Dangerous visitor this morning… cousin came back tonite

[LyleW]

Yikes!

[Gary Brantley]

At a place where you actually HAVE 4 seasons. I long for the days to be able to witness things like that again Gary.

Here in Corpus there are only two seasons: 1.) Summer and 2.) Almost Summer

You forgot two others; football season and deer season, although those two do overlap each year.

[Gary Brantley]

Is that a badger? Vicious looking beastie he is.

[Stikpusher]

[jelliott523]

Is that a badger? Vicious looking beastie he is.

Yep, Taxidia Taxus, American Badger...he was a little bit ticked off. I think I scared him as much as he scared me. Not as easy to step on or poison as the scorpion Stik had.

[tempestjohnny]

The biggest issue we're having in these parts is the pythons. A 15 footer was just caught about 3 miles from my house

[LyleW]

Can you even eat the meat? One would last a while

[Stuart]

The biggest issue we're having in these parts is the pythons. A 15 footer was just caught about 3 miles from my house

Bollocks to that, I sodding well hate snakes and bloody scorpions!

I'd rather live in an area with large predators like bears, big cats and wolves than those bastards at least you can see them coming!

That American Badger is cool.

[KSaarni]

Just happened to glance out the slider this morning and saw one of our dogs nose to nose with this critter on the back patio… had to get her away from it double quick before she learned they are not friendly the hard way!

Oh my!

And I haven't even seen a Scorpion live ever

- Kari

[Stikpusher]

Kari, you might want to change that… the Scorps put on a great concert live!

Oh you are referring to the critter? In all honesty, I haven’t seen too many live here. Quite a few dead ones due to our pest control measures. They are primarily nocturnal hunters unless you disturb their daytime hide sites, so that was quite a surprise to see this one out in the open after sunrise.