We had a rattle snake in our pool once. It ended up in the skimmer basket, so I got a shock as I opened it to clean out leaves. It was when our home was still the last house on the desert. My husband managed to get it coiled around a rake and carried it off into the desert again.
Here is a neat site recording the lovebirds we see in Phx.
http://www.mirror-pole.com/col...
