Recent visitors to the yard include the springtime duckie babes

and something I’ve never encountered before, a red-eared pond slider. This creature was walking arcross our patio and at first I thought our desert tortoise had escaped. Battle scarred and big, this guy eventually plopped itself into the lake and swam off. Then we noticed bloody claw prints on the flagstone all along the gate to our tortoise. You can see where the blood is from in the pic of his underneaths, check those toes). Wonder if turtle and tortoise were telepathically hooking up for a prison break…

And finally got some pics of my sisters cat Hooligan, he’s hyper to the point of impossible to photograph but I managed some noisy low light snaps. Nancy will be happy.

“going to the river gonna get me a frog yeah”
What the heck kind of frog is this? I’ve scoured the internet to ID this fellow, can’t do it.
It’s a big frog, at least 8 inches from nose to butt. Haven’t heard its voice yet. It’s in the pond out back seen in my other photos (north Phoenix AZ).
If you can ID it please post a comment, I’m curious whether this is a local or a release pet or an alien from another planet.