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| Photo by Mark Stambaugh |
Be Bear Aware, too. The bears have been sighted around here this year. You all know the worse place to be is between a momma bear and her cub. Here's a photo taken last year of a fairly large bear in La Junta Subdivision.
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Other wildlife: A mountain lion was seen Feb/Mar this year around La Junta Subdivision. If you walk early in the morning or in the evening, be especially aware of your surroundings.
Foxes - foxes are a protected game species. When they are having their kits, it is illegal to shoot them because they are out of season, which means you must have a license to kill them anyway. (I only say this because someone shot a fox in Sun Valley last year.) Plus shooting a gun in a subdivision is dangerous - be sure you read the Lincoln County ordinances on shooting in a subdivision.
And we all know the skunks are on a prolific rampage. PLEASE, DO NOT THROW DEAD SKUNKS IN THE COMPACTOR. Eewww!!! You make everyone's life miserable by doing that. Please dispose of elsewhere. (Bury in the Wilderness area or woods that surround us?)
Share your wildlife photos with me so I can post them. Better to shoot through a lens keeping your distance and without causing harm to the wildlife or you.
And if you encounter a fawn lying motionless in the pine needles as I did two evenings ago on my vacant property, LEAVE IT ALONE!
ReplyDeleteDo not do as a neighbor did a few years ago. She assumed the mother had abandoned it. She actually picked it up and brought it home to feed it milk from her refrigerator.
"She sealed that fawn's death warrant," affirmed a Game and Fish official.
Leaving a fawn alone in the woods is how a doe forages. This is natural behavior and the fawn is never abandoned.
If you encounter a fawn, keep walking. Don't stop, talk to it, attempt to feed it or have any interaction with it. Ignore it.
And keep your dog leashed. I witnessed an unleashed dog on a hiking trail attack and kill a hiding fawn.
PLEASE HEED EVIE'S FAWN ADVICE! Once again, DO NOT FEED THE DEER CORN. The fawns cannot metabolize it and they die.
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