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Son of a......that's a lot of kitty tacos!
fitterjohn
12-18-2020, 20:29
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saw a bunch of eagles on the way home from work about 25 in this one area mostly on the wrong side of the tree to get a good pic though
Bailey Guns
12-18-2020, 21:50
Very nice.
Bailey Guns
12-25-2020, 23:42
Christmas possum. Saw him walking thru the neighbor's yard. Walked right up to it. He had no idea until I stuck the camera in his face. I was hoping he would "play possum"...but he didn't. He hissed really loudly and drooled a lot.
https://i.imgur.com/jXNOKTq.jpg
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fitterjohn
12-26-2020, 08:48
Nice catch. That’s pretty cool
The next time I see one, I'm going to try and pick it up.
The next time I see one, I'm going to try and pick it up.
I'll bet those suckers bite like an angry raccoon.
One time I spotted a young muskrat crossing a busy road in GJ moving away from any ponds along the Colorado River. I figured it was doomed if I didn't catch and relocate it. I approached it in a gas station parking lot and it quickly admonished me with teeth and claws that it wasn't going anywhere without a fight. Not what I was expecting from a normally non aggressive musky.
I didn't have a noose pole with me, only some light leather work gloves and a cardboard box. I finally corralled and scooped it up and quickly closed the box. Lucky fellow got another chance at being a muskrat when I released him at Connected Lakes.
buffalobo
12-26-2020, 16:18
The next time I see one, I'm going to try and pick it up.I pick them up with 12ga, 4 shot.
https://youtu.be/USg_QsCfNmk
asystejs
12-26-2020, 16:49
The next time I see one, I'm going to try and pick it up.
I am going to touch it (https://youtu.be/c2owUI45FL0?t=35)
Neat, thanks Irving, I didn't know. I've only seen them a couple times in OK and TX. Still, welding are probably a good precaution.
A normal person shouldn't judge the temperament of an entire species from a couple YouTube videos... but I probably will.
Hummer, or anyone else, what are these tracks? This was up in Pawnee, and whatever it was seemed to be pretty interested in the rabbits. The rabbit tracks were much deeper. I'm thinking some sort of weasel. Anyone know?
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Here you can see the rabbit tracks sinking into the snow, while the other tracks stay on top.
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Interesting gait. Looks like a trot where back feet land one at a time, and front feet land together. Almost like a dog. Even the baby swift foxes I've seen out here weighed more than a rabbit though.
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First pic looks like the long hind pad of raccoon. Second looks like rabbit and maybe prairie dog. Third is a rabbit moving away and some guy with big feet. My guess is the dog tracks are coyote from the length of the stride. Put four together and you have the approximate length of the animal. Fox stride is somewhat smaller.
This morning I'm seeing tracks of rabbit, coyote, a large feral cat and Gambel's Quail.
Hmmm, I don't think raccoon or prairie dog. A raccoon would have broken through, and there are no prairie dogs on this land. The last picture being a rabbit makes sense I guess, since the shape of those tracks looks a little different than the first ones. Wish I had a game camera to find out.
I just remembered I've seen a skunk out there in the past.
newracer
12-30-2020, 14:30
Not many weasels in the plains, they can be there just not abundant. I also do not know if they would take a rabbit.
Bailey Guns
01-20-2021, 10:13
Pretty cardinals starting to show up in the hood:
https://i.imgur.com/oKMrwmi.jpg
Bailey Guns
01-27-2021, 08:07
Pelican at Lake Lawtonka...
https://i.imgur.com/iu1CUYD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/HnhIrrE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/3CEybo6.jpg
That first flying shot of him is great, very detailed. He's got quite the cow-lick.
I am not a dinosaur... (birds)
Bailey Guns
02-02-2021, 14:31
Not really wildlife...but close enough. The neighbor's goat. He wanders all over the neighborhood and takes naps on random porches...including mine on occasion.
https://i.imgur.com/NAPfaHC.jpg
He looks like he gets a lot of snacks.
Bailey Guns
02-02-2021, 17:25
He looks like he gets a lot of snacks.
Little bastard eats everything in his path...
Grant H.
02-02-2021, 21:18
Little bastard eats everything in his path...
Sounds like every goat I have ever been around...
Looks like a good candidate for the what to put on the smoker thread. [Dinner]
buffalobo
02-02-2021, 23:33
Looks like a good candidate for the what to put on the smoker thread. [Dinner]Smoked goat jerky. Good stuff.
Got another bird mystery for you Hummer. My brother found this guy in his carport the other night. He thought it was a wasps nest at first. He said the bird just kept it's head tucked in and didn't move at all. Know what it might be?
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That's a large woodpecker, a Red-shafted Flicker, named for the red feather shafts in the tail. Great birds with a distinctly tropical bird like song. They roost in our nest boxes and live just about everywhere. East of the Front Range you'll find more of the Yellow-shafted Flicker and hybrids with red and yellow feather shafts. They eat lots of bugs.
This morning we watched a cow and calf moose browse their way down the river and cross to the other side. In the afternoon I followed some tracks into the forest and spotted them lying down and chewing their their cud, 60 yards from the cabin. A while later the calf walked by the window next to my computer desk, five feet from me. I chatted with them as they browsed through the yard and up the driveway to the neighbors.
It's always fun to see the big deer in the yard. Which reminds me, I need to submit my cow moose hunting application....I could potentially draw this year.
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Bailey Guns
03-19-2021, 18:48
Man, they're beautiful...
DenverGP
04-05-2021, 20:41
From a co-worker/buddy's trail camera up in Wisconson:
https://i.imgur.com/wIasVXQ.png
Sit! Stay!
[exit, stage left]
I'd love to see a wolf in the wild!
From a co-worker/buddy's trail camera up in Wisconson:
Family back there in the North woods are pretty worked up.
About what? Isn't that a place where wolves never left? If they were gone, they were back and in numbers since the '90's right?
Great picture from a trail cam. I've only seen one from 20 ft. away, in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Katami. It was a thrill but I don't relish having them in Colorado.
I can tell you that the people on the western slope don't appreciate that Front Range urbanites have voted to foist wolves on western counties especially when they won't be introduced on the east slope. What a cowardly and unprincipled act! But I expect that eventually people along the Front Range corridor will enjoy first hand experience with wolves predating their pets, livestock and little kids.
