Creatures at Choke Canyon State Park

The animals and birds at Choke Canyon are just amazing. A slow day is seeing only 5 deer. Sometimes we see 6 rabbits along a single trail. We’ve heard a Great Horned Owl.  We've seen armadillos, Audubon Orioles, juvenile Ibis, road runner, and Mexican Eagles (Crested Caracara). John saw a couple of coyotes plus we hear them at night. Oh, and John saw these turkeys and a deer along the road.

 There were 12 javelinas (collared peccary) that walked through our campsite that included 2 babies. I was trying to get a little closer to one of the big ones to get a better picture when he started moving towards me in a menacing manner (or that’s what I figured). I ran! But here’s a picture with John and one of these visitors.

   

The absolutely coolest visit was a bobcat walking through our campsite. Maybe “sauntered though” is a better term. It looked calm as if it owned the place like a cat does. The problem is that by the time you see it, realize how cool it is, and grab your camera, it’s already in the trees. However, a few days later a bigger bobcat came by and John got these terrific pictures.

We’ve seen all kinds of birds. A regular visitor is a Western Kingbird that shows up at our RV. Which sounds nice except that it goes to the back window and flutters and pecks, then to the side window and flutters and pecks, then to the front…., and then to the car windows. Then it does it all again maybe 15-30 minutes later. Oh, and it leaves “presents” dripping down the sides of our windows!