Speaking of owls. I found a patient one today.
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Speaking of owls. I found a patient one today.
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Originally Posted by ColoWyo
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Those are two really beautiful photographs! Nice work, sir.
Thanks. I appreciate that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
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Camping this weekend a few of the wildlife living and dead. Ticks were out.
A few more
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No crossing the creek this trip
Outdoor adventures. Nice.
The fish were biting below the dam in Cheeseman Canyon this past weekend, here is an 18 incher I caught along with a 16 incher and 2 12-13 inchers. Had 5 more on that didn't make it in to the net.
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Northwest Colorado?Quote:
Originally Posted by henpecked
I think he usually goes to Wyoming, but couldn't tell you where.
That is a really nice fish!Quote:
Originally Posted by def90
Great fish. I wish I could remember to take pics when fishing, but I just want to get my fly back on the water
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I was between Laramie and Casper in the Shirley Basin area on private property.
Kind of wildlife and related...
These little guys are all over the place and my Corgi puppies think they're tasty, crunchy snacks.
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And I don't have a clue what this is. It's about 2" long and I've never seen anything like it.
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I could be mistaken, but I think that may be a carpenter ant queen.
I believe it is a Meloe also called a Blister beetle or Oil Beetle.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/284617
Getting my entomology nerd on. Giggle.
I think CN nailed it! Although it looks like there are some variations in these guys the black meloe is probably what that is. Thanks!
Yep, it sure looks like it!
The head and thorax were throwing me. :)
That's a neat site, CN! Something to add to the rabbithole.
Mrs bo doesn't like that the princess is about the bug eatinest dog ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
All of ours run around with their noses to the ground looking for tasty, tasty rabbit raisins. They just can't get enough of them. Gaahhh...
Bobcat?
I saw this guy walking straight towards me and thought it was a young mountain lion. Then he turned and I noticed the stubby tail. He walked into the weeds and a few seconds later I saw his head pop up and was swatting at something with his paw while jumping back. I'm guessing it was a snake of some sort. He walked up the embankment and disappeared.
Crappy, zoomed in pics from cell video but that's all I had.
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Yep, bobcat
The only way to tell if it was a Canada Lynx or a Bobcat is to shoot it and then perform a necropcy.
From the jailhouse?Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
It did make a funny kind of noise...like, "meow, eh."
When it swatted in the brush... did you hear it say 'take off you hoser'...?
The only other thing it said was, "Hey...you tried to bite me. What's that all aboot?"
Yes. Just in case anyone doesn't already know, killing a Canada Lynx is illegal.Quote:
Originally Posted by BladesNBarrels
Too cool. I've recently started hiking here in Colorado, and I'd like to see a predator bigger than a fox. Cat like. :) Or Bear like.
-John
If a moose is a predator I can help you out.
Or a Moose! lol. Would love/will love to encounter a moose in the wild. Too cool! :)
-John
It took me a long time to see a moose in the wild. Not because they are difficult to find, but because I'm a bad native and hadn't spent enough time out in the woods. Now that I know where to look (from people on here telling me exactly where to go), it seems a wonder I ever missed them.
Have you been out in the wilderness with coyotes howling all around you yet? It's different when you're in a tent or on a mountain side, even though it sounds the same as when you're in a neighborhood.
I’ve seen everything but lynx and mtn lion. My last bobcat experience was last fall while archery deer hunting, scared one out of a pile of brush just 10 feet away from me.
Drive Independence Pass out of Aspen in the evening or hang out in Steamboat for a day or two and you are pretty much guaranteed to see a bear. Moose are pretty regular sightings along Peak to Peak highway and if you dont see one on Cameron Pass down in to Walden you have issues with your eyes.
I've had some serious fun tracking a variety of critters and had several bear encounters already this month . Two weeks ago I woke at 4:20 am when I heard a thump on the house. I shined a bright flashlight into the face of a big bear as he stood against the dining room window--only two feet away. At the time I didn't have the electric bear fence up because the snow was too deep, but the next day I did some shoveling, restrung the wires and got it connected. I think he's the same black boar that I've shown on this thread before but he's a lot bigger now.
