Wildlife & Related

[davsel]

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.

[waffles]

[Great-Kazoo]

This going in the What you put on the smoker thread ?

[Irving]

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.

I think this mostly fits with the scenarios in which I've been snorted.

[Great-Kazoo]

I think this mostly fits with the scenarios in which I've been snorted.

STRIP CLUB ROAD TRIP !

[waffles]

[Hummer]

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?

[Hummer]

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....






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.

[waffles]

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?

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.

[Irving]

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.



Here he is in the background with some normal sized caterpillar.