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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Badger or Kit Fox?

Morning moon
This morning I had Dr. K keep Willow with her near the middle branch arroyo while I headed up to the badger burrows to see if I could find footprints that might identify which critters are using those holes.  I saw some tiny prints that might belong to kit foxes, but I couldn't tell for certain because they were blurred.  From the sheer number of holes (6, within a 20' radius) I'll stick with my first guess:  they're burrows made by badgers.
Willow

This & next 2:  badger burrows or kit fox den (there are 6)?



Our favorite yucca

The rest:  Faxon Yucca in bloom






 

1 comment:

Dr. K said...

Amazing that the Yucca is starting to bloom so early. And the badger dens are fascinating--I wonder if we'll ever get to see one of the badgers.

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