Another mirror from 9am this morning -
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Another mirror from 9am this morning -
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Man, I really need to learn how to fish better.
That orange luxury accommodation in the background is inline with the hobby. Bugs, hard ground, rain, heat, all in the name of "fun".Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
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Bear on the Mt Denali range... photo taken from 350' up in a helicopter
Saw a grizzly cross the highway later... but I was driving so no pic of that one
Awesome fish! What a beast! Do you eat those suckers? If so, how do you prepare them? What is that, like 20 lbs.? Are there Mirror Carp in Pathfinder, and are the other photos at Pathfinder? All impressive, btw. I've canoed and fished the North Platte and Pathfinder a number of times.
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Originally Posted by hatidua
I actually don't but I've found that fish preferences are entirely regional: the Japanese love raw bluefin tuna but you couldn't pay an NC commercial fisherman to eat raw fish even though the giant bluefin are being caught in NC (and then FedEx'd overnight to Tokyo). In Seychelles, I watched a waterfront fish market sell off all of their jacks and barracuda rapidly, and the dolphin (mahi mahi/dorado) languished in the sun all day, nobody wanted that species! Amberjack is popular in New Orleans but considered trash fish in the mid-atlantic, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
There was an online link I saw in the past few weeks on the preparation of carp. So, yes, people do eat them and I've seen them in the refridgerated case at Pacific Ocean Market in Broomfield. Granted, there's stuff available at Pacific Ocean Market that is challenging even to look at, much less eat...
As far as distribution, I think there are mirror carp in just about every pond and lake in CO and WY. I've only caught a handful of the "common" carp, everything we seem to catch are the mirror carp. And I have no idea where the babies hang out, I've yet to catch one that is really small, they all tend to be fairly respectable in size. I've not caught any that are in the really upper rungs of what's possible (they get past 60#s), but there are plenty of fish that are big enough to get well into the backing.
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Originally Posted by hatidua
Those things are all over base!!! There are so many, you can actually hunt them now.
Our Northern Flicker is named Roland (after the Warren Zevon song) and you can set your watch by his drumming. He hits our chimney flashing at 7:03, and flies to the neighbor's house 4 minutes later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtneer
Have any of that concoction left over from your The People's Deck vs. Skunk trial?
From Estes Park yesterday
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Looks like he's bearly hanging on.Quote:
Originally Posted by henpecked
While scouting for moose today we came upon a beauty of a buck bedded in a stand of aspen. He was alert and looking at us, his high 6 x 6 point antlers shimmering in the backlit sunlight. As I dug a camera from my pack he trotted across through the meadow and disappeared up the hill.
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Two minutes later another buck came running from across the meadow to stop exactly where the first buck had been bedded. He's a little younger with 5 x 5 points including brow tines. Note his right ear has been torn, perhaps in a bout with the previous buck.
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Last weekend I visited friends for banding in Sedona where the hosts have groups of javelina moving through their yards. They always fascinate me and someday I'm going to hunt them.
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Cow moose less than 15 miles west of Colorado Springs
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My fishing buddy stuck this yesterday at Spinney. I got a few in the mid 20's but this was 41 inches. Absolute brute.Attachment 76145
Damn ... Trolling or casting?Quote:
Originally Posted by vossman
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Here is a couple of a deer that has been passing through my yard lately. One from my next door neighbor to the south and by the neighbor across the street. He usually cruises through my back yard because there isn't a fence that he would have to hop over.
This is the north west corner of Evans and Santé Fe.
Out for a walk along the creek this morning and saw this. One of the bigger nests I've found.
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Well I've never seen one that big. Thanks for the pic!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Yep, that's what I said. Hehehe
Mrs BG took this while out for a walk today along the river near the house:
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It's great to have moose around. In winter they wander farther from lakes and river areas. Do they come up around your house too?
He was right where the creek that runs thru our property empties into the Clearwater River...about a half mile from the house. I haven't seen one near the house but it's possible I suppose if they're that close. I'd like to.
Probably should put a game cam down there on the creek.
