The area has good populations of pheasants and both whitetails and mule deer. Pheasant hunters will also put up an occasional covey of quail, and cottontails are plentiful in the draws and plum thickets. Waterfowl blinds may be put up along the lake, away from the recreation areas, but they are occupied on a first-come basis and cannot be reserved for the builder. Duck hunters can do well on mallards, other dabblers, and some species of divers before the late season freeze-up. Canada geese can even be lured into range by decoys on occasion.
All visitors seem to enjoy the antics of the resident prairie dogs.
Their town near Spring Creek is protected to insure they will continue to be around the area for the public to observe. Another special attraction at Red Willow is the longhorn cattle display, which recalls the days when huge herds of these rangy animals made the hard journey up the old Texas Trail. The life of this lake has been put in jeopardy by sudden dewaterings of the stream from the concentrated development of deep-well irrigation north of the river, coupled with some extra dry years. The 1980's, however, have been good to the impoundment, thanks to exceptionally wet springs and low irrigation demands through the growing seasons. Like the other Southwest Reservoirs, Enders is a combination of recreational and wildlife lands, with the additional dedication of a portion of the area as a wildlife refuge in the fall and winter.