Awesome post. I have a story about Pete the one-legged roadrunner from my youth in the Texas panhandle that I will have to tell sometime ha ha I have never seen a copper head but don't really regret that. Interesting that as housing picks up again in California, we are seeing lots of wildlife. I think some displaced and some just concentrated into their shrinking habitat. Most unique I think was a badger. I had never seen a badger in the wild.