California Critters

[labingi]

Since arriving at my parents' house to help them with their move to Oregon, it is as if the wildlife were flocking about me to say their farewells. In the past three days, I've met (outside of the everyday wildlife sightings):

* a doe with two fawns
* the same skunk twice
* two toads
* a small, brown snake
* a large fence lizard in the dining room
* a Stellar's jay
* a flock of turkeys with two sets of babies (one half grown, one newly hatched)
* a quail
* a very small tick
* Ally the Alligator Lizard, who is rooming with me in the yurt and left me a present of his shed skin today.