All about the animals - we've seen elk mommies & babies every day and they have massed back up together. Unfortunately, the elk are so shy & protective of their babies that we can only look at them at a distance through the binoculars - never are the babies close enough for a photo. It's been amazing to watch, a couple nights ago there were twenty elk and 10 babies, bouncing around chasing each other. They were all over the caves, for those of you who know where those are. And soon, if last year is any indication, at some preordained magical moment the whole group take their babies and disappear for higher ground. (Star Mt. appears to be high enough to me,but I don't speak elk to argue).
The deer are everywhere now and soon it's their turn for babies. Mark put out a salt lick within the fence, and there they were this morning - we think this is one of the mommies with twins from last summer. We seem to jump deer every morning walking (see - I know terms, be impressed) and scare the grouse as well. Pretty sure there are nests with babies around hidden in the ferns. The photo of the male trying to scare me away with his "eye" is a big clue.
Speaking of nests, we walked in our woods and came across a red tail hawk nest high up in the aspen. We were trying to be quiet, but there was a hawk on the nest who, startled, sounded a piercing alarm all through the woods. The deer & elk were alerted, oh well.
Water levels in the rivers are finally coming down from the spring runoff, so mark is itching to go fishing again. We had a cold rainy couple of days and a new layer of snow appeared on the mountains. We needed the rain - we've been hand watering all the baby trees (there are already casualties by the way). Wonder how many out of the 60 will make it...
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