Nature Walks

Rock’n B Mountain Lion – December 28, 2014

My brother and I did an early morning walk on his Rock’n B Ranch near Cripple Creek Colorado over the Christmas holiday.  It was in the low twenties with a coat of freshly fallen powder on the ground, a perfect morning for two brothers to walk in the Colorado Rockies.

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View from the Rock’n B

Besides enjoying the beautiful morning the other purpose of our walk was to see what pictures our motion sensing camera might have taken.

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Leading the Way

After only going a few hundred yards we crossed some mountain lion tracks.

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Path Left by Lion

From the size of the prints it appeared to be a pretty big lion. 

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Track in the Snow

We could see in some areas where the lion had apparently been chasing some rabbits.  The land around the Rock’n B is perfect for mountain lions; lots of deer, lots of rabbits and outcroppings of Rocks. 

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Rock Outcropping

We didn’t see the Mountain Lion on this trip but the motion sensor camera did get a picture of the lion along with a pretty cool night picture of a coyote. 

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Picture of Mountain Lion taken in early November

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Picture of Coyote taken in mid-December at night

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Daniel 2:70: …snow, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him forever.

 

Len Brammeier, 1/26/2015