities. Since 2000 the average is less than two snake bite fatalities a year so snakes are not nearly as dangerous as, say, being on the road (~1200 fatalities pa).
*ok, so obviously not that rare.
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