Monday morning before daylight another bear visited. I didn't see him but the tracks told the story. At sun up I backtracked his prints in the snow. He had come down the driveway and ran into the electric fence and got bit in two places, then went around the cabin along the fence perimeter. My neighbor Charlie also saw him. He visited again Wednesday earlier in the night. From tracks in the snow I found that he'd gone to each of my neighbor's four front doors and around the cars. It is obvious the bears are like bloodhounds, following scents that people leave wherever they go. This time the bear came to our fence but avoided touching the wire. He circled the fence perimeter completely. Mrs. Hummer said, the Indians are circling....but it was comforting to know the fence was working to keep him out.
I followed his tracks up the mountain to where I thought he might have a den under some large boulders. It was snowing and the tracks petered out so I headed over the mountain to a lake a mile away. I found turkey and moose tracks, then some drag marks that soon revealed a Pine Marten had killed a rabbit and was hauling it home. I followed the drag marks a half mile over the mountain and back down into the valley where they ended at an apparent den in a boulder field. It was treacherous climbing down the steep timbered and rocky slope over the snow. I spotted a young bull moose in the willows below where he stood under a tree for shelter from the snow. I wouldn't have seen him if I hadn't been up the mountain. I went over to say hello but he wasn't in the mood to chat.
Last evening at 6:40, I glanced up from the computer to see a bear just outside walking around the fence. This was a bear I hadn't seen before, a young chocolate boar. I snapped a few photos and opened the door to watch and video any interaction with the fence. It was apparent that he knew the fence and was looking for ways to get over it. To my surprise he leaped to bounce off an aspen and vaulted over the polywire. A moment later he was 8 ft. from me in the doorway and looked up when I said, "you'd better go home". He promptly left the way he came in and a few seconds later I popped him in the butt with some rubber buckshot.
The rubber pellets and 12ga. noise is adverse conditioning to keep them at a distance. I don't relish a close encounter of the wrong kind and I certainly don't want to see these magnificent animals hurt. Charlie confirmed it's the same bear he saw Monday because it wore CPW ear tags. I hope he finds a cute girl bear and spends the summer foraging in the high mountains far, far away.
Epilogue: My task this afternoon is to add another hot wire to raise the fence from 36" to 42".
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He looks like he's been doing keto.
Living off his fat all winter long and now he's powerfully hungry. My guess is that he weighs ~75-80 lbs. The big bear that visited 2 weeks ago was maybe 220-250 lbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by CavSct1983
Notice that BooBoo is standing next to the fence where the top wire is at 36". How tall is he?
The electric fence pulses every second so if he touches it between pulses, no shock. Also, as he leaps he is not grounded so even if he contacts the wire as the controller pulses, no shock. Makes me wonder about the effectiveness of portable solar fence units that hunters use in Kodiak country.
Hummer,
Reading your posts is like thumbing through someone's journal. I hope you are keeping one and can pass along all your fond memories some day.
Brutal, you're very kind. Ha! I didn't realize how long that report was, I just kept writing.... No one should read any of that! Next time I'll just do photos. Ha ha ha ha! Carry on.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
Whoa BABY! I'd be needing a bigger skillet for SURE! I practice catch and release, catch them and release them into a hot skillet full of butter, w/a little salt and pepper, lemon on the side.Quote:
Originally Posted by def90
Hiked a local trail a few miles back to the cabin today. Ran across a yearling cow calf feeding in a meadow. This is the time that adult cow moose leave their young from the previous year to go off and give birth to a new calf. This little gal appeared to be by herself.
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Prime Time on the Hummingbird Network:
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It was crazy with hummers tonight. We have ~10 feeders out and a neighbor has about as many. All of them looked like this. We're feeding several thousand Broad-tailed Hummingbirds daily now.