Yesterday and today we have a new yard bird, a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch. It's a species we've never seen on our property before, probably because we're in dense spruce-fir forest. They surely fly over from time to time, but just don't stop here. Rosy-Finches are birds of open areas. They nest on rocky cliffs along the top of the Continental Divide and feed on insects and seeds on the tundra and on snow fields. Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches summer range is from Idaho to the Brooks Range in Alaska, and they winter in Colorado.
On October 14, we had another new yard bird, a Brown-capped Rosy-Finch. Very similar to the Gray-crowned, Brown-capped are almost exclusive to Colorado. They'll often all be seen together in winter flocks along with Black Rosy-Finches. I think one reason we're seeing more of these tundra birds (like the Horned Lark two winters ago), is that we've opened the forest around our house by cutting big trees for fire mitigation.
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch:
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Brown-capped Rosy-Finch:
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Those are some nice pics. Never seen either of those that I know of.
Here's a pair of Clark's Nutcrackers munching on a chunk of moose suet on the tray feeder. The male on the left is doing a ritual feeding of it's mate. Actually, they are identical in appearance but one can discern the sexes by certain mating behaviors. Great birds!
Every fall I hang the bones from my big game carcasses in the yard for the birds to glean fat and meat throughout winter.
Also a photo of a female Downy Woodpecker on the left and a male Hairy Woodpecker on the right, gleaning protein from the moose leg bones. The Downy Woodpecker is a miniature (nearly identical) version of the larger Hairy Woodpecker. Male Downy's also have a red patch on the nape like the male Hairy.
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Colorado guy was running trails and was attacked by a mountain lion. He killed it. Article doesn't say how.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-trail-n966906
Eagles can watch episodes of Jerry Springer from over a mile away!
This evening we watched a cow and a calf moose browse by the stream and around the yard. They were feeding on willow, aspen and mountain maple. The cow stopped in front of the dining room window and chewed on a small fir tree that we've kept lighted since Christmas. Next to the cow were the hanging legs of the bull moose that I had taken last October. Here's a few of photos from this evening right before dark. I'm not certain yet but I think the calf is a bull as there appears to be pedicles on the forehead.
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I was outside making paths in the snow for the chickens, otherwise they won't leave the coop, and the dog had her attention on something. The dog is supposed to be on restricted movement so I was looking around at all of the usual squirrel spots and saw this guy. It's a good thing for the dog because All the chickens were just walking in a straight line with their backs turned and staying in the very narrow track I made them. Once I started asking him uncomfortable questions about Kathleen Peterson he flew away. I sure wasn't expecting to see him out at 10:00 am though. Probably couldn't hunt much while it was snowing. Also, had to aim the camera funny or else it would try to darken to compensate for the white sky and then you couldn't see him at all.
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Squatting and trying to stay warm.
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He does look a little guilty.
Owl: winner winner chicken......<enter stuving>
Owl:f*$!*
Did he have an owlibi?
How do you even know this shit? I had to look up that name.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
P.S. LOL
There is a documentary on Netflix called The Staircase that is all about that case. When I was working in Nebraska and staying with friends we were watching. The Netflix show doesn't mention the owl at all, and I otherwise thought it was kind of a dumb documentary. My buddy told me he looked up the owl theory and that actually changes everything for me. They wouldn't allow the owl part in the trial, but in retrospect all the evidence makes much more sense.
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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
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I've never seen the documentary but you intrigued me, so did some digging. Looks like the editor of the Staircase became "romantically involved" with Peterson. Such a freakin' socio. Just like many other historical killers (Bundy, anybody?), charming enough to bang a lot of people who should know better. There was a "Peterson" on the west slope, named Michael Blagg. He got a retrial on a technicality, also tried a long-shot defense explanation trying to assert it was a different serial killer who happened to be in the area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
He failed. Guilty 2x.
Dang Hummer, where do you live? Don't know about all that snow, but I could dig the critters.
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Originally Posted by rondog
Well, we're in moose country north of Ward on the St. Vrain River and off the Peak-to-Peak highway. In the past week we've had a good 2 ft. of snow. I'm hoping for more....