About what? Isn't that a place where wolves never left? If they were gone, they were back and in numbers since the '90's right?
Honestly, I didn't ask. Just bellyaching about wolves... I just assumed, perhaps wrongly, it was like here and they were forced into the area. I seem to recall making a comment about what they were doing here and getting a lot of SM nodding.
From what I gather, no matter how long wolves have been around in an area, people generally either love them or hate them.
DenverGP
04-06-2021, 00:33
Another from the same camera:
https://i.imgur.com/7pHPU22.jpg
buffalobo
04-09-2021, 06:45
Three turkeys headed west on 88th ave at Beverley dr at about 6pm yesterday.
I was headed east and wasn't fast enough to get pic.
Motorist were giving them wide berth and the turkeys were cruising along with traffic.
buffalobo
04-09-2021, 09:07
https://nypost.com/2021/04/07/giant-lizard-goes-on-supermarket-sweep-wild-video-goes-viral/?utm_source=email_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
Now we know where the pizza, wings and hot dogs 7-11 sells come from.
Fun watching these Foxes grow up - they use our backyard as their Holiday Inn Express!
https://i.imgur.com/VfZjdBv.jpg
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Human remains found in black bears after Colorado woman is killed (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/human-remains-found-in-black-bears-after-colorado-woman-is-killed/ar-BB1gk5S7)
Human remains have been found in the stomachs of two of three black bears that were euthanized after they mauled a woman to death in Colorado while she was out walking her dogs.
The 39-year-old woman, who has not been publicly identified, was found dead by her boyfriend on a rural trail near Durango, in the state's south-west, on Friday.
Mountain Bluebird today.
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henpecked
05-30-2021, 16:43
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henpecked
05-30-2021, 16:47
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Horny toads were out, nice sunset central wyoming friday night.
henpecked
05-30-2021, 16:52
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crappy service out here in the middle of nowhere
henpecked
05-30-2021, 16:54
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Enjoy your holiday weekend
Came across this 7' bull snake while fishing in Pueblo.
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Fentonite
06-03-2021, 21:40
That’s different than any fox I’ve seen. (It’s a fox, right?)
Where?
Looks like a Swift Fox?
I think Colorado has red, Swift, and kit foxes, right?
Bailey Guns
06-04-2021, 05:32
Some great photos the last several days...
Funny - I was out driving around the countryside east of Parker one day, and a fox ran across the road right in front of me......with a chicken in its mouth! I thought that was cartoonishly cliche.
Irving got 3 out of 4. This is a gray fox in our backyard, up in the foothills. Swift foxes tend to hang out in prairies.
How could I forget the grays? I've seen Swifts out at Pawnee.
Fentonite
06-04-2021, 11:45
thanks for the lesson!
Here's some photos snagged from trail cam videos taken last evening. Mama moose brought baby to our yard to show where the good eats are. And they are eating our hummingbird flower plants. I'm sitting next to the door watching hummers. It was the beginning of prime time before dark with thousands of hummingbirds staging and parrying for spots at the feeders.
Our little hummingbird meadow in the forest will soon be filled with colorful native flowers. Some are blooming now including golden banner, purple penstemon and water plant.
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Bailey Guns
06-20-2021, 11:24
That is one gangly-legged little mooselet...
Here is a mountain goat on Mt. Quandary. I think it was a nanny, but I don't know enough about them to know for sure.
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Some yard birds, a family of Gambel's Quail with 19 chicks! I first saw them here 3 days ago when I think they were 1-2 days old.
Also a Gambel's male calling, a male Lesser Goldfinch, a male Brown-headed Cowbird and a handsome male Lazuli Bunting.
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Here is a mountain goat on Mt. Quandary. I think it was a nanny, but I don't know enough about them to know for sure.
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Very cool. Quandry is a 14'er. I've been next door and done Atlantic (and tried to do Pacific) which are high 13'ers, and look forward to doing Quandry. Pretty incredible that we get to see Mountain Goats like this, in the wild.
henpecked
07-09-2021, 19:12
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07-09-2021, 19:13
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henpecked
07-09-2021, 19:17
Hot and dry in Wyoming last week. Not many prairie dogs.
Hot and dry in Wyoming last week. Not many prairie dogs.
Doesn?t look terribly dry in the picture you posted above.
I think this is the same cow-calf pair I saw and posted on June 19 but the calf has grown and it's coat is darker.
At 6:10 a.m. I found them chomping on the fireweed and had to ask them to move on, and they did. Fireweed is an important pollinator flower throughout the western mountains to northern Alaska. The moose returned this evening to the hummingbird flower meadow and I gently urged them to move out to the raspberries. They can have all the raspberry. mountain maple, alder and aspen leaves they want but stay away from the hummer flowers!
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Earlier this evening we saw another cow-calf pair up the road and the calf was larger and almost as dark as the cow.
Here are a few pics from the last couple days. The American Dipper is America's only aquatic songbird. It dives into rushing mountain streams to catch aquatic insects and small fish. In the last century I developed a nesting box for dippers and have placed them on streams around the state. This one is in front of our cabin and can be seen from the kitchen-dining room. Yesterday the first two of four young fledged from the nest. This morning the last two fledged, dropping directly into the river and swimming to a rocky island shore. What a joy to We had a group of folks watching and photographing them today.
Also pics of mama and baby pine squirrels, and male Rufous and Broad-tailed Hummingbirds.
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Bailey Guns
07-20-2021, 06:09
Looking at your pictures is always a great way to start a day, Hummer. Thanks.
Looking at your pictures is always a great way to start a day, Hummer. Thanks.
Thanks BG. Miss Colorado yet?
Bailey Guns
07-20-2021, 10:11
Negative... Not even a little.
[Beer]
OMG, too cute.
A birdhouse in the middle of a stream?
Bailey Guns
07-22-2021, 15:40
Here's something ya don't see every day... A tiny, baby frog trying to make a meal out of a fresh, juicy maggot. The frog could easily be covered by a dime. He's really little. It looked like he was trying to bite the maggot but couldn't quite manage. He dragged it WAY over to the hose...about an inch...and decided maybe he wasn't that hungry.
