Wildlife & Related

[Hummer]

Lewis's Woodpecker at the tray feeders










Clark's Nutcrackers on elk ribs hanging outside the dining room window

[Hummer]

A Woodhouse' Scrub Jay (formerly known as Western Scrub Jay)







Spotted Towhee (formerly called Rufous-sided Tohwee, and previously Red-eyed Towhee)

[iego]

Great photos! Mama Moose does look like she means business!

-John

[Hummer]

Great photos! Mama Moose does look like she means business!

-John

Yea, this time she let me know I'd be given no quarter. I've encountered her several times and she's usually tolerant of a respectful approach. I believe she's the same cow I've shown on earlier pages in this thread. But she and the calves have been using a trail frequented by skiers and mountain bikers and I suspect people and their dogs have made her more wary.

[Fentonite]

Lewis's Woodpecker at the tray feeders

Beautiful.

[Hummer]

I spotted this guy hunting voles in a meadow this afternoon. A pretty healthy looking bobcat.

[Hummer]

The neighbors stopped by this morning to say howdy. Looking for free beer, no doubt. Those neighbors!








This afternoon I went up to a lake a mile from the house and was delighted to watch 3 River Otters swimming, sunning, running and sliding on the snow. What fun!

The pic of the one swimming is from about 40 yards, and the two on the snow are about 350 yards away.

[Bailey Guns]

Damn...I've missed a lot of great stuff in this thread. Nice pics, Hummer...lots of 'em.

[Hummer]

We had 5 inches of snow overnight, but decided to brave the high winds and go up to the lake again this morning. Much of the lake was covered in slush and floating ice sheets. We saw three otters catching

and eating fish, and a bald eagle trying to steal fish from them.... The half-acre ice sheet the otters were on was being blown downwind across the lake. It was like right out of Wild America!









I'm gradually getting some good videos of it all.

[Irving]

Horse vs moose?