A trip to the dump this afternoon, 5.5 miles from my home via mostly dirt roads. The upper view is looking east at 9,396' Sonoma Peak (left of center). The lower view is south along Grass Valley to 9,754' Mount Tobin. Both views were taken a hundred yards from each other.
Yes, they hang around when the quail are back. Good eye!
As an old boy in Southern Oregon once said… nothing wiggles like a sack of cats on the way to the river. While I would not do that, I have no qualms about running the damn things off.
At my mom's house. These are residential deer that live among the houses on the west side of Carson City. Very tolerant of people. Why this one has not shed it's rack, seems late, but the one behind has.
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Sonoma Creek, looking south of west across Grass Valley, about four miles from my home. My wife and I went to the creek to get a truck load of rocks for her landscaping project. The area creeks are high due to the past week of well above normal temps; this is more typical early May snowmelt runoff. Sonoma is a year round flowing creek. Other nearby creeks are running higher, but about a quarter mile above me is a diversion for a local ranch, who has water rights to all he can put down his ditch; normally this section of the creek and beyond is dry except in spring.