Who's in your yard?

I thought you might enjoy seeing some of our African backyard wildlife. Here are two of our visitors. Our Rottweiler, Ellie, drew our attention to both of these guys. We only saw the chameleon once, but had some fun watching him change colors and separately move his eyeballs simultaneously in all directions. The monitor lizard, who is about 3 feet plus the tail, comes around all the time and drives Ellie nuts.

We've also had the occasional monkey, hedgehog, rabbit, and a regular band of banded mongeese who keep the snakes away. Plus scorpions, gorgeous butterflies, and icky slugs and bugs. The strangest thing was finding a fish in our grass when Lake Victoria is about a mile away! How did it get there? Dropped by our permanent hawks who occasionally let half a snack slip their talons. So although we don't see giraffes, elephants, and rhinos wandering around every day, we do get some pretty fun animals to remind us that we're not in America.