After several weeks of mostly dry weather, the rains are expected to return in mid-February.

Of the midsized omnivores, we photographed one raccoon, a couple of skunks, and a good number of opossums. Heading into the spring tick season,
we rejoice at seeing opossums, which we understand eat a huge number of ticks.

We very much want to believe that the opossum moves through the forest and meadow like a dustmop, picking up hundreds of questing ticks on its fur,
then periodically stops to groom itself like a cat, eating all the crawlers.

Of the larger predators, we saw no mountain lions this month. but this coyote was photographed on the upper meadow.
We have seen this beautiful reddish animal before, or one like it.

And numerous bobcat sightings, as usual. Here is a still photo and video of a bobcat using the creek as a trail to move up the mountain.

Deer are plentiful as usual. Juveniles and does predominantly browse in this upper mountain meadow at night, and bucks during the day.
This strong-looking buck will be shedding its antlers soon.

The large, tusked, feral boar was seen in the same meadow. It was the only feral hog photographed this month.

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