Category Archives: mammals

  Off a road that joins two of the three ends of the Lake, there is a colony of Bighorn Sheep. Nine females and last summer’s children were grazing on the apparently barren surface. Although the surface looked barren, the … Continue reading →

  Derek Kite provided me with a shot of a coyote taken at the Blaylock beach yesterday. This was one of three travelling along the shore. On the strength of his observation, I went back and looked at my various … Continue reading →

  It has been about seven years since we last had a flurry of observations of the Snowshoe Hare. Maybe it is enough that the numbers are starting to come up again. I have seen tracks and now Derek Kite … Continue reading →

  White-tailed deer can bound; mule deer can bound, but can also stot. The bound is a variation of the gallop, but the hind and front legs act together rather than individually. The bound, the gallup, and the stot are … Continue reading →

  You would think that any self-resecting bear would have bedded down for the season. But, no, despite it being mid-November and snowing, for a half hour around midnight last night, I was kept awake by two black bears foraging … Continue reading →

  My home is equipped with bird feeders: three, sometimes four, of them. Recently, they have been vanishing. We have feeder thieves.  Now, I am not talking about interlopers, such as squirrels, that merely steal the contents. I am talking … Continue reading →

  White-tailed bucks experience rising levels of testosterone in the fall and this leads to the rut, a gathering in November where bucks challenge one another for access to does.  I have not witnessed the head butting and mating of … Continue reading →