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Bailey Guns
07-22-2021, 16:03
His rear legs looked pretty long so I was thinking it was a frog. But I don't know for sure.
Me either! Toads live in dryer climates, from what I understand. I was surprised to find them out in the Pawnee Grasslands.
Bailey Guns
07-22-2021, 16:34
There are definitely toads here. From what little I know about them they have short rear legs and a bumpier skin than frogs. They burrow in the ground here (the toads) and come out when it rains. One of my Corgis likes to wander around and sniff them out and dig them up so he can play with them.
hurley842002
07-22-2021, 16:37
We have toads all over the place down here, specifically the Sonoran desert toad, which come out in droves during monsoon season, the things are MASSIVE, and very toxic. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210722/3c1dba2383b3fdfb32630d22c523c8d1.jpg
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How many licks does it take to blast off to the moon? Approximately.
Bailey Guns
07-23-2021, 11:57
Last year there were 5 of these Kites that nested in a neighbor's tree. I saw them circling above the creek that's across the street yesterday and as best as I could tell there were 17 of them. I don't know much about them but they appear to hunt in "packs". They also seem to be pretty fearless. I'd say they're about the size of a red-tailed hawk. They swoop thru the yard and around the 'hood all the time at just above person height. I've seen them mostly go after flying insects...plenty of those around...and the occasional mouse. Really cool birds.
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Bailey Guns
07-24-2021, 05:54
Finally got a shot of one of the Great Horned Owls that visit the neighborhood. Heard him while I was putting the dogs out. There were at least 3 in the morning's hoot-enanny...but this one was the only one I could see.
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Last year there were 5 of these Kites that nested in a neighbor's tree. I saw them circling above the creek that's across the street yesterday and as best as I could tell there were 17 of them. I don't know much about them but they appear to hunt in "packs". They also seem to be pretty fearless. I'd say they're about the size of a red-tailed hawk. They swoop thru the yard and around the 'hood all the time at just above person height. I've seen them mostly go after flying insects...plenty of those around...and the occasional mouse. Really cool birds.
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Great picture of a great bird, BG! Mississippi Kites also live in southeastern Colorado. I've watched them many times in Lamar in the city park where they nest, and all around town. Mississippi Kites are a small hawk, about 14" in length with a 31" wing span, and weighing 10 ounces.
See: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mississippi_Kite/id
Some years ago we watched a Mississippi Kite fly along the irrigation canal that meanders through our farm outside Palisade, CO. It is only one of three recorded sightings of the species in western Colorado.
Finally got a shot of one of the Great Horned Owls that visit the neighborhood. Heard him while I was putting the dogs out. There were at least 3 in the morning's hoot-enanny...but this one was the only one I could see.
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Don't You have to worry about owls when letting the dogs out at night?
Bailey Guns
07-24-2021, 13:25
I don't worry about them. I think my dogs are big enough that an owl isn't going to bother them. I suppose it's possible, though.
It'd probably take the biggest species of owl to go for a Corgi, so I don't want to plant seeds of doubt where there shouldn't be any.
Bailey Guns
07-29-2021, 10:23
I've never seen an armadillo that wasn't laying dead on the side of the road. :(
This little guy wandered into the yard today. What a great experience to see one up close! And I never knew how fast they are. He's a speedy little guy. Apparently lives under the vacant house across the street.
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I have video of my wife stalking an armadillo in a cemetery. Its actually pretty funny.
Note to self?. see about getting those old VHS tapes digitized.
I have video of my wife stalking an armadillo in a cemetery. Its actually pretty funny.
Note to self?. see about getting those old VHS tapes digitized.
Ray, I have a standalone DVD burner you can use to do that.
Ray, I have a standalone DVD burner you can use to do that.
Hmm. I might take you up on that offer. I?m assuming I?ll need a VCR of some sort?
I'd peel my skin off to see a live armadillo.
Hmm. I might take you up on that offer. I?m assuming I?ll need a VCR of some sort?
Got one of those too.
Yours
Gotta dig em out in the next couple days
I'd peel my skin off to see a live armadillo.
I caught one when I was a kid. Quick little bastards.
I'd peel my skin off to see a live armadillo.
They're not very big, you'd be surprised.
Fentonite
07-29-2021, 17:34
“Armadillo ain’t nothin but opossum on the half-shell!”
-quote from a Marine I served with in the late 80s. He was a true backwoods hillbilly from Georgia. I was from Texas. This was his witty rebuttal to the platoon calling him “Opossum”. I still remember and laugh at his hillbilly wisdom.
I've only seen dead ones.
That was a leprosy joke, by the way.
buffalobo
08-01-2021, 21:28
Reba found this Wolf spider on porch. She was pissed I wouldn't let her mess with it.
About 2 1/2" across, not quite large but survived the Reba encounter so it has a chance to grow bigger.
Haven't had been lucky enough to see any big ones this year.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210802/7e9660dd9afffd78c4cfaca00a4a108a.jpg
That's a big one! Glad you saved it! Next time you get a chance, hold a pair of mirrored sunglasses up close to them where they see their own reflection, cool to watch even with little jumpers.
I'd peel my skin off to see a live armadillo.
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (https://www.cmzoo.org/animals/a-z/featured-animals-armadillo/)
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buffalobo
08-04-2021, 21:53
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210805/26062eb58cba3c92854f787ef1871e69.jpgPretty cool. Lizard dudes always haul azz long before I can get on target with camera.
All of the lizards we saw scurried away, except this one. He was quite a bit larger and he acted like he owned the place.
Hard to make out in the jug, but there's a 3-4" Black & Brown Desert Tarantula in there.
Small lizard in the other cage. The spider was released in NM before we left. Lizzy the Lizard is now a well fed well housed pet.
https://i.imgur.com/6vlrAzX.jpg
Bailey Guns
08-08-2021, 20:28
Bug. Don't know what kind. He was between 5 and 6 inches long. I thought it was dead grass from when I trimmed around my shop. I thought the wrong end was the head until he moved.
Thought the top end was his head:
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Nope...head was at the bottom:
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Walking stick or stick bug.
See 'em in Texas frequently
Bailey Guns
08-08-2021, 21:34
Yeah... I axed the Google. Pretty cool little creature.
