January has been mostly dry, with the ground still soaked from earlier rains.
Skunks become very active in their winter/spring mating season and were seen on all four cameras.
Great Horned Owls are a main predator of skunks. Here is one at the same
Adobe Creek crossing in a still photo and a video,
You can see the owl rotate its head over 300 degrees before drinking water
from the creek.
Also plenty of blacktail deer at the creek crossing, and elsewhere.
Here a still of a fawn in afternoon lighting, and several short videos of
does and fawns at the same spot spliced together.
Gray fox at night.
Opossum on the hillside forest trail. Are young oppossums clinging to the fur, or is it matted from rain?
Bobcat on the same trail. In the video, after it leaves the picture, it kicks dirt clods across the trail. Digging, or leaping?
This handsome blacktail buck was photographed on December 30, when most
bucks have already shed their antlers.
In this still photo and video, a redtail hawk appears to be clutching a prey animal in the grass.
Two images of a coyote (possibly the same one) on the upper mountain.
No mountain lions or feral hogs were photographed this month. We did see evidence of hog sign and rooting on the upper mountain.
