Wildlife at the airport - Honey badger don't care...

[TriggerHappy]

Overheard a united pilot this morning telling ground control about an "un-identifiable" animal on the taxiway. The pilot, being a "CO native", called it an "overweight prairie dog" and ground asked if it was really a Sasquatch?... It was an interesting conversation over frequency. I was intrigued, so I headed that way. It was aN American Badger, and he looked a bit confused and pissed. I have never seen one of those, here, before and the last time I saw one must have been over 10 years ago.

[Irving]

I've never seen on and I'm a CO Native. An "over weight Prairie Dog" description would have made me guess a Marmot personally.

[Big Wall]

I saw 3 of them trotting along a dirt road east of town about 3 years ago. It was the first time I had ever seen one.

[sniper7]

I saw one not long ago in estes

[Limited GM]

I saw one between Rock Springs, WY and Rawlins. Fugger was pretty aggressive when I jumped out of the car. He almost collected a .40 for his disposition.

[mcantar18c]

I've never seen on and I'm a CO Native. An "over weight Prairie Dog" description would have made me guess a Marmot personally.

Except for marmots don't live at low altitude (below ~8000 feet or so).

[Irving]

Except for marmots don't live at low altitude (below ~8000 feet or so).

He said it was a pilot, so obviously they were at high altitude. I win.

[Monky]

He said it was a pilot, so obviously they were at high altitude. I win.

They do sit rather high up on the runway

[mevshooter]

Overheard a united pilot this morning telling ground control about an "un-identifiable" animal on the taxiway.

They were still on the ground.

You lose.

[rondog]

I was coming back from Kansas late one night and needed a bathroom really bad, so I stopped at Ben Lomond Gun Club to use a portajohn. Decided to look around afterwards with a flashlight and pick up some brass while I was there.

I was on range 4, and hear a wierd clicking noise. There was two badgers that had come out of a den dug into one of the side berms, and they were rather pissed that I'd disturbed their peaceful evening. The clicking was them snapping their jaws. They couldn't see me because I had my Jeep parked and running, with the headlights shining down the range.

I just moved over to another range and let 'em be. Yeah, looking for brass at 2am with a flashlight, I'm pretty fucked up I guess.