A common site here in Pringle Bay!!

The Baboon troops try to break into the houses to scavenge food. They are protected here because there are only around two troops in the area.

I was unlocking my front door when something at eye level in my peripheral vision made me jump. A treefrog had taken up residence in my mailbox, which was a good five feet off the porch and an additional six feet off the ground. Since it's right below my porch light, I guessed he found his odds of catching dinner improved in the chill of late fall by moving into the mailbox and waiting for the light to come on.He was peeping out the hole like it was the most natural thing in the world.

After a half hour or so of not seeming to mind me at all, he withdrew into the safety of the mailbox. Later, when I was leaving, I peered in the box and he was gone. I've seen no sign of him since.

The wife came out of the house one morning and was looking for the cat. She noticed a crowd of neighbors across the street with cameras. They warned her about the alligator before she got to the car and she promptly joined them across the street. The alligator continued to cross several other yards before settling into a nearby pond. We would see him there for several years sunning himself on the banks of his new home.

From then on we always checked under the car before getting into it. The cat showed up several hours later and his hair was all white! Of course his hair was all white even before that time. :)

This was a pretty peculiar sighting as one of the two pigeons was taking a bath and the other one was waiting for the first one and hurrying it to finish. This looked as many of those boyfriend, girlfriend relationships and one of them delaying the other before going out. The bathing dove didn't want out of the water probably because it must have been refreshing in the summer heat of that day.

There seems to be some confusion about the common naming of this species; depending if you are in North America or Europe they are called interchangeably with another. The moose is the largest deer type mammal in the Americas, the elk is the second. Wikipedia makes a good job at differentiating and explaining this large and beautiful animal. My wife and I took this picture at the beginning of this summer in the Jasper National Park.

I found this bird blending in with the fantastic architecture of the Castle of the Nazari Sultans in the Garden of the Lions (Palacios Nazaries Patio de los Leones) in Granada, Spain.

I am sure my neighbor didn't appreciate the flash on my camera flashing like crazy over and over almost at midnight, but I couldn't pass the opportunity to photograph what might be an albino anole. In any case, I went back to my computer to check if such a thing was a rare find and came with this recent forum post from Kingsnake forum where somebody also took pictures. After reading the post I hurried back and tried to catch it, but the thing ran into some bushes and became out of reach. I wouldn't normally run around in pajamas with a bottomless plastic 2 liter coke bottle and a broom but in my mind this might have been worth it. The bad thing is that the lizard might be so scared that it might never return.

It is always interesting to find wild life such as carnivorous mammalian predators in urban areas. This small family Foxes were camping in Breckenridge's Main Street. At the time we got there, there was already a small crowd of people taking people and pointing at the small family of foxes not bothered at all about the tourist chatter and invasion of their privacy.

After reading a bit about these interesting mammals, I came to realize that they are kind of a usual sighting since they share a similar urban habitat with raccoons. A very interesting page dedicated to urban foxes, their ecology, behavior, and diet can be found in this page by foxes.org

It was just interesting to see a bird just on the hand of Christopher Columbus. It looks as if Columbus is pointing at something and the bird is looking that way.