Wildlife

[JimmyCarter]

Cape cod wildlife

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[yeahman]

I love loons. We get them here sometimes but only briefly during migration season. They remind me of northern michigan, wisconsin, northern ontario--places I spent time a long time ago.

Yes there's no place like the midwest for loons. Minnesota is where I grew up and where we are visiting this week. I love listening to them. (My dad's loon ringtone hmmm not so much bc I am always fooled for a microsecond.) We saw saltwater loons occasionally when we lived on Whidbey Island in Washington, and once in a while we see them in Montana, but Minnesota is really the place where I reconnect. It is the state bird after all.

[old goat]

Yes there's no place like the midwest for loons. Minnesota is where I grew up and where we are visiting this week. I love listening to them. (My dad's loon ringtone hmmm not so much bc I am always fooled for a microsecond.) We saw saltwater loons occasionally when we lived on Whidbey Island in Washington, and once in a while we see them in Montana, but Minnesota is really the place where I reconnect. It is the state bird after all.

Thought the state bird was the mosquito. Ha ha. Sorry.

[yeahman]

Thought the state bird was the mosquito. Ha ha. Sorry.

Hardly seen a mosquito in MN in years since they started spraying the shit out of the place. When I was growing up it was a different story.

[Flyoverland Captive]

You need to spend an August evening at my cabin near Brimson. You’ll lose 5# of blood.

[AlpiNord]

Not quite ‘wildlife’ because the deer are pretty tame, but two newborns were dropped in bad spots between the driving range and 1st fairway.




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[babybear]

ooooh adorable!
and then they just try to lay there like they are hiding. their deer mom is negligent

[thefortrees]

Came across 5 or 6 baby raccoons hanging out around the trails near my hood early in the AM. Tried to get some better shots with my phone, but the little buggers are fast and the lighting wasn’t the best. Hilarious watching them keep climbing circles around and up the tree to avoid us.

[hutash]

Good a place as any to put this...

Lions kill suspected rhino poachers who sneaked onto South African game reserve

Suspected poachers sneaked onto a South African game reserve to hunt rhinos, but a pride of lions found them instead.
A guide at the Sibuya Game Reserve spotted what appeared to be human remains on Tuesday near the group of lions, according to reserve owner Nick Fox. It was getting too dark to search the area, so police came back the next day with the reserve's anti-poaching unit and other specialists.
The remains were strewn over an area covered with thick brush and Fox said it was impossible to know how many people were killed.
Investigators did find three pairs of boots and three pairs of gloves.

They also found a high-powered rifle with a silencer, wire cutters and an ax that Fox said would have been used to remove a slain rhino's horns.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/world...rnd/index.html

[jorion]

Interesting NYTimes Magazine piece on an ostracized WSU wolf researcher.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/m...scientist.html

[old goat]

ooooh adorable!
and then they just try to lay there like they are hiding. their deer mom is negligent

You're right. The middle of the fairway would be much safer. No one hits balls there.

[hutash]

Hell , the way most people play golf the green would be safer still.

[old goat]

Hell , the way most people play golf the green would be safer still.

I like to play ready golf--when I'm at the green with someone hitting an approach that's exactly where I stand.

[babybear]

a little prongy on the way into the hike today

[babybear]

Came across 5 or 6 baby raccoons hanging out around the trails near my hood early in the AM. Tried to get some better shots with my phone, but the little buggers are fast and the lighting wasn’t the best. Hilarious watching them keep climbing circles around and up the tree to avoid us.

baby raccoons are so damn cute. but pesky and almost too smart
we dont have too many raccoons around here. tons where I grew up in VT though- always in the trash
I used to have a trapping co (catch and release only) in Jackson and never saw any raccoons. mostly skunks

[plugboots]

Interesting NYTimes Magazine piece on an ostracized WSU wolf researcher.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/m...scientist.html

Good article. We’ve been following Wielgus, since we lived in E. WA, and have a daughter at WSU, (and I’m a biology major). Most ranchers for better or worse do not want to change, and incorporating wolf presence requires change. Also, the redneck method of believing anecdotal evidence vs. statically based science is typically preferred in these rural areas.
To be frank these ranchers act like their work is so hard, but really it’s not hard at all, and gives them tons of free time that they don’t want to give up.

[skiing-in-jackson]

With my daughter, I witnessed an ermine/chiseler (prairie dog) death match on the bike path. Going up fish hatchery hill. It was really something. The ermine seemed out of place. Usually they are higher up in the mountains.

The ermine was way smaller than the prairie dog, yet he definitely had my bet. He was a ferocious little guy.

[crashtestdummy]

[skiing-in-jackson]

^^^ Whatever you do, you want to make sure you are not reincarnated as a Wyoming prairie dog. They are on everybody's menu.

[babybear]

neat sighting- yea the ermine seem like they'd be much higher considering they even stay at high altitude even in the winter (love those sublette/ alta face ermine tracks we occasionally catch in the winter!)

on a sim note andrew's dad sent us this snake pic this wk
also have seen a snake eating a fish when rafting the canyon which was creepy but neat

[Conundrum]

I was supposed to be picking morels but I was hungover and stoned so I sat on a log and watched this pileated woodpecker own this stump for about 20 minutes.

I took some slowmo iPhone video that turned out cool.

[rideit]

With my daughter, I witnessed an ermine/chiseler (prairie dog) death match on the bike path. Going up fish hatchery hill. It was really something. The ermine seemed out of place. Usually they are higher up in the mountains.

The ermine was way smaller than the prairie dog, yet he definitely had my bet. He was a ferocious little guy.

Slightly OT, but I love those reflective elk.

[skiing-in-jackson]

These are the reflective elk to which rideit refers. The silhouettes are meant to remind drivers there is heavy elk migration in these areas.

Snapped this on the way into town: Off to the left you'll see the cut out:



On the way back out of town, a close up. They are nice to see at night. I'm not sure they have done anything for wildlife/car collisions.



This is the same spot where I saw the ermine last week. The other day I saw a badger up close and personal. He was a big one.

[zion zig zag]

The other day I saw a badger up close and personal. He was a big one.

I was camping at the Death Canyon trailhead back in the spring and woke up in the middle of the night to take a leak. As I was standing there watching the stars and trying to get things going, a big old badger lumbered right past me. Scared the piss out of me. He didn't even glance my way.

[Garth Bimble]

a couple shots from a trap cam I set up on my property the other day: