Family back there in the North woods are pretty worked up.Quote:
Originally Posted by DenverGP
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Family back there in the North woods are pretty worked up.Quote:
Originally Posted by DenverGP
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
From what I gather, no matter how long wolves have been around in an area, people generally either love them or hate them.
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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.
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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!
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Human remains found in black bears after Colorado woman is killed
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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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Horny toads were out, nice sunset central wyoming friday night.
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crappy service out here in the middle of nowhere
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Enjoy your holiday weekend
Came across this 7' bull snake while fishing in Pueblo.
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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?
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.
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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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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Originally Posted by Irving
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.
Hot and dry in Wyoming last week. Not many prairie dogs.
Doesn?t look terribly dry in the picture you posted above.Quote:
Originally Posted by henpecked
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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Looking at your pictures is always a great way to start a day, Hummer. Thanks.
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Negative... Not even a little.
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OMG, too cute.
A birdhouse in the middle of a stream?