A few shots while enjoying Palisade Peach Margaritas last evening in the hummingbird meadow. An immature Broad-tailed Hummingbird is working the flowers and feeding from Rocky Mountain Penstemmon.
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Here's a few more images from where we're still feeding more than 8000 hummingbirds daily. While southbound migrant Calliope Hummingbird numbers have been lower than expected this year east of the Continental Divide, we watched an immature male Calliope jockeying for a spot at the feeder.
The Calliope Hummingbird is the smallest bird in the U.S. and Canada, breeding in the mountains west from the Yellowstone area. They are like a miniature version of the Broad-tailed Hummingbird but about an inch shorter in total length and the adult males have a streaked magenta gorget. Calliopes generally weigh 2.1-3.2 grams compared to Broad-tailed at 3.4-4.5 grams. Calliopes are in the same genus as Broad-tailed, Rufous and Allen's, and they share characteristics.
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Compare this picture of the Broad-tailed on the left to the Calliope on the right. The Calliope has a very short bill and a very short tail that is shorter than the folded wings when it's perched. Notice that the Broad-tailed has a tail that extends beyond the folded wing.
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Calliopes also have a somewhat pot-bellied appearance. Check out this adult male.
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Bailey Guns
08-09-2021, 10:40
Wow! That is so colorful, Hummer.
ChickNorris
08-09-2021, 10:55
Bug. Don't know what kind. He was between 5 and 6 inches long. I thought it was dead grass from when I trimmed around my shop. I thought the wrong end was the head until he moved.
Thought the top end was his head:
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One of my favorite critters. Thanks.
I like his lanyard attachment.
Took some young California cousins to see their first moose, then came home for a picnic dinner of deer and moose steak fajitas.
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Bailey Guns
08-12-2021, 15:25
THAT... is a big boy right there! Could ask for a better "first moose" experience.
this morning out back visitor.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51393336794_69e22402c3_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2mishvG)IMG_0193 (https://flic.kr/p/2mishvG) by Tim Richard (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156405073@N02/), on Flickr
this morning out back visitor.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51393336794_69e22402c3_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2mishvG)IMG_0193 (https://flic.kr/p/2mishvG) by Tim Richard (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156405073@N02/), on Flickr
He's lining up nicely on your range.
ChickNorris
08-23-2021, 08:35
Nifty
Bailey Guns
08-23-2021, 09:17
Cicadas are cool. I see and hear them here a lot.
One flew into my window the other day and got me in the face while I was driving. I thought some kid threw something at me.
buffalobo
08-23-2021, 10:10
The dog thinks they are large popcorn bites. Drives Mrs bo crazy trying to keep her from eating them.
I can confirm that cicadas in fact, do not taste like popcorn.
My favorite bug, played with them as a kid and hung their empty shells on our clothes as we found them, wore them like medals!
Ugly, harmless and create a mesmerizing sound.
NFATrustGuy
09-03-2021, 11:37
I took this last week up at my place in Steamboat. I was standing on the landing of the stairs going to my condo. Probably only about 30 feet from the bear. I was carrying things in and out from the parking lot to my condo. Caused an impromptu beverage break for me to wait until he wandered off. This is across the street from the City Market and Wal-Mart parking lot for those of you who know Steamboat.
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This was at the Adams county fairgrounds a couple of weeks ago.
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buffalobo
09-05-2021, 07:48
Annual turtle visit.
Good thing so far this year is that have yet to see any of his cousins flat on the highway.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210905/bb669fa45c1503bebab2ec1b567e0474.jpg
ChickNorris
09-05-2021, 18:01
I saw a turtle the other day too. Had to move her out of the way.
Bailey Guns
09-07-2021, 19:40
Sitting in a parking lot eating lunch while my little dog was at the vet. These birds (and several others) landed on the front of the car and started eating the bugs from the grill. Might be a clue it's time for a wash?
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I saw those birds in a Walmart parking lot in Texas.
I legit waved toward OK as I drove by too.
Bailey Guns
09-07-2021, 20:08
Damn... Those birds get around. Where were you in TX?
Not sure but they appear to be juvenile Common Grackles. Also nest in CO in relatively small numbers, most frequently in lower elevation deciduous forests in urban/suburban areas. I had a group of males and later a few females visit during spring migration at 8500 ft., but they don't nest here.
Bailey Guns
09-07-2021, 20:37
Thanks, Hummer. I had no idea what they are.
ChickNorris
09-07-2021, 21:07
They are ornery birds. Not in the good way imo.
Damn... Those birds get around. Where were you in TX?
I was driving to Grand Saline, TX from Denver, so I'm pretty sure the Walmart parking lot I slept in was in Wichita Falls. It was 85 degrees at 1:30am when I pulled in. I don't recommend it. Sleep didn't happen.
Grackle trivia.
They were not native to North America but were introduced in the 1800's by a bunch of Shakespeare loving emigrants who wanted every kind of bird mentioned in one of his plays to be in the New World. The Starling was one of them. Thanks Bill!
Bailey Guns
09-07-2021, 22:05
I was driving to Grand Saline, TX from Denver, so I'm pretty sure the Walmart parking lot I slept in was in Wichita Falls. It was 85 degrees at 1:30am when I pulled in. I don't recommend it. Sleep didn't happen.
You coulda stayed here in a nice, cool bed if I'd known you were headed down 287. When you passed thru Vernon, TX I was only 20 miles north of you.
Jeeze that's close. It was around midnight though. I'm not sure which way I'm coming home, might stop in Houston.
As for animals, I've only seen a turtle crossing the road, in Grand Saline, TX, and a snake crossing the road in Louisiana. I assumed the snake was a nice big fat eastern diamond back, but only because it looked the right size and that's what I wanted it to be. I wanted to turn around, but didn't have time. I've yet to see any crocs, but no time to sight see really. I've been bitten by red ants in two states so far. Some wasp stung me today and I hardly even saw the damn thing so it's not like I was messing with it. I've seen some skinny white birds that I want to say are some kind of egret? I'm not sure and couldn't snap a picture because every time I've been driving.
Every time I go south I get bitten by red ants, FL, TX, and now LA, so apparently they are assholes in every state.
Ants,wasps and hornets are some of the nastiest f'ers of the animal world. They don't kill as many people as mosquitoes but damn....
