Photos: © Miguel Ordeñana, some rights reserved, Los Angeles County Natural Museum camera trap, May 2013. Coyote. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
For a week last May, Wildlife on the Red Car Property was documented with a remote critter camera on the LA Nature Map. Ordeñana is a field biologist & lead gallery interpreter at the LA County Natural History Museum.
Jonathan Vandiveer, Red Car Property neighbor & blog contributor, commented (when I sent him the link last summer), "The timestamp on the coyote photo indicates I'd just jogged through the canyon. I never saw him. The close angle and expression on his face is one you'd only get with a remote camera."
Striped Skunk
Raccoon
Virginia Opossum
Eastern Fox Squirrel
Domestic Cat. From the size of his neck, I'd say it's an intact male.
Stuff you missed last year: we shoot & collect tons of photos. So we try to wrap up the year with some interesting ones we never got a chance to run.