They often snort when they get nervous. Usually if they see you but can't smell you, or vise versa - can't make out what you are.
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They often snort when they get nervous. Usually if they see you but can't smell you, or vise versa - can't make out what you are.
This going in the What you put on the smoker thread ?
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I think this mostly fits with the scenarios in which I've been snorted.Quote:
Originally Posted by davsel
STRIP CLUB ROAD TRIP !Quote:
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Great photos of wonderful scenes. Looks like many lakes I've been to along the divide from the Indian Peaks to the Rawahs. Where were these taken?
Did you dip a line in?
With all the other hummingbirds gone, last Tuesday we had a late migrant show up, a hatch year male Black-chinned. He's been here intermittently since, feeding on flowers, feeders and the abundant fruit flies. Just before and during migration hummers build fat nearly doubling their weight which helps them in the long flight to Mexico for the winter. Note the tiny head on the big body appearance which is very different from a breeding season hummingbird. This guy is bulging with fat around the neck, belly and back. Haven't seen him this morning, maybe he's moved on....
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Yesterday, my friend Kate in Cordova, Alaska, discovered an Anna's Hummingbird coming to her feeder during a snowstorm. If she's able to catch and document it today, it will be the first banding record of an Anna's Hummingbird in southcentral AK.
The first one you quoted is Lock Vale, and second is Sky Pond, both in the Rocky Mountain National Park. It's a really fun hike, strenuous but only a nine mile round trip. I don't fish at the moment.Quote:
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Found this guy in someone else's garden, brought it home for the kid, and we let it go in our garden. We found him again a few days later as well, so hopefully he survived the cold snaps and will get to turn into an Eagle or whatever something of this size turns into. This thing takes dumps big enough that the second time we found it, we tracked him like an elk and followed his droppings.
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Here he is in the background with some normal sized caterpillar.
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White-tail buck vs some poor, starving raccoons. Also, something is howling at 2:32. Doesn't sound like a coyote to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DnZg-U3fpA
Horned tomato worm, don't think I want him in my garden.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Side note benefit-they splat really good.
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Put him in garden after the season. Thanks for the name.
I see these huge bees once every couple of years, usually in the mountains. What kind of bee is this monster? If ever there was a bee that the whole "Bees shouldn't be able to fly" theory applied to, it'd be this guy. EDIT: Looks like it might be an Orange Belted Bumble-Bee.
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Looks like a Tri-Colored Bumble Bee (Bombus ternarius)
Yep, that is the other name according to some webpage I found. Pretty cool. Daughter said she saw it yesterday, and I saw it myself today.
Their stingers tear off in you and some gland keeps pumping venom when you get stung, I swell like a tomato. Ask me how I know.
The thing I read said that their stingers are not barbed, so it doesn't pull off and they can sting you multiple times.
I find that bees generally mind their own business though. I was practically touching this one to get a decent shot of him.
The judges have selected the best works from over 2,000 submissions.
The organizers of the international contest, the Сomedy Wildlife Photography Awards, selected 40 best photographs submitted by participants in 2016, Design You Trust writes.
The winner whose name will be announced by the end of October will receive photography equipment from Nikon and a chance to join a one-week safari in Kenya.
Here are the 19 finalist -
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Those are fantastic! I'd have a hard time choosing the best one...though I do like the frog.
Don't think I ever posted any of my hunting pictures (except for the animals). Sorry in advance for cell phone photos.
We all saw this cloud at about the same time and briefly wondered if Colorado Springs had been nuked while we were out hunting. This is also the same meadow where we spotted the herd. Having never seen more than a handful of elk together in my life, and only an occasional lone spike while hunting, this was pretty exciting. We practically ran up the hill after them. *There are no elk in this photo, we saw them later in the week.
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Screen shot from a video of me feeding a doe at the cabin. At some point, I may put all my videos together of this year's hunt and slap it up on Youtube.
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Opening day. It was foggy all morning, cleared up when the sun came out, then a "cloud" visibly crashed over the mountain and you could see the mist sparkling every where you looked. Camera phone of course can't do it justice.
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I was certain this was a bear track. I was extremely excited to find a bear though. I'll let you be the judge. I saw more of these, but this was the only photo I took.
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Elk skulls and remains pretty common in the area.
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I thought for sure this was a black bear, and it immediately got my heart pounding. You don't often see black in nature. I had also hiked out further than ever before and was in a relatively new territory. I was nervous that I was going to get the bear I wanted so badly, but have a hard time finding it again. Turns out it was just a charred log and I wasn't that far from familiar territory.
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This area was logged in the 50's-70's?? Not sure, but all the trash is old.
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Kind of adverse to what we usually post up in this thread, but if no one has ever seen a blood trail before, here you go.
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And of course the obligatory, annual, shot of a magpie standing on a mule deer.
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Looks like a great area to be in. Iron sights for Elk?
Yeah, no optics allowed for muzzleloader or archery season.
Pretty sad I don't know what season it is. Great pics, would love to be out there hunting but didn't get a tag this year.
We all start somewhere. Five years ago my uncle invited me to hunt with him and I said Heck Yeah and ran out and bought a Savage in .308. Then three years ago when we finally drew tags, he told me, again, "I told you this is muzzleloader season, you bought the wrong gun." So I had to run out and buy a muzzleloader and learn to use it in the few months before my first ever hunting trip. Muzzleloader season is mid-September by the way.
I like that glass bottle. Cool.
Glass bottle got carried out in tact. We also brought out an old Budweiser can and an old Pepsi can. The Pepsi can was in a draw that allowed it to be in the shade most of the time and aged very well. I'll go snap a picture of it real quick.
Promise I won't post anymore trash pictures in the Wildlife thread.
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This thread has given me a brand new appreciation for birds, which I previously cared very little about. Now Crows are one of my favorite animal, and I just heard about this today on the radio.
Check out this article about common swifts. Make sure you read the very last line of the article, even though it's not about Swifts.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...onths-straight
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Scientists have long suspected that the common swift remains airborne for extraordinary amounts of time during its annual migration.Now, a team of scientists in Sweden has proved that these birds fly for tremendously long periods of time. They affixed data loggers onto a total of 19 of the master fliers in 2013 and 2014, and recaptured the birds months or years later. Researchers found that the birds can spend almost their entire 10-month nonbreeding period on the wing.
Here is a fascinating documentary about Crows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r_xKdfkLcI
LOL!
Took these last week northwest colorado
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