I've been battling mountain hornets that make paper nests underground and in the roof behind fascia where I'm building two new roofs. I always have a six pack of wasp spray handy. Lately they go for the hummingbird feeders and any meat we have outside. I zap them with a maps gas torch. Sweet revenge.
I've been watching Australian Gold Hunters on TV, and my first thought was wow, these folks are picking up gold nuggets off the ground.
My second thought was, oh my gosh, they are constantly swatting flies/insects.
Nope, nope, nope.
we've been seeing this little fox in the neighborhood lately, I finally got a chance to snap a few pics., unfortunately it wasn't very close and I was trying to hold the camera to see through my binoc, so the pics. aren't the greatest.
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Grant H.
09-21-2021, 23:33
Saw some grizzlies in Deadhorse AK today.
Shitty phone pic, but momma and 2 goofy cubs. Mom is on the left, laying down watching.
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BladesNBarrels
09-22-2021, 15:45
That is some bleak landscape.
No wonder the bears are so disgruntled.
Grant H.
09-22-2021, 20:20
That is some bleak landscape.
No wonder the bears are so disgruntled.
Welcome to the north slope of Alaska...
There is a reason that the majority of human presence here is O/G or space related. There isn't much else.
Barrow AK actually is a "town", and it's pretty freaking dismal, even in the eternal sunshine of the summer...
Aren't all the slopes in Alaska in the North?
LOL, most of them would be South facing, however. ;)
henpecked
10-09-2021, 18:29
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An attempt to cross the creek
henpecked
10-09-2021, 18:43
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Out in the middle of no where there was a small white spot in the creek. Took some digging but it was a old texaco sign.
henpecked
10-09-2021, 18:47
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Cousin found this indian punch. First one of these we have ever found.
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Found another partial buffalo skull
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That rattler is going to make a nice belt
The butchered out pronghorn carcass has caught the attention of some Red-tailed Hawks.
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Thanks. It's blurry because I shot handheld through a window from ~120 yards away. I tried sneaking around the house to get an unobstructed picture but they are wary and took off. I moved the carcass out farther from the trees so they'd be more comfortable approaching it. In the past I've had Red-tails feed on elk scraps off the tray feeder about 20 feet from the dining room window.
Red-tailed Hawks are open country soaring birds and the most numerous and widespread hawk in North America. They average a 49 inch wingspan and weigh 2.4 lbs.
This morning we got a rare view of a Northern Goshawk that stopped by the river in front of the cabin. I'm lucky to see Goshawks maybe 2 or 3 times a year. Goshawks are the largest Accipiter, long tailed forest flying hawks that hunt birds and rodents in the trees. They mainly hunt grouse, rabbits, and squirrels. Goshawks average a 41 inch wingspan and weigh 2.1 lbs.
This photo was also shot through a window but at about 35 feet.
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Beautiful bird! Sure like Raptors.
Beautiful bird! Sure like Raptors.
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Momma bear and 2 cubs
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A birder told me this was a rare breed of duck. Don't recall what kind.
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that I believe is a type of sea duck called the Harlequin. Cool pic
Great photos, you must have had good trip. Grizzlies are awesome but I'm glad we don't have them in Colorado.
Great picture of the Bison too. I was wondering about how his skin is so clean shaven (sure this was a fight or something?) and otherwise he is all furry. How could that be, without blood, etc.?
But I think it is just like when we shave... the hair is removed and the skin is underneath.
My only bear story is when I was hiking up a road to a campsite in SW Colorado, these dudes in 4x4s (I think they are called) pulled up behind us and said. "Did you see that Bear? Biggest Bear I have ever seen!" I didn't see any bear, lol.
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I have no clue how to use the camera. Set to auto and get lucky.
ChickNorris
10-15-2021, 09:58
West Arvada a couple weeks ago
At 11:43 p.m., I heard a window strike by the front door windows. There was a Long-eared Owl splayed on the ground below. I brought it in to examine it and it seemed to be okay, not showing any broken wing or neurological issue from the collision. I gently held his shoulders so it couldn't fly or pierce me with it's talons. Took a photo and set it out on the porch. It seems fine, alert but resting. Will check in the morning....
I have caught, handled (and banded) many owl species but this was a first in-hand with a Long-eared Owl. It's quite a lot smaller that the very similar Great Horned Owl, and twice the size of a Western Screech-owl. I've seen Long-eared occasionally in our orchard and wildlife shelter belt but they're elusive and uncommon. Window strikes at our Palisade farm home are infrequent. Owls are more often injured by flying into wire fences and power lines at night. Hope this one survives.
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Bailey Guns
11-10-2021, 09:25
If the little guy had to fly into a window he couldn't have picked a better one. I'm glad you were there to help him (her?). Impressive photo, too! Were you holding the owl with one hand and snapping a photo with the other? If so...nice work! I'd like to hear an update on this one if you have one.
Grant H.
11-10-2021, 10:28
At 11:43 p.m., I heard a window strike by the front door windows. There was a Long-eared Owl splayed on the ground below. I brought it in to examine it and it seemed to be okay, not showing any broken wing or neurological issue from the collision. I gently held his shoulders so it couldn't fly or pierce me with it's talons. Took a photo and set it out on the porch. It seems fine, alert but resting. Will check in the morning....
I have caught, handled (and banded) many owl species but this was a first in-hand with a Long-eared Owl. It's quite a lot smaller that the very similar Great Horned Owl, and twice the size of a Western Screech-owl. I've seen Long-eared occasionally in our orchard and wildlife shelter belt but they're elusive and uncommon. Window strikes at our Palisade farm home are infrequent. Owls are more often injured by flying into wire fences and power lines at night. Hope this one survives.
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Cute little bugger.
I've always been fascinated with owls. Growing up on a horse farm with barns, space, and lots of mice we had many hang out on the property over the years. It was always fun laying in bed during the summer with the windows open and hearing them talk to each other. That and being out checking animals at night and seeing them fly over without a sound.
ChickNorris
11-10-2021, 17:33
Poor quality photo but its the best I got. Nice to see what I've only heard around my place until now. On the garage.
Yes, good news. I looked out the window several times and saw that the owl was alert and looking around. By 1 a.m., it had flown off. He or she, I didn't take the time to measure and sex the bird.
