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Thread: Wildlife
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07-25-2021, 11:41 PM #976
Thanks! Good times for sure....
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07-26-2021, 08:55 AM #977
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07-26-2021, 09:10 AM #978Registered User
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07-26-2021, 10:35 AM #979
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07-26-2021, 12:42 PM #980
I would think a beaver that didn't know how to drop a tree would get squashed before it had a chance to breed.
For north tahoe truckee folks--if you hike east from the PCT trailhead parking south of I80 and east of Boreal the pond on your right about a 1/4 mile up the trail is a beaver pond and I've seen beaver there. OTOH the "beaver pond" marked on the trail sign at the Summit Canyon trailhead doesn't look like much of a pond. Has anyone ever seen beaver there? Maybe it was a beaver pond at one time. (If you hike that trail stop at the Kathy Polucha Kessler overlook and remember Kathy--a wonderful woman who died in the La Traviata avalanche near Revelstoke in 2003. If you live at Donner Lake she's a big part of the reason you have water to drink.)
There used to be beaver in Donner Lake--one followed our boat with a trolling motor halfway around the lake once. The state park folks killed the beaver because they were girdling too many trees.
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07-26-2021, 02:20 PM #981
It's not a matter of getting squashed, the ones in this neighborhood just drop them like matchsticks in every direction instead of downhill into the water. And they seem to pick the trees that are just uphill of the trail...
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07-26-2021, 02:47 PM #982
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07-26-2021, 11:15 PM #983
Freakin’ NIMBY beavers, I tell ya
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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07-27-2021, 12:11 AM #984
They are rodents. And breed as such. They are more likely to over-populate a habitat and mass die-off from disease and starvation. And then the pond renews, and if there are beaver elsewhere in the watershed, they will return. I've worked in areas that were fallow from beaver for 50+ yrs, then a breeding pair move in and within 2 season, the valley is flooded again, and even the offending pitchy spruce are felled to make room. And in 20yrs or so the cycle starts over again.
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07-27-2021, 11:10 AM #985
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07-27-2021, 10:42 PM #986
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07-28-2021, 10:33 AM #987
Nice family!
Despite the chance of getting sprayed I would MUCH rather see these guys alive and well than flattened on the road. I ran into one a couple years ago while bushwhacking around looking for rock to climb and realized it was the first live one I had ever seen in 35 or so years. Great looking critter and pretty funny to watch from a distance.
Park City ungulate trail police :
Another PC ungulate, not raising any alarms with Sam-dog:
A dragon:
"Your wife being mad is temporary, but pow turns do not get unmade" - mallwalker the wise
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07-28-2021, 10:54 AM #988
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08-02-2021, 08:56 PM #989
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08-03-2021, 11:33 AM #990
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08-03-2021, 11:43 AM #991
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08-03-2021, 01:08 PM #992
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08-03-2021, 03:27 PM #993
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08-03-2021, 03:36 PM #994
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08-03-2021, 07:58 PM #995User
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08-04-2021, 09:14 AM #996
Ahh, love those chin whiskers!
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08-09-2021, 07:50 AM #997
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08-13-2021, 11:45 AM #998
We have a bunch of day lilies on our deck which have been attracting hummingbirds. Yesterday there was a small one that spent a lot of time sucking from a bunch of the flowers. My wife told me it wasn't a hummingbird, it was a moth. I told her she was crazy. Turns out I was. Hummingbird moths. Never heard of them before--they hum, their wings beat too fast to see, they suck nectar just like a hummingbird, there bodies look like they could be birds unless you look close. They are smaller than a hummingbird. I didn't take a picture.
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08-13-2021, 12:18 PM #999
I have a picture of one of those hummingbird moths I’ll try to find that was in my garden.
It tripped me out too when I first saw/ learned about them.skid luxury
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08-13-2021, 12:23 PM #1000
Hummingbird moths are fun to watch, and they are important pollinators. I'm not a fan of their larva though.
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