Yes, the earthwork around here seems to have stirred up some critters. One snake (the good kind), the first tarantula wasp of the season. Last evening I walked back towards the front door and saw what I guess was a tarantula on the porch, I decided to go in the back door.
It was black, so high off the ground it looked like a transformer toy, the size of a large orange, and that's all the detail I cared to collect.