Baby Scorpions Are Cute.... and other wildlife adventures

The wildlife was abundant and active this time out to the land.  It's the tail end of spring, so there were baby everythings gamboling about: 

calves

wild mustang foals

baby antelope that look like a bundle of sticks and a lone juvi scorpion that the wife unearthed while digging the hole for the blackwater botanical cell.  At first we thought it was one of those funky termite-looking bug friends - then it flipped it's little tail and brought out the stinger and pinchers.  Unfortunately, since he was only about 3/4 of an inch long, the effect was not what he intended.

Also.... did you know that antelope vocalize?  There was a buck on our property for most of the weekend making the most godawful racket.  He sounded like a mashup between a raven cawing and a cat being put in a woodchipper.  Freaky at 11pm, especially when it's a counterpoint to coyotes yipping and hollering.  We think he was looking for his harem of girls, but we really weren't sure since he just kept staring at us.  (And we sure don't look like antelope girls!)