After I checked the wings to see they moved okay I wanted to get it outside as soon as possible. I held the shoulders/wings with one hand and quickly took a photo with the phone. Then photoshopped the picture to reduce the file size for posting.
This bird was probably hunting mice outside the front doors where we put seed and corn out for the birds. In the past I've seen Saw-whet and Pygmy-owls bump windows when catching moths that were attracted to the lighted windows.
I'm confident this Long-eared Owl recovered well. In the Grand Junction area Long-eared Owls use deciduous woods and dry washes where Russian Olive and Tamarisk dominate.
Poor quality photo but its the best I got. Nice to see what I've only heard around my place until now. On the garage.
Looking for Peekinese and free roaming cats....
When Great Horned Owls land on our metal roof they stomp around looking for rabbits and the occasional Mexican Woodrat.
Kind of a personal story for me, but when I went down to my grandfather's house in florida, to say good bye, and spread his ashes in the bay, there was an owl on the roof, similar to what Chick posted.
I think his owl, was plastic, to scare away predictors.
But to this date, I am sure my grandfather was that owl.
Bailey Guns
11-11-2021, 07:49
That is good news, Hummer...
Kind of a personal story for me, but when I went down to my grandfather's house in florida, to say good bye, and spread his ashes in the bay, there was an owl on the roof, similar to what Chick posted.
I think his owl, was plastic, to scare away predictors.
But to this date, I am sure my grandfather was that owl.
I remember many times that people have told me of loved ones who passed and their encounter, sometimes before, sometimes after, of the appearance of an animal they believe to be a totem, a form of reincarnation of their loved one.
The totem characters have been favored pets, stags, bears, hummingbirds, robins, owls and eagles. . I don't discount any of them.
What will my totem be?
BladesNBarrels
11-12-2021, 11:58
What will my totem be?
I am thinking a hummingbird - but, a very rare or thought to be extinct one.
[Coffee]
I am thinking a hummingbird - but, a very rare or thought to be extinct one.
[Coffee]
I was imagining a hummingbird that can morph onto a miniature falcon. Or maybe a Pygmy-owl. But my personality might align better with the gentle spirited Saw-whet Owl. All favorite predators anyway, including the hummingbird.
What would your totem be?
Here's a couple photos of the more than 120 mule deer I spotted in Rio Blanco County today, three older bucks were among them but no awesome senior citizens yet.
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Dude look pretty Buck'ish.
Dude look pretty Buck'ish.
Yes, and he's in the rut chasing does. It's a great time to hunt deer (and the first time I've ever hunted the mule deer rut). This fellow's head accentuates the very big body but the antlers, while high, lack basal mass and width. In the past three days I've seen a few bucks with wider antlers but probably not bigger bodied. I expect I'll be very lucky to find one much better. The very severe drought in western CO this year reduced food quantity and nutrients needed for antler growth. While October brought more rain which will help with winter forage it's too late to influence antler growth.
So far, November has been dry which will likely continue through the month.
encorehunter
11-26-2021, 14:57
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This guy's was on our place. I got to about 5 yards while he was raking a bush. He couldn't have cared less about me. Last we he would have been hanging in the barn right now.
At the Palisade farm for a few days we've seen Red Fox in the yard three times. This morning two fox went through together and I got these shots of one hunting quail and other birds in the brush pile about 15 feet from the dining room window. Fun to see them so close.
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Bailey Guns
12-28-2021, 18:53
Wow! Gorgeous little fox, Hummer! Nice work.
Wow! Gorgeous little fox, Hummer! Nice work.
Thanks BG. I expect you'll see fox and other interesting wildlife around your new place. A little land with natural habitat is so valuable.
Bailey Guns
12-28-2021, 19:57
I hope so...
Grant H.
01-01-2022, 15:11
Crappy pic from a cheap security camera, but we had a fox wander through to start the new year. Looks very healthy in the video (not surprisingly).
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Crappy pic from a cheap security camera, but we had a fox wander through to start the new year. Looks very healthy in the video (not surprisingly).
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Pretty good that the camera picked it up. My trail cams seem to lag and catches fast moving wildlife on their exit.
I caught night video of a fox slipping under the electric fence wire then looking into my living room window before quickly scooting back out.
We continue to get great views of a red fox hunting birds and rodents around the yard and within 15-30 feet from our dining room and living room windows. It's evident why our once abundant bunny population has been wiped out. This fox is an intensely focused hunter, and playful, too. We watched it tree a very lucky feral/free roaming cat. I don't give it long to live. Here's a few pics of Foxy hunting around the house today.
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Very cool Red Fox pics.
We have one around the neighborhood but I see it so infrequently in our yard, I've never been able to get a pic.
I'm a bit annoyed that I didn't get a photo on NYE when I had to catch a Winter Wren that decided it was time to head inside when we opened the door at my buddy's house. Little dude didn't flip our or anything when I grabbed him, and hung out for a bit when we went back outside.
Also, my wife's name is Wren, and we were in the Sommer home. Just a little odd
Meet Bob. He's a big kitty.
Caught on a trail cam outside the kitchen window reaching 52-54 inches to the butchered out deer carcass which the birds have been using. Bob was just curious and didn't pull it down. He's a hunter and not much into scavenging....
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Fentonite
01-25-2022, 16:57
Awesome pic! Do you know what put those claw marks on the tree? (assuming that is what they are)
Awesome pic! Do you know what put those claw marks on the tree? (assuming that is what they are)
The long claw marks are bear and there are finer ones on that tree from raccoon. We had serious bear problems for a few years until I caught someone on a neighboring property after he shot a bear over bait. He had been baiting bears and other wildlife for years causing problems for neighbors all around the area. He killed Yogi, one of the bears I photographed and posted earlier in this thread. I installed 100 yards of electric fence around our house which has mostly been effective except for a breach by Yogi on the morning he was shot by the person baiting wildlife on his grandmother's property.
BTW, I don't put out bird seed, etc., until late fall when the bears are hibernating.
Fentonite
01-25-2022, 22:04
I hope there were consequences for the illegal hunter.
Wow, that's like a Christmas card, Hummer.
And is that the top of your bird feeder I see?
