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Estes Park Elk Festival this weekend.
Worn out Saturday morning
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Biggest boy on the golf course Saturday evening
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The younger ones hung out sparing with each other and waiting for a chance
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We just drove through there this evening on the way home from Winter Park. Didn't get as close as you did to anything.
Here is a shot from the trail under the Gondola in Winter Park.
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Lake Granby
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They will also play dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
The fall bird migration is well underway. This Hermit Thrush was catching bugs in the yard. Closely related to robins but a little smaller, it is recognizable by its bold triangular spots in the front and the bright rust colored tail and rump. It breeds in the higher mountain forests and is known for singing one of the most beautiful bird songs.
Listen to the first two songs on this web page and you should be able to recognize it when you hear it in the woods: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/..._Thrush/sounds
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It never fails. I go out to sight my rifle right before season starts, and antelope are just hanging out. If I were smarter, I'd have everything figured out way sooner and not scare them away right before the season. That was at about 580 yards.
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You were conditioning them to disturbance and the sight and sound of people shooting. Maybe they'll come closer during
season.
I'll be headed out soon to NW CO to look for a fat pronghorn buck.)
That's what I'm hoping. Years before I hunted, I would shoot out there all day, and they'd walk within 200 yards of where I was standing, downrange.
This morning in Palisade, the 4th state record of the species, banded and released. I captured the first state record in 2002.
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What is the metric for the record? Color? Amount of adorable?
On the topic of hummingbirds, I recently learned that a praying mantis can attack and eat hummingbirds. Just in case that comes up in Trivial Pursuit.
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The record is of the occurrence of the species in the state of Colorado as documented through photographic and descriptive evidence and accepted by the Colorado Bird Records Committee. As only the 4th found here it is a very rare bird in CO.
Interesting that all it takes is a photo of a bird, but photos of wolves, elk, moose, etc aren't accepted as being present on an area.
Well those species are already on the state list but if you were to discover a Tule elk in Colorado that would be a new record
Imagine that, a turkey on N. Turkey Creek Rd.
Flew right over the truck just after I took the photo. Skinny.
Saw some wide bodied birds and a lot of them about 5 miles up another canyon the same day, no time for pictures though.
I already knew that. Got something that can help on those darn pink wedge Entertainment (from before you were born) questions? [Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
I picked up a bunch of stuff on my antelope hunt. They look like a fossilized something (probably plant), bezoars, and maybe a tooth?
Fossil
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Bezoars
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Tooth, or Indian Love Stone?
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Bottom center one looks like a mushroomed bullet in your pic.
It does in the picture, but not in person.
There was no entertainment before I was born.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gman
Were rocks even readily available when you were born?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Hehehe
Back then they were still mud.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
We didn't call it mud...it was ooze.
[Coffee]
[LOL]..
Primordial ooze?
My brother in laws back yard.
From yesterday in wyoming.
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This was over 2 feet in diameter. Mating pieces
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The stuff is out there if you take the time to go look.
Those were all ammonites from 65 million to 140 million years ago when wyoming was under water
Where were those guys back in Sept?Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickNorris
Probably the same place, where you couldn't get them. [Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by def90
It looks like I'll have to keep the electric fence energized. I thought the bears would den up with the very cold temps but not so with this bear. Yogi visited twice in the morning, first at 12:11 am. I went to bed about that time, then noticed a light was on. It was the motion detector light over the dining room window. There he was licking up a little bird seed I'd put out for the bunny. I shooed him off with the shotgun, but he returned before 4 a.m.
When the snow builds up to touch the electric fence wire it interferes with the conduction so Mrs. Hummer disconnected it last week. I'll have to shovel snow or disconnect the lowest wire.
Funny, I still have a valid bear license but not for this area.
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On Friday night a bull moose crossed the river and walked through the yard and messed up the fence wire. He might get a little shock next time.
That's a good looking bear.
Yea, he'd look better stuffed and on a platform in my living room. He is really impressive when you look out the dining room window and see him a mere 6 feet away. Mrs. Hummer saw him too and said, "that's a big bear!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving