They just kind of amble around aimlessly. They prefer meat like mice and lizards, but I think the bulk of their diet is stuff like crickets. Some people feed them little balls of raw hamburger.
I know they also dine on snakes; they can kill a rattler by avoiding the strike, grabbing it and beating it to death against the rocks. Now, that is something I want to see someday!
Just yesterday I watched on in the backyard have a three-foot faceoff with a chipmunk, but it lost interest and moved on.
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Faceoff with a chipmunk?
Cool!
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Cool!
He's claimed your yard as his territory?