10-18 Wildlife

We enjoy wildlife

During the past 10 years we have camped in all 48 of the lower United States, a large part of this experience has been all the wildlife we have seen. Some in the campgrounds, down the road, on hiking trails and across creeks and rivers, no matter how many times we see wildlife we get excited. One of the state parks in Texas called South Llano River Park is known for the wild turkeys roosting and deer, we have stayed there multiple times. The turkeys and deer graze along side each other, we have spent hours sitting in our chairs watching them. Along our travels we have seen bears, bison, elk, moose, coyotes, deer, fox, big horn sheep, mountain goats and other wildlife. 

Deer bedded down for a nap

Two does and a fawn grazing in the backyard

A fawn walking a long side of the house

A woodpecker enjoying one of our oak trees

Many times we don't have to go far to see wildlife, we just have to look out our back windows. The only fence we have is an Invisible Fence to keep Flo in but it allows other animals and dogs to visit us. We have deer visit us almost every day. They don't appear to be too scared of us, they graze right next to the back porch, when they hear us they just look up and look at us. When they figure out we're not a threat they continue their grazing. The other day a couple deer bedded down for a nap. We've had fawns running around playing. We have seen foxes hanging around the yard. When I use to walk Flo we saw a couple of foxes and we have seen a fox when we work outside. After Larry installed the security camera on the back porch and it started recording we have seen other critters. We have been wondering why our frontyard and backyard were being rutted up so badly. The camera recorded a couple of raccoons walking around the yard where it was rutted up. The camera also recorded another critter a couple of times, we're not sure what it is but we think it is either a opossum or an armadillo. The camera recorded a couple of domestic cats climbing the tree and walking across the yard. People have asked us if we ever getting tired of watching the deer. We always tell them no. I have a little wildlife park in our backyard.