Found roaming in the neighbor's backyard tonight. So you say you can't find your chihuahua after letting it out to do its business? Ya, I haven't see it [emoji1745]Attachment 89620
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Found roaming in the neighbor's backyard tonight. So you say you can't find your chihuahua after letting it out to do its business? Ya, I haven't see it [emoji1745]Attachment 89620
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Originally Posted by arbol
Thanks! It's a solar yard light. Bunny was checking out the wild rose hips. This little one, I'm guessing a male, has been around the yard for about 8 months. It has somehow been lucky enough to survive the nearly nightly coyotes passing through, and the occasional fox and bobcat. This winter it remains in shelter under my wood piles for several days at a time, then comes out to feed for a while when the predators are unlikely to show themselves. It eats cracked corn, milo and sunflower that I put out for the birds.
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That's a great capture. I'm thinking, "leaps tall fences in a single bound". There are predators everywhere and they will appear when least expected.
There's a local message board where residents of Jamestown and surrounding areas regularly post sightings and photos of bobcats, lions, coyotes and bears roaming around neighborhoods. And every week, sometimes several times a week people are posting about their lost cats and dogs. Unbelievable how clueless and careless some people are.
Couple of pics of a colorful little broad-tailed fella that's been visiting the feeder lately. Don't have many hummers here for some reason.
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While we saw our first Black-chinned Hummingbirds in Palisade on Apr 17th, the first Broad-tailed was here off the Peak to Peak on the 26th. A few more birds flowed in but the snow on Monday and again this morning probably moved birds down canyon where conditions are more mild.
Here's a pic of a feeder this morning. I have other feeders protected under the eaves. One male hummer visited this morning. We've had about 5" of snow so far today.
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That's cool. I'd like to know how to care for a hive of bees.
Very camera-shy Blue Jay guarding babies...
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^^^ nice pictures!^^^
Why we have an electric bear fence:
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RMNP 6.11.22
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So fun to see moose, especially young of the year calves with mom. Your last pic appears to be a yearling cow.
Our yard trail cams have recently shown both a yearling bull and a yearling cow. A pregnant mom hasn't shown for a while but I expect we'll see her soon, with babe.
Also lately is Bob, our neighborhood bobcat who seems to have decimated our rabbit population. Same with a weasel and the area voles, chipmunks and ground squirrels. Now we have our own yard marmot. I'm sure that Bob would love yard marmot. We like marmots but if he eats my wife's penstemons, well, that wouldn't be good. We've never eaten marmot before. [Dinner]
Gorgeous pictures, all.
Hummer, that Bear picture is something else! [panic]
-John
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He does look pretty menacing. Three videos from two trail cams in the yard show that he's a pretty big fella.
This evening just before 6 p.m., my cousin spotted a bear cross our driveway and head through the forest toward our place. At 8:20, Mrs. Hummer and I spotted the bear in our little meadow about 40 ft. from us. It is a smaller, younger bear than the one on the cams from May 15. I expect it will be back overnight and I'll check the cams in the morning. Not good when bears come around during daylight hours. I'll need to keep the electric perimeter fence energized during the day now. In summer I keep a 12 gauge handy, loaded with 3 rounds of rubber buckshot and rubber ball, then 3 magnum slugs. I hope to haze this little one before it becomes a problem bear.
I did a hike in SW Colorado, and we were hiking up a gravel road to an abandoned town where we were going to spend the night before tackling a couple of 13ers the next day. As we are midway through hiking up the gravel road, a 4x4 or two past us, and the first one said, "Did you see that bear?! Biggest bear I have ever seen!"
I/we had not seen a bear. :o
Please keep us updated. Seems like a pretty serious issue where you are.
-John
Have a buddy who lives in Grant right at the base of Kenosha Pass.
He was up in the middle of the night and had the front door open (he has a screened storm door) to let in some cooler air. A young bear busted thru the screen right into his house, wandered down the hall with my buddy screaming at him. The bear then nonchalantly walked thru the living room and out the closed screen on the patio sliding door. The bear showed no signs of aggression, but no signs of fear, either.
He called DOW this morning. They had reports from two of his neighbors that the bear tried to get into their homes, too. Naturally, DOW is gonna trap and kill the bear. It just doesn't pay to be a bear any more, because there are so many stupid people (not my buddy...he knows how to live in bear country) who violate every rule for living in bear country, that will get you killed just because you're hungry. Frankly, I'd rather have less people and more bears.
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I've never seen a horse with legs like that...
Yesterday I watched a cow with a very young calf try to cross the river but it was too deep for the young one....They both headed back to chomp willow along the stream.
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Yesterday, I saw that one of the kestrel chicks had fledged from the nest box on the Palisade farm house. American Kestrels are the smallest North
American falcon. I moved an orchard ladder to the box and poked my phone camera in the entrance to snap a photo. There were three more young close to fledging. One fledged the nest later in the afternoon, and the last two this morning. Today, all four young are arrayed on trees around the yard, screaming their new found falconness in hope of being fed another mouse, grasshopper or lizard. Pickings are slim given the dry conditions. The adult kestrels follow me around as I irrigate the wildlife shelter belt, protesting my presence and uncaring that I provided some 35 generations of kestrels with clean, free housing.
A little distressing are the eight baby magpies and four adults wandering the yard looking for any meaty morsel. The Gambel's Quail chicks haven't a chance.
At our home in NW Boulder County, we again have American Dippers nesting in a box in the stream by the cabin. I've placed about 35 of these boxes on rivers around the state since 1984. Several boxes within a few miles are currently in use now. I expect that four dipper chicks will fledge our in stream nest box sometime between July 3-8. If the river is amenable I hope to band the dippers before they fledge.
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Fascinating!
Thanks for posting.
Two bulls foraging through the yard munching on fireweed and aspen. We want to save both the flowers and the aspen so I asked them to move on.
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Very cool, Hummer.
Those are some PBS documentary worthy shots.
Gorgeous!
-John
{maybe I can use this as an argument to not mow my lawn}
Thanks Arbol,
The first two, obviously, are screen captures from trail cam videos, the other with my real camera. The Browning Spec Ops cams get great images. I have four but want more. In the past few days they've caught coyote, deer, bear and even a night shot of a Great Horned Owl catching a vole below the dining room window.
Fwiw, as a kid I had a thriving lawn mowing business. I later decided I'd never have a lawn, only wildland grasses and flowers. At the Palisade farm I mow the grasses twice a year. Never at the cabin.
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Last Saturday, I heard some panicked screaming right outside the window. Thought it might be a Cooper's Hawk that took down a sapsucker, but no. Walked out to find a Long-tailed Weasel with a death grip on a young cottontail rabbit. I scared off the weasel but bunny was dying. The weasel soon returned and hauled it off. The rabbit probably weighed twice as much as the weasel.
Weasels kill by a bite through the skull or the spinal cord in the neck. It was violent and the screaming was distressing because we like having the bunnies around, but the weasel is probably feeding young too. The weasel was small, so probably a female. Last summer we watched a weasel kill a chipmunk. This year our property is devoid of chipmunks and ground squirrels, and there are fewer tree squirrels.
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The rabbit deserved it.
I have lost count of how many wires I've had to fix because of cotton tails around here. I'm on scorched earth level with them
Banding birds in Sedona recently I caught this hybrid male Rivoli's x Black-chinned Hummingbird. It is smaller than a Rivoli's (Magnificent) and larger than a Black-chinned. Hummingbirds do hybridize occasionally but there is no record of this hybrid combination. He's truly unique, a one of a kind individual.
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I had a helper tonite while canning green beans.
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Caught on one of the yard trail cams walking through before dark. We've seen him once in the evening about 30 ft, from us, and on the cams several times at night. Just one of the neighbors. Maybe he'll bring us a pic-a-nic basket from the campground nearby.
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A cow and calf moose running through the forest this morning a 7:19 a.m. This is a screen capture from video which was pretty dramatic. Without the trail cams we would have little knowledge of what's happening in our yard.
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Cool! What's your elevation up there?
Removed this guy from the entryway at work the other night:
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Then this little guy from the doorway at my ex?s place (did it for the children):
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I almost picked up the little one, then noticed the shape of it?s head.
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I thought my camera was moved a different direction.
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Living dangerously behind my 200 yard target.
Saw my first Coatimundi today on the patio. I was standing inside by the French doors directly under the camera. Didn't have my phone handy but here's a security still of him. Additional stock image below since the angle isn't great.
Admittedly the first words out of my mouth were 'What the fook IS that?'
^^ That is cool! ^^
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