u/Dr-Alec-Holland

A sleepy parent dealing with lots of wind. Gotta rest those claws.

Red headed stepchild, mom, dad, son

Stumbled on this dude while working in my yard. Tried to keep my distance, the close up is 8x zoom on the new Iphone, but even so it still headed right for a hole. Is that probably where it lives?

If so… I’m putting up a western fence to keep the neighbors dog out of my yard, I will plan to leave space down low for this guy to navigate through it and I’ll keep the posts really far from the hole for now. I am adding welded wire fencing with t posts but was planning on some less restrictive bare wire sections for smaller animals to pass through and I am keeping lanes for javelina, bobcats, foxes, deer, and coyotes on the property as well.

Gemini tells me it’s a bad idea to leave this guy a gift of eggs. So I’ll just stay out of it I guess except maybe place a camera.

Early morning surprise! Wild ~~tarantula~~ huntsman was probably hunting around the topper sleeves the night before.

Edit: Thanks for the corrections everybody. Never seen a huntsman before - crazy how big they are!