Spring has been showing up in Estes Park.  New birds are arriving daily and the chipmunks are emerging from their dens.  Apparently, so are the bears!  We caught one on our trail camera on Monday. Time to bring in the bird feeders!

While our destination was Sprague Lake, we decided to stop at the Moraine Park pull-off on Bear Lake Rd to see if we could find a coyote.  The weather was dark and overcast, but we saw one in the distance.  How cool is that?  Then, on the way back, we stopped again and got to watch one hunting. He started with a tasty Wyoming Ground Squirrel and ended 20 minutes later with a vole.  Click on images to read the captions and hear the story.

It was a dreary afternoon so Andy and I decided to go to RMNP for an afternoon adventure.  Little did we realize what we would find!  So many animals that we'll have to post twice.  Here is a post about all the birds we found a Sprague Lake.  It is so nice to have so many of them back.  (And apologies to the American Crow, 2 Wild Turkeys and the Hairy Woodpecker  that didn't make it in the photo line-up).

In our last post we talked about the Nuttall's Cottontail.  We've seen several in the neighborhood lately, but today there is one fewer.   There was a crime -- Tiva led us right to the evidence this morning.  A dead bunny in the yard.  Our trail camera picked up a bobcat walking through the yard last night.  A Common Raven picked up the evidence this morning.  What do you think?