Paul continues to bring me beautiful and instructive pictures from my trail cameras, for example, this picture of two whitetail fawns, taken from one of the trail camera videos.

They will soon be as large as their mothers.



Another recent picture is of a particularly husky coyote at the Bear Tree. He doesn't have the usual Coyote markings over his back and shoulders, nor is there a prominent black tip on his tail. All coyotes have a black spot just below the head of the tail as well. This animal may be a Coy-dog, the product of a breeding of a coyote and a dog.

 

Activities at the Bear Tree continue unabated. Lately, there has been a lot of very vigorous scent marking of the tree, mostly by small-to-medium sized black bears, so vigourous in fact that the little tree is in danger of losing more of its lower branches.

A black mother with a brown cub. In most of the range of the Black Bear in North America, black is the color of the species; but here in the west, other shades are  seen, commonly within the same family.

This is one of Paul's favorites, a cow moose in a particularly attractive setting.


While this picture of a mature bull moose is spoiled by back-lighting, I include it just to show that these big fellows are out there. Let's hope that he avoids the hunters, as this is the hunting season.