Golden meadows, crystal clear starry nights, and animals afoot

It's all about the animals. Changes of behavior are a precursor to full blown fall. We are edging ever closer to freezing temps - soon...

The deer are active munching away at the grass that's left. All are turning gray by the minute. Flap and twins have been around most days. The little girl has turned gray, but little boy and Flap have not.

The ever curious Flap

Newsflash - our neighbor Glenn on "our" side of Star Mt. saw a mountain lion running across the road close to his house. Wow, keeping a sharp eye out.

A new found area just outside the city limits while searching for a gun sighting in area. Hunting term- for Mark, not me. Anyway, looks like we're back in the 1800's don't you think?

hawk perched on our gate

Mommy and baby great horned owl- these looked much scarier than "ours".

Birds are out and about, although the hummingbirds are all but gone. And Penny and Granddaddy's deck feeding of the ground squirrel was apparently his goodbye meal. No ground squirrels just little chippies still around.

big coyote watching me on my hike

On the continuing animal front, we are minus one rather nasty packrat. It appears to be the only one, thank goodness. A friend's live trap did the trick...
And Mark is meeting with professional trappers as I write, as the beavers on the creek have not gone away despite Mark's efforts to break up their dam building blocking the headgate.

The elk are more visible now, although they haven't shown back up at Star Mt. yet. And no more bear sightings to date, but they are around and voraciously eating to bulk up for winter. Still lots of time to see one or another, in Mark's case.