anxcon, nope, it's not that one.

archdruid, unfortunately, that's the one thing we didn't get a good look at.  :(

Miss Nancy, good point about the variations, although I haven't seen a single picture that looks even remotely like it.  And I hadn't thought about crossing the border (LOL!) or an imported escapee.  sigh

I'll keep searching, but I'm sure it'll be back.  Maybe I can get a picture.  But one way or another, we're going to have to get rid of it.  I really don't want to kill it (maybe we can try to trap and release it somewhere else), but between the damn coyotes, foxes, possums, hawks and now snakes, our chickens are almost all gone.  They've completely wiped out our guineas, and we only have one duck left.  The only ones that haven't been killed are the geese and turkeys.

"You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free." - Steppenwolf