Mookie’s puppies at 7 weeks

Appetizers-Rocky Mountain Oysters

Pruning Time

Wild boars damage vineyard

Tags

Food, Nature

Here’s two big critters we harvested and eventually ate. They were too big (gamey) for hams, straps, etc. but made wonderful sausage.

Winter California Desert

Vultures observing sheep birthing

Marsh Cibola Refuge Arizona

Sunset Palo Verde Peak

Chloride near Amboy Crater

Wild Pig Rootings

After a couple of years absence the pigs are back. I found this rooting today close to the vineyard. They really rip it up. Our neighbor has sod near his pool and his property is under constant assault.

Buster the chocolate lab

Here’s Buster at 2,4, and 6 weeks.

Great Horned Owl – Bubo virginianus pacificus

More Whalebone critters-Ali found this bird injured and transported it to a shelter.

Mookie post partum vs. Black Tail Deer

On our morning walk this deer out of nowhere attacked our two week post partum Mookie. She is trained not to chase cows, deer, etc. so momentarily was taken back. She proceeded to ram her head into it’s side sending it tumbling down the hillside. In retrospect I think the deer was suffering from a wasting disease.

Pacific Gopher Snake #2

This guy was under the same piece of wood as the king snake.