Bulls bucks and ducks for the 4th on the game cams.

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 Still in velvet. Most of the other deer and elk do not yet have antlers so well developed as these two above. The bucks are pretty much nocturnal, but the does and fauns are out in the daylight.

Mooning duck!

Wood ducks?

Bird houses and owls

Through a friendly neighbor, we had the good fortune to meet a gentleman with a one man lumber mill that likes to make bird houses. He gifted us 34 assorted houses made of everything from oak to black walnut. They should last a long time.
Lots of blue bird houses, a couple for barn owls (they were heavy!), two for kestrels, swallows, nut hatches and a wood duck house (also very heavy).

While checking the game cameras we saw this little guy in one of the Kestrel houses. I believe that it is a Western Screech Owl.
No Spotted owls have been (or will be) spotted!
It would be nice if we had pygmy owls, but we are too far North.

Elf owl

Or  Elf owls, They are really cute.