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Sent in by Lucy Csurka, Lakeside	Sent in by Lucy Csurka, Lakeside	Winter 09 Jill Lakeside AZ
Glowing Sunrise Dec 24th, 2009 by Susan Cassler	Feeding elk has become a Christmas tradition for us. Fish & Game Dept. said it was ok for us to feed them 3 nights a year, as their wintering grounds are right across the road from us on BLM land. Otherwise it is not good for them to get dependent on what we feed them or for them to start hanging around our neighborhood instead of moving onto the BLM land. This was Christmas night. They arrived on Christmas Eve. Note the two large cows that are serving as sentries in the top right. Joy-Vernon	Elk are born to be big! There were "gangs" of calves this year. At birth an elk calf weights about 35 pounds. They can gain two pounds a day for the first few weeks. At the start of winter, an elk may weight five times as much as when it was born. This was Christmas night. Joy-Vernon
Westie enjoys just sitting and watching the elk for hours, as I do! It doesn't take much to keep us entertained...birds, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits and elk! Eastie went nuts, growled and barked and scared the elk away Christmas night, I had to shut her in the other part of the house so just Westie and I could watch. Christmas night... Joy-Vernon	This bull elk came around late on Christmas night. A cow elk can weight more than 500 pounds, stand 4 1/2 feet at the shoulder and measure 6-1/2 feet from nose to rump. An average bull weighs 700 pounds and stands 5 feet at the shoulder & measures more than 8 feet from the nose to the rump! I didn't get any photos of this bull elk looking up, but you can compare the height of its back to the fence and see how huge it is. Joy-Vernon	This young bull came late Christmas night. At times we couldn't have counted how many elk were out there when the groups of cows and calves were there. They ate an entire bale of alfalfa three nights in a row. This bull is standing where a bale had been hours earlier. Joy-Vernon
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