This blog often seems to neglect local mammals in favour of birds. It is merely that birds are interesting, plentiful, seasonally variable and easily seen. Mammals are not seen with the same frequency. Yet, here are four species seen yesterday.
Now and then I watch a couple of White-tailed Deer grazing alongside my driveway. This doe was chary, but unmoved by my presence. Could such behaviour and observations have led to the term, doe eyes?
Common in areas somewhat protected from predators such a coyotes, is the Columbian Ground Squirrel.
Less common in the West Kootenay, but always fun to see is the moose. It looks as if this one is the mother,
and this one is last year’s calf.
Then there were the Bighorn Sheep. I believe each of these two pictures show females.
That first sheep looks like she has an attitude.
Larry, although she was feasting along the edge of a man-made highway, she seemed to view the people using the road as an imposition.
Definitely the “awww” factor in the doe picture…real emotion evoked there…..lovely!