Friday, April 13, 2012

April 13, 2012 The Mountain Lion

I had to interrupt Tales from the Coop to post the photo of this very healthy-looking mountain lion that graced our property on Tuesday, April 10th.  Hubby Steve has suspended his 7 am 2 mile walk to the main road and back because the cougar is out and about early mornings. The photo was taken by our trail camera at 4:30 am! The camera is hooked on a tree between our main gate to the house and one of the gates that leads to the chicken complex, barn+water+tank+olive tree area. Since we are surrounded by state lands and large vineyards, it's no wonder we have such wildlife, but this is wayyyy to close to home.

The second photo is of a bobcat, a little scrawny....No free chicken dinners for you, bub!









We're pretty sure the chickens are safe in their coop-pen with the way it's built, now we just worry about us humans. But, I think the mountain lion has plenty of other food sources besides the Chianellos! Plenty of deer, turkeys [do they eat turkeys?], rabbits, raccoons, rats and mice, foxes [hummm?].

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