Great picture!
kidicarus13
02-25-2022, 20:23
Found roaming in the neighbor's backyard tonight. So you say you can't find your chihuahua after letting it out to do its business? Ya, I haven't see it [emoji1745]89620
Wow, that's like a Christmas card, Hummer.
And is that the top of your bird feeder I see?
Great picture!
Thanks! It's a solar yard light. Bunny was checking out the wild rose hips. This little one, I'm guessing a male, has been around the yard for about 8 months. It has somehow been lucky enough to survive the nearly nightly coyotes passing through, and the occasional fox and bobcat. This winter it remains in shelter under my wood piles for several days at a time, then comes out to feed for a while when the predators are unlikely to show themselves. It eats cracked corn, milo and sunflower that I put out for the birds.
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That's a great capture. I'm thinking, "leaps tall fences in a single bound". There are predators everywhere and they will appear when least expected.
There's a local message board where residents of Jamestown and surrounding areas regularly post sightings and photos of bobcats, lions, coyotes and bears roaming around neighborhoods. And every week, sometimes several times a week people are posting about their lost cats and dogs. Unbelievable how clueless and careless some people are.
Bailey Guns
05-01-2022, 15:29
Couple of pics of a colorful little broad-tailed fella that's been visiting the feeder lately. Don't have many hummers here for some reason.
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While we saw our first Black-chinned Hummingbirds in Palisade on Apr 17th, the first Broad-tailed was here off the Peak to Peak on the 26th. A few more birds flowed in but the snow on Monday and again this morning probably moved birds down canyon where conditions are more mild.
Here's a pic of a feeder this morning. I have other feeders protected under the eaves. One male hummer visited this morning. We've had about 5" of snow so far today.
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Bailey Guns
05-08-2022, 15:36
That's cool. I'd like to know how to care for a hive of bees.
Bailey Guns
05-12-2022, 17:59
Very camera-shy Blue Jay guarding babies...
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Why we have an electric bear fence:
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So fun to see moose, especially young of the year calves with mom. Your last pic appears to be a yearling cow.
Our yard trail cams have recently shown both a yearling bull and a yearling cow. A pregnant mom hasn't shown for a while but I expect we'll see her soon, with babe.
Also lately is Bob, our neighborhood bobcat who seems to have decimated our rabbit population. Same with a weasel and the area voles, chipmunks and ground squirrels. Now we have our own yard marmot. I'm sure that Bob would love yard marmot. We like marmots but if he eats my wife's penstemons, well, that wouldn't be good. We've never eaten marmot before. [Dinner]
Gorgeous pictures, all.
Hummer, that Bear picture is something else! [panic]
-John
Gorgeous pictures, all.
Hummer, that Bear picture is something else! [panic]
-John
He does look pretty menacing. Three videos from two trail cams in the yard show that he's a pretty big fella.
This evening just before 6 p.m., my cousin spotted a bear cross our driveway and head through the forest toward our place. At 8:20, Mrs. Hummer and I spotted the bear in our little meadow about 40 ft. from us. It is a smaller, younger bear than the one on the cams from May 15. I expect it will be back overnight and I'll check the cams in the morning. Not good when bears come around during daylight hours. I'll need to keep the electric perimeter fence energized during the day now. In summer I keep a 12 gauge handy, loaded with 3 rounds of rubber buckshot and rubber ball, then 3 magnum slugs. I hope to haze this little one before it becomes a problem bear.
I did a hike in SW Colorado, and we were hiking up a gravel road to an abandoned town where we were going to spend the night before tackling a couple of 13ers the next day. As we are midway through hiking up the gravel road, a 4x4 or two past us, and the first one said, "Did you see that bear?! Biggest bear I have ever seen!"
I/we had not seen a bear. :o
Please keep us updated. Seems like a pretty serious issue where you are.
-John
Bailey Guns
06-14-2022, 19:54
Have a buddy who lives in Grant right at the base of Kenosha Pass.
He was up in the middle of the night and had the front door open (he has a screened storm door) to let in some cooler air. A young bear busted thru the screen right into his house, wandered down the hall with my buddy screaming at him. The bear then nonchalantly walked thru the living room and out the closed screen on the patio sliding door. The bear showed no signs of aggression, but no signs of fear, either.
He called DOW this morning. They had reports from two of his neighbors that the bear tried to get into their homes, too. Naturally, DOW is gonna trap and kill the bear. It just doesn't pay to be a bear any more, because there are so many stupid people (not my buddy...he knows how to live in bear country) who violate every rule for living in bear country, that will get you killed just because you're hungry. Frankly, I'd rather have less people and more bears.
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Did you try to pet her? [Peep]
Bailey Guns
06-15-2022, 13:22
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Yesterday I watched a cow with a very young calf try to cross the river but it was too deep for the young one....They both headed back to chomp willow along the stream.
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Yesterday, I saw that one of the kestrel chicks had fledged from the nest box on the Palisade farm house. American Kestrels are the smallest North
American falcon. I moved an orchard ladder to the box and poked my phone camera in the entrance to snap a photo. There were three more young close to fledging. One fledged the nest later in the afternoon, and the last two this morning. Today, all four young are arrayed on trees around the yard, screaming their new found falconness in hope of being fed another mouse, grasshopper or lizard. Pickings are slim given the dry conditions. The adult kestrels follow me around as I irrigate the wildlife shelter belt, protesting my presence and uncaring that I provided some 35 generations of kestrels with clean, free housing.
A little distressing are the eight baby magpies and four adults wandering the yard looking for any meaty morsel. The Gambel's Quail chicks haven't a chance.
At our home in NW Boulder County, we again have American Dippers nesting in a box in the stream by the cabin. I've placed about 35 of these boxes on rivers around the state since 1984. Several boxes within a few miles are currently in use now. I expect that four dipper chicks will fledge our in stream nest box sometime between July 3-8. If the river is amenable I hope to band the dippers before they fledge.
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BladesNBarrels
07-02-2022, 17:05
Fascinating!
Thanks for posting.
Two bulls foraging through the yard munching on fireweed and aspen. We want to save both the flowers and the aspen so I asked them to move on.
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Very cool, Hummer.
Those are some PBS documentary worthy shots.
Gorgeous!
