If you pushed a little more dirt on top of it, it'd be less noticeable to raccoons and such. Raccoons love to dig up lizard and turtle eggs.

Then again, raccoons have to eat, too.

The hole was pretty invisible when I left. I bet the rain smoothed it the rest of the way.

The raccoons eat so many turtle eggs it's surprising there are any eggs left for turtles to hatch out of. I haven't seen any evidence of them eating lizard eggs yet, but I'll keep an eye out.

Did you hear that there's a mountain lion around? I told G to watch for it. Last fall I found a giant paw print at the end of the driveway. Now I wonder...

Heard that on the news. I knew mountain lions were still around in the Hill Country west of Austin, but as those canyon-y areas get developed, the lions have to move *somewhere*. Richard would love to have one on our place (part time--we don't have the resources for it full time and really there's not enough cover around us.) I'd rather have a bobcat...we don't have enough resources for one of those full time, even, but there has been one using the creek-corridor off and on. I've found bobcat tracks and heard one once.

The one I heard about in our county was well away from where you are, but riparian corridors do attract wildlife, as you know.

Folks who live around my land say there's a bobcat in the area. They also say there are some alligators. I don't know if it's true. But when I was a hitchhiker I learned to take all warnings seriously the morning I went to sit down on a log by my campsite and it swam away.

Tonight a woman at the Y said she had encountered a mountain lion in Colorado. She'd been up on a mountain with her infant son and was getting ready to leave. She put the kid in a baby backpack and was gathering her stuff when she looked up in a tree and saw a mountain lion looking down at her. So she picked up her kid and backed down the trail.