It's not all sunrises and shooting stars...

Since the vast majority of our runs have been morning runs, we typically get to run in both dark and light.  We start out under the stars, witness a sunrise, and end in the early morning light.  We have seen up to a half dozen shooting stars in one run.  We admire the way the sun streaks through the clouds.  We've seen rainbows and full moons,  and listened to the howling of the coyotes.

But it's not all sunrises and shooting stars.

Here is a list of some other things seen on our runs:

snakes
scorpions
quail
roadrunners
deer
cats
dogs
squirrels
tarantulas
frogs/toads
lizards
cows
rabbits
peacocks
skunk
mice
millipede
sheep
owls

Heather and Ryan, have I missed anything?

Some notes:

One run I saw 9 lizards in four miles.
The skunk was WAY too close for comfort.  We had to literally stop in our tracks and wait until it retreated, tail pointed to the sky, into an irrigation ditch.  Phew!
The deer nearly caused us to wet our pants when it startled out of the high brush in the fields one dark morning.
I literally stepped on the tiny scorpion, but he was too small to sting me through my shoe.
Both Heather and I nearly stepped on a tarantula on one long run along the marathon route.
Little field mice kept peeking out of the grass to investigate our flashlight beams.
Cats eyes look super creepy when you just catch them in the beam of your light for a second.
Ryan rescued a toad from certain death in the middle of the road.
Peacocks sound like children screaming.
A millipede looks super eerie the way it moves across the ground.