December 2023 Wildlife photos


Blacktail buck crosses Adobe Creek in the lower Lafferty Ranch area.  Doe and fawn using the same path.

Buck crossing Adobe Creek
Doe and fawn crossing creek



Mountain lion (cougar, puma) using the same deer path at night.  Unlike the others we have photographed, this one appears to have a tracking collar.

Mountain lion at night



Several images of bobcats on various days in early December, from the same camera near the middle of the Lafferty Ranch parcel.

Bobcat on a tree trunk
Bobact facing cameraBobcat descending tree trunk


Grey squirrel on the same tree trunk the bobcats use. This is the first squirrel our cameras have picked up.

Squirrel on tree trunk


Coyotes in the upper meadow.  Two different individuals (the second seems lighter colored), taken six days apart.

Coyote crossing meadow Coyote in upper meadow


Raccoons on a rainy December day.

Two raccoons on a rainy day
 


Skunk at night.

Skunk at night


Buck jumping a fence at night.

Buck jumping a fence


Another buck, or possibly the same one, after one of its antlers has been shed (normal in winter).

Buck with one shed antler


No feral pigs were photographed in this early December 2023 period.