Critters spotted:

1. house finches
2. robins
3. ravens (they are seriously large birds, people, holy shit)
4. sparrows (the kind with the striped faces, passer domesticus)
5. northern mockingbirds (the kind with those little white racing stripes on the wings)
6. the giant, creepy-ass turkey vultures are back! (Or, at least one was.)
7. giant grasshoppers! (Probably Melanoplus differentialis.)
8. ugh, earwigs
9. green lacewings, which are actually really pretty insects

“Vulture,” Antoine-Louis Barye, 19th Century