Late Spring has featured lovely mild weather. We're seeing plenty of blacktail deer fawns, as in this photo and video.
In this video, we see a different fawn, a bit older I believe, with its
mother and young male.
Despite the proximity to Father's Day, I don't believe he is the father of
fawn, as blacktail does
seem to raise their fawns alone.
Another ID exercise. What the heck is this?
At first I thought it was a deer falling head over heels down the creek
embankment.
But no, it is a great blue heron, probably the same one from recent
months, coming in for a landing.
This is the only shot captured, as it swooped through the frame and landed
upstream.
The populations of the smaller mammals seem to fluctuate seasonally. A
few months ago, we saw many skunks and few opossums.
This month we see the opposite, as in this photo and video of a (Virginia)
opossum.
The opossum is the most purely nocturnal animal here. We have never
captured a daytime photo of one.
Bobcat moving through the tall grass on the hillside forest trail. Still photo and video. Nice ear tufts!
A bit blurry, but this is an owl swooping down on prey in the grass.
I am surprised to see it attacking beak first, rather than talons first.
No mountain lions were seen this month. No feral hogs either, but we did see fresh hog sign.
