douglasriverside's Identifications

Commandeered a roadkill raccoon from three turkey vultures.

Species is Crested Caracara (caracara plancus) due to recent taxonomic change.
References:

The Sixty-second Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds 29 June 2021
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The South American Classification Committee to treat Caracara cheriway as conspecific with Caracara plancus (Proposal 878; 13 Dec 2020)

Adding an old observation of a western fence lizard that was found outside my back door, with its tail present but separated and, apparently, covered in yellow paint. I have no idea where the yellow paint came from and there was no paint trail. My best guess is that it walked across fresh road paint and was picked up, then dropped, by a bird.