The photo above & below are from the javelina that visited nearby last year. Of course the camera has zoom, but the photos are from the same camera. I remember last year's critter as being larger than the one I saw this week...
Not that I am getting really close and doing any measuring! Residents have seen a family of five marauding together; papa, mama, two yearlings, and a little one.
The desert has had very little rain, so I think the critters are entering the resort looking for food as they share the desert pasture with cattle. I certainly am not going to supplement their diet if I can help it! I do know our site seems to be one of their pathways, like cow paths in a pasture. We just have not had them bother the feeders or bird bath in the past and those items have been there for 3 winters. Oh well...no real harm so far...
It's like the deer that walk through our yard. We don't notice most of the time; only when they eat leaves or scrape bark from young trees. The rabbits are in the same category this winter.
ReplyDeleteWe very rarely see them, just their damage.