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Look what I found tonight off county rd 7.
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The COAR "Frog Lady". Sounds better than "Toad Lady".
Those are cool. We get these really big toads around here. They make huge toad logs. I thought is was goose poop first time I saw it.
^^^In a field somewhere^^^[Dunno]
Ol Macdonalds farm.
On hwy 109 right between Genoa and Hugo. That picture was taken facing straight West.
Today?s wildlife.
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Sun turtle? We have lots of them out here. Mrs bo worries that she might whack one with the brush hog.
Living good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
I have seen elk out as far east as Las Animas area. Is surprising to see them out that far from the mountains.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Had a yellow headed blackbird in the backyard.
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I'm under the impression that before we hunted most of our big game to extinction, will share the plains with bison and other grazers. So we shouldn't be surprised, but I still am every time.Quote:
Originally Posted by whitewalrus
Elk went as far as the East coast back in the day.
I knew a guy who hunted elk out east of Limon. He always bagged some nice bulls out there.
They are in Pennsylvania today!Quote:
Originally Posted by CavSct1983
I forgot an important piece of information about those elk!
They were at 120 yards.
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Originally Posted by Irving
That is a fine example of the North American big game management method. Elk will again become plains animals, but I would guess some elk populations will still inhabit high elevation tundra and spruce-fir forests.
Are you familiar with the American Prairie Reserve project? I think it's pretty interesting. https://www.americanprairie.org/Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
Dan Flores is always pitching for it when he does podcast interviews.
EDIT: That reminds me that I need to read Coyote America by Dan Flores and America Before by Graham Hancock. Ordered just now.
Very cool birds, I love their honking call from the cattail wetlands. You're lucky to have them on the eastern plains. They are rare or uncommon on the western slope. I've only once had a few Yellow-headed Blackbirds briefly visit our feeders in Central Orchard Mesa outside Palisade. It's a species in rapid decline due to habitat loss.Quote:
Originally Posted by CavSct1983
No, but I'll look into it. Working like a dog on the Palisade farm now. Sheesh, it's hot here and the mosquitos are out in force.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Only through reintroduction, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
https://www.americanforests.org/maga...key-mountains/
Reintroduction is the reason Colorado and most other states in the US today still have elk.Quote:
Originally Posted by CavSct1983
The main point being that while we associate Elk w/ the mountains in a modern context, and thus the idea of them on the plains is fascinating, historically we had them all over. I think we are bugling passed each other on this one. :D
Sounds like it.
Nebraska has an elk season, no mountains there...
I?ve seen elk in Oklahoma.
American Kestrels used a nest box on our Palisade house this year. Only three eggs were laid with two apparently infertile so this lone male chick gets all the mice, lizards and grasshoppers it wants. Kestrels (our smallest American falcon) also nested in another box in an apricot tree on the farm.
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I build a lot of nesting boxes that get used. Never seen a more freaked out chick though... you must be the first thing it's ever seen.
-lol not that I'm calling you scary looking... i wouldnt know. Giggle
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My daughter keeps asking me to ask Steve about the otters.
I'm the first purple people monster it has ever seen. But chicks typically have their mouths open anytime one approaches the box because they expect to be fed when something arrives. And yes, I'm sure I'm pretty scary to young chicks.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickNorris
I see what you did there. : )Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
We saw otter tracks and slides last winter but no animals here since. Did watch an otter at Beaver Reservoir on April 27, and our first ever mink over the snow on the river from the house on March 27. Haven't seen otters at Beaver Reservoir since. Looked yesterday. The lake is higher than I've seen in many years. Lots of water this year is great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
We have four dippers in the nest box now. They'll fledge in another week. The first since the 2013 flood. Always good fun.
Having seen those dippers in person, those are cool to have around.
What can I say, it's real and I'm Boy Scout honest. 🙂Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickNorris
You should see them soon, before they fledge. I might band the chicks tomorrow. Your family and Chick N will get an invite to our Moose Packing Party July 21.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
I've seen several moose recently, a cow with newborn calf a ways up canyon, and two big bulls near Brainard yesterday. This evening I walked through the forest to a small meadow a hundred yards from the cabin and came upon a yearling bull. At first he spooked and sprinted ten yards. I gave a soft bull grunt and he returned walking within about six yards of me. I mimicked feeding on shrubs, shaking them a bit. He walked a bit closer feeding along the way. I was just another, funny looking moose.
I think that a mark of woods experience, is knowing when you can be loud (i.e. sounding like an animal doing loud animal things).
Here's a shot this morning of the young bull I spotted last night. He's munching on young aspen trees.
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