Druid Hills Wildlife

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Druid Hills Wildlife in Florissant Colorado is one of the many reasons this area is becoming so highly attractive to new buyers, and we have some very special reasons we call this OUR home. Please enjoy some of the photos taken of our local resident mule deer. And see why this place is worth fighting for! In order to keep turmoil, chaos, and drama out of our subdivision.

Local wildlife includes many critters, both big and small, as well as beautiful birds. Natural landscaping rich with gorgeous rock outcroppings. We have one of the most diverse bird populations in the country. And one of the most scenic residential spots in Teller County.

Elk herds are often seen right off the highway, and just recently, right across the way from the main front entrance of the Druid Hills subdivision!

Simply going to the community mailbox is a visual pleasure – having a home in Druid Hills is truly an honor and privilege! If you have captured a wildlife encounter that you would like to have shared here, please feel free to contact us with your photos, story, and even a link to your business or website, we will be glad to showcase it here!

Please always be on the look out for wildlife crossing the roads, and report any unlawful hunting, poaching, trapping, or other wildlife crimes and report it immediately to the local authorities.

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Druid Hills Wildlife

In The Druid Hills Subdivision

Druid Hills Wildlife in our subdivision, we saw a young Grizzly Bear roaming his 100 square mile territory. This sightings was a once in a lifetime opportunity I never saw him again. I remember his teddy bear ears, long muscular body, his shoulders were massive with a hump along his backside. He had huge claws, his fur was light in color on his back, not uniform it looked course in texture.

Description:

Descriptive Information-National Geographic

Scientific Name: Ursus arctos horribilis

Type: Mammals

Diet: Omnivores

Average life span in The Wild: 25 years

Size: 5 to 8 ft

Weight: 800 lbs

Size relative to a 6-ft man:

Other Druid Hills Wildlife

PREDATORS

In our subdivision I’ve seen Mountain Lion tracks, could hear screams in the distance but never saw one. We also have Brown Bear very well fed with a round body structure and short stocky legs.

PREY

Other animals down the food chain are deer, often seen in Colorado forests, mountains, and rural areas. Beautiful, White-tailed Mule Deer in mountain regions seen in herds or small groups. Some time ago, 20 Bucks roamed our subdivision, now they are fewer,only seen in a small groups now. Sometimes seen are females with their fawns and they always have one or two adults stand guard.

OTHER MAMMALS

In addition, we have an occasional a rare fox sighting run through this subdivision always alone. I have noticed red, black and silver colored foxes with a white tail on separate occasions. While looking out my kitchen window seeing these beautiful mammals was definitely a treat.

Another mammal rarely seen is the Coyote that once roamed our subdivision in pairs are gone. On a rare occasion I have seen a Black Wolf that had taken the high ground while I walked the road in our subdivision. He or she was gone from my sight after awhile, seemed to not want to bother anybody in our subdivision, as to say, just passing through human.

Smaller Mammals

Druid Hills Wildlife in our subdivision of the smaller variety are, Wild Turkeys a flock came through one day must of been 25 in number. I have pictures what an awesome sight. There are several varieties of squirrels, their colors are, brown, black A-bear, grey A-Bear with white tipped tail, grey squirrel with white chest and white tipped tail seen in our subdivision.

Even smaller mammals seen in our subdivision, such as, the ground squirrel or prairie dog. Chipmunks, and field mice inhabit our subdivision also. When we had ponds in front, we had Mallard Ducks, Canadian Geese, Red Winged Blackbirds, Rocky Mountain Bluebirds, and many others, now gone from the area or rarely seen since our Wetlands are dried up now that the POA claims it,even the Wetlands Sign is gone.

Rarely seen are Morning Doves, not as abundant as they once were, we have Blue jays, Magpies, Crows and Ravens. Smaller birds I have had the privilege to see are Chickadees, Swallows, and Hummingbirds-Ruby Throat-ed and Rufus., Also, Wood Peckers, Flickers, Robins, Morning Doves and Rocky Mountain Bluebird among others.

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