-John
{maybe I can use this as an argument to not mow my lawn}
Thanks Arbol,
The first two, obviously, are screen captures from trail cam videos, the other with my real camera. The Browning Spec Ops cams get great images. I have four but want more. In the past few days they've caught coyote, deer, bear and even a night shot of a Great Horned Owl catching a vole below the dining room window.
Fwiw, as a kid I had a thriving lawn mowing business. I later decided I'd never have a lawn, only wildland grasses and flowers. At the Palisade farm I mow the grasses twice a year. Never at the cabin.
Very cool, Hummer.
Those are some PBS documentary worthy shots.
Gorgeous!
-John
{maybe I can use this as an argument to not mow my lawn}
Last Saturday, I heard some panicked screaming right outside the window. Thought it might be a Cooper's Hawk that took down a sapsucker, but no. Walked out to find a Long-tailed Weasel with a death grip on a young cottontail rabbit. I scared off the weasel but bunny was dying. The weasel soon returned and hauled it off. The rabbit probably weighed twice as much as the weasel.
Weasels kill by a bite through the skull or the spinal cord in the neck. It was violent and the screaming was distressing because we like having the bunnies around, but the weasel is probably feeding young too. The weasel was small, so probably a female. Last summer we watched a weasel kill a chipmunk. This year our property is devoid of chipmunks and ground squirrels, and there are fewer tree squirrels.
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I have lost count of how many wires I've had to fix because of cotton tails around here. I'm on scorched earth level with them
Banding birds in Sedona recently I caught this hybrid male Rivoli's x Black-chinned Hummingbird. It is smaller than a Rivoli's (Magnificent) and larger than a Black-chinned. Hummingbirds do hybridize occasionally but there is no record of this hybrid combination. He's truly unique, a one of a kind individual.
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buffalobo
08-26-2022, 22:18
Banding birds in Sedona recently I caught this hybrid male Rivoli's x Black-chinned Hummingbird. It is smaller than a Rivoli's (Magnificent) and larger than a Black-chinned. Hummingbirds do hybridize occasionally but there is no record of this hybrid combination. He's truly unique, a one of a kind individual.
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buffalobo
08-26-2022, 22:20
I had a helper tonite while canning green beans.
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Caught on one of the yard trail cams walking through before dark. We've seen him once in the evening about 30 ft, from us, and on the cams several times at night. Just one of the neighbors. Maybe he'll bring us a pic-a-nic basket from the campground nearby.
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sbgixxer
08-29-2022, 22:07
Cool! What's your elevation up there?
hurley842002
08-31-2022, 10:18
Removed this guy from the entryway at work the other night:
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Then this little guy from the doorway at my ex?s place (did it for the children):
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I almost picked up the little one, then noticed the shape of it?s head.
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encorehunter
09-10-2022, 18:21
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I thought my camera was moved a different direction.
encorehunter
09-10-2022, 18:24
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Living dangerously behind my 200 yard target.
ChickNorris
12-11-2022, 15:40
Saw my first Coatimundi today on the patio. I was standing inside by the French doors directly under the camera. Didn't have my phone handy but here's a security still of him. Additional stock image below since the angle isn't great.
Admittedly the first words out of my mouth were 'What the fook IS that?'
Bailey Guns
12-11-2022, 17:37
^^ That is cool! ^^
Yeah, it is!
Saw my first Coatimundi today on the patio. I was standing inside by the French doors directly under the camera. Didn't have my phone handy but here's a security still of him. Additional stock image below since the angle isn't great.
Admittedly the first words out of my mouth were 'What the fook IS that?'
Seen them a few times over the years at Conchas Dam Lake in NM.
BladesNBarrels
12-13-2022, 09:40
Saw my first Coatimundi today on the patio. I was standing inside by the French doors directly under the camera. Didn't have my phone handy but here's a security still of him.
Wow, nice location.
Your new winter residence?
Saw my first Coatimundi today on the patio. I was standing inside by the French doors directly under the camera. Didn't have my phone handy but here's a security still of him. Additional stock image below since the angle isn't great.
Admittedly the first words out of my mouth were 'What the fook IS that?'
Nice! When I lived (1968-1983) in Tucson my dad (he passed in '92) was a docent at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum so I would go there with him whenever I was on break from school. He was a "snake wrangler". I loved watching the coatis, especially during the cooler months when they were much more active. One of my cousins, while getting her PhD at the U of A, would set up a 6 ft ladder and observe them for part of her program, the Arizona Daily Star even did an article on her-that was in the late 70s.
I always found them very interesting animals.
We've had 1 & 2 coyotes (and fox) in the yard through Jan and Feb. Last night, this one moved through at 9:18 pm, 2:22 am, and 3:38 am. Neighborhood dog. At one point in the videos, it was jumping at voles under the snow.
This is a still taken from video. The coyote is illuminated front and back because another cam caught it from the opposite side.
Btw, the Browning Dark Ops Extreme trail camera has invisible "night vision" infrared LED illumination up to 80 ft. The flash can't be seen but a tiny red glow comes on at the camera and sometimes birds and mammals notice it. Hummingbirds, woodpeckers and chickadees will sometimes hover in front of it.
Fun to watch.
P.S.: @ sbgixxer, we're at 8500 ft. elevation.
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This is what makes it okay for me to walk in the dark. :)
They are out there, but most of them don't want to eat me.
-John
OK, so that one wants to eat me. :O
-John
ChickNorris
04-21-2023, 18:18
Cherry Creek drive & Holly Street in Denver.
ChickNorris
05-10-2023, 20:12
Exotic mantis roaming wild on the patio in Tucson! Bit far from home. Wonder how he got here?
Empusa Pennata
Exotic mantis roaming wild on the patio in Tucson! Bit far from home. Wonder how he got here?
Empusa Pennata
(Edit - maybe should've put this in wildlife photos)
Crazy weird critters. Once in a while I find them on my hummingbird feeders waiting for a catch.
Saw my first Coatimundi today on the patio. I was standing inside by the French doors directly under the camera. Didn't have my phone handy but here's a security still of him. Additional stock image below since the angle isn't great.
Admittedly the first words out of my mouth were 'What the fook IS that?'
Looks like you're in scorpion city now.....
When I lived in Patagonia AZ, I saw coatis fairly often. This is part of a group of 27 coati I saw on the continental divide in Costa Rica. Very raccoon like in their habits.
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