Pacific Northwest Gardening: Fauna of the NW, 1 by msantique

msantique wrote:
WoW Annie that gave me shivers! They are beautiful - in a PHOTO or on TV. Not in the yard. At the bottom of the hill on the main road is Cougar Flat Grange. I've heard it was named that cause we had cougars around. I've never seen one and hope not to. Hearing the dog bark one night and opening the drapes and peeking out to see an opossum (?) staring at me from the deck was creepy enough!!! Gutsy little nut coming right onto the deck and staring at me! We hear coyotes all the time at night and I have seen them along the road by our house and they always seem to make eye contact that gives me an uneasy feeling. Speaking of night sounds - love to hear a 'choir' of frogs. I'm always asking the grandkids or hubby when we're driving if they heard the choir we just passed by. We do have lots of elk around here. Luckily they don't stomp through our place destroying everything in site but we have watched them from the deck window behind the house and they've crossed in front of our driveway. Going to towns in either direction I can usually see a herd. Here's a couple of young ones I took pics of the other day in a herd.