Wildlife Encounters

This morning, Larry called me downstairs to view an unexpected overnight guest:

Leopard slug - 4-5 inches long - crawling in my kitchen

And the other day, the very curious kookaburra in our backyard got as close as he could to give us the onceover.

Yes, that's him sitting on the corner railing of our upstairs deck.  This is right after he bashed a dead rodent against the ground to eat it and right before he knocked another kookaburra off "his" branch in the tree they like to sit on.