STATE FOREST
Wildlife Viewing Tips: Time your outing for morning or evening, when wildlife are more active Wear earth-tone clothes lake gray, khaki and olive green. Animals will tolerate you better if you blend in. Keep your distance, for the safety and comfort of both animals and people. If an animal changes its behavior, stops eating or seems nervous at your presence, it’s time to back away. WILDLIFE FIELD GUIDE Stay quiet and still. Noise and quick movements mean www.parks.state.co.us ‘danger’ to wildlife. They may run or fly off. Never chase or harass wildlife. Look to the edges of the landscape, because many wildlife species spend time along habitat edges. Look for movement, shapes, and color contrasts. Mo- tion is the best giveaway State Forest State Park Use binoculars, spotting scope or telephoto lens 56750 Highway 14 Use car as viewing blind. Pull safely off the road. Walden CO, 80480 DATE:______WEATHER:______ Leave your pets at home. Pets hinder wildlife watching, (970) 723-8366 TIME: from______to ______they can chase, injure, or will wildlife. Or be injured Email: [email protected] TOTAL SPECIES:______themselves. TOATAL INDIVIDUALS:______ Do not feed wild animals. It can change their behavior www.cpw.state.co.us in ways that can me harmful for both them and people. MAMMALS DOGS AND FOXES AMPHIBIANS Common Name Count Coyote Western Toad SHREWS Red Fox Boreal Chorus Frog Northern Leopard Frog Masked Shrew BEARS Wood Frog Pygmy Shrew American Black Bear Barred Tiger Salamander Dwarf Shrew RACCOONS REPTILES Merriam’s Shrew Northern Raccoon Wandering Garter Snake BATS WEASELS, OTTERS, AND BADGERS Little Brown Myotis Short-tailed Weasel FISH Golden Trout Big Brown Bat Long-tailed Weasel Brook Trout Townsend Big-Eared Bat American Mink Rainbow Trout Fringed Myotis American Badger Brown Trout PIKAS, HARES AND RABBITS Northern River Otter Arctic Grayling Colorado River Cutthroat Mountain Cottontail American Martin Greenback Cutthroat White-Tailed Jackrabbit SKUNKS BEAVERS Stripped Skunk American Beaver CATS MICE, CHIMPMUNKS, SQUIRRELS, VOLES Mountain Lion Deer Mouse Bobcat Northern Grasshopper Mouse Lynx House Mouse DEER Bushy-tailed Woodrat Elk Western Jumping Mouse Mule Deer Montane Vole White-Tailed Deer SQUIRRELS Moose Least Chipmunk Pronghorn Yellow-bellied Marmot Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel Wyoming Ground Squirrel White-tailed Prairie Dog Cliff Chipmunk PORCUPINES North American Porcupine