This week has been exciting. While we had friends here from Tucson last Saturday playing a good, hot game of Euchre, the birds outside of our great room/kitchen area were making a big fuss. We went out to see what was going on and saw a huge King (Bull) Snake up in one of the tree branches. The Gila Woodpeckers had babies in their nest and were going crazy. Then we saw a small owl that we looked up in our bird book and saw that it was a Flammulated owl, flying towards the snake and pecking at it. We knew there must be baby owls up in that old tree as well. Well Len got a long rod and poked at the snake and the snake holed up in a old piece of equipment on the old green shed and things settled down. However, the owl never left it's post on another tree. It stayed there for along time. That evening, the noise started all over again, and the owl, woodpeckers and cactus wrens were going crazy again. We saw the snake in the crotch of the tree. Len got a ladder and put gloves on and pulled the snake off the tree and took it to another area on the ranch. A couple of days later, sadly, we found 2 baby owls dead. Here's a picture of the owl and the Snake Catcher. There's nothing he's afraid of......what a man...he's my man..
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