A month ago, I was too slow to capture a photo of a bear and her cub at the far end of our property. With two “huh! huh!” sounds, she took off up the draw. On that very day, I was not too slow to spot a bear skull further along in the hike. It was a heckuva day.
A newly installed game camera did capture the Black Bear (cinnamon subspecies) with TWO cubs in the same draw. Truth be 
told, I lured them with a tub of water (which I freshen every four days or so). I’m hoping to encourage them to stay off the ridge which climbs 700 feet directly behind us. There lives a less-than-bear-friendly home owner who probably shot the bear whose skull I discovered because it “threatened” his livestock. Shit happens. As with the human-to-human, human-to-wildlife interactions too often end with gunfire ’round here.
Here’s the Species Parade, 60 species, including my first sighting of a Greater Roadrunner. It was hanging out on the flat roof of an abandoned gas station, south of Moab, Utah. He considered me like its cartoon equivalent considered Wile E. Coyote: with interest, then peeling out.
Mammals:
Black Bear (cinnamon)
Coyote
Mule Deer
Cottontail Rabbit
Brush Mouse
Pocket Gopher
Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel
Rock Squirrel
Prairie Dog
Skunk
Raccoon
Antelope
Elk
Chipmunk
Abert’s Squirrel
Birds:
Rufous Hummingbird
Broad Tailed Hummingbird
Yellow Warbler
Indigo Bunting
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Cedar Waxwing
Hermit Thrush
House Wren
Kingfisher
Brewer’s Blackbird
Black-headed Grosbeak
Chipping Sparrow
Say’s Phoebe
Downy Woodpecker
Nuthatch
House Sparrow
Red-Winged Black Bird
Canada Goose
Mallard
Greater Roadrunner
Townsend’s Solitaire
Red Shafted Flicker
Steller’s Jay
Black Capped Chickadee
American Crow
Common Raven
Scrub Jay
Magpie
Turkey
Great Blue Heron
Dark-Eyed Junco (and its many varieties)
Ringed Turtle Dove
Rock Dove
Meadowlark
Mountain Bluebird
Western Bluebird
American Kestrel
Turkey Vulture
Red-Tailed Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Starling
American Robin
Great Horned Owl
Rufous Sided Towhee
Western Tanager
Northern Oriole
Great pics!