Weekly Photo

Have a great weekend and enjoy some more Wild Turkey footage!

The coyote is an extremely intelligent animal with keen senses. Watch these coyotes out on the Willits Mitigation Lands forage for food and mark their territories.

Enjoy this additional footage of Tule Elk behavior during this year’s breeding season. Bugling can be heard up close near the camera and also off in the distance! One of the cow elks being monitored by CDFW can also be seen.

Watch as these black bears roam the mosaic of forest, wetland, and streamside habitats in Little Lake Valley. Black Bears have a sense of smell seven times stronger than a bloodhound. Two bears take a break from foraging to play wrestle!

The Tule Elk on the Willits Bypass Mitigation Lands have begun the rut.

This nice variety of mammals are utilizing riparian habitats for travel corridors, foraging grounds, and other activities!

These avifauna are dodging the summer heat and staying clean and hydrated along the shaded creeks of the Willits Bypass Mitigation Lands.

These elk calves spent the early summer hunkered down in tall grass. They are now venturing out and learning how to forage for food and developing strength for warding off predators.

Watch as this nice variety of birds visit and bathe at a popular shaded creek pool on the Willits Bypass Mitigation Lands.

Watch as these elusive wetland-loving birds explore the muddy creek bottoms and pools this summer.

This Great Egret and Great Blue Heron are taking advantage of the shallow pools of water along the drying up creeks, picking off crayfish and other invertebrates.

Watch these California resident birds forage and hop around in the dry vegetation. The buzzy call of the Spotted Towhee is prominent.