Wildlife

[J. Barron DeJong]

Anyone remember Jimmy Walker getting into a fight with a rabbit?

It was Dyn-O-Mite!

edit: dammit highangle, you changed it!

hah, was able to grab it for posterity!:

[highangle]

It was Dyn-O-Mite!

edit: dammit highangle, you changed it!

hah, was able to grab it for posterity!:

[Gepeto]

Until it gets your eyes.

A family friend lost an eye to a small hawk several years ago.

Been present to a similar loss in my early teens involving a broad point...

U shur e wasn't practicing his scorp mating call?

I've had a half dozen personal contact awakenings to these crafty fqs

There are less desirable encounters

[KQ]

Some people worry about the squirrels eating at their bird feeders, others.........

[old goat]

Why no, tribal elder ..... tell us the story around the campfire.

Sorry. I don't remember it. I was hoping someone would tell me.

[TBS]

A Clockwise and a Counterclockwise Sidehill Gouger


Rarely seen together

[Bronco]

Thanks for posting, that's pretty strange.

[skiJ]

Some people worry about the squirrels eating at their bird feeders, others.........

KQ - did you see the video this frame is from ?

I am sure it is up-thread ^^^


skiJ

[Norseman]

Saw my first Yellow-Bellied Western Racer snake last week, in Montana.

Thing was fast and aggressive. It buzzed its tail against some dry leaves which made me step back, of course thinking it was a rattler, before I could get a good look. Then it climbed up into a damned tree and I got these photos. It was very attentive to my motion and positioned itself carefully in defense of my every approach.

[rideit]

So, I mentioned this in another thread, but Just saw the damnedest thing...a one year old bear just trucking down pearl Street, right in front of Big Hole BBQ. (Basically a few blocks from Town Square. So cute, but very strange!
I am sure there will be pictures soon. When I saw it I was passing a lady on her phone waiting for the bus, I yelled to her, (in a very calm way ‘Yo, you see the bear?”
She flipped out a little. Was hilarious.

[babybear]

cute little pine marten in the tree.
It was on the mountain so I’d like to imagine that it’s the one that leaves epic tracks on the sublette lift line in the winter

[Jong Lafitte]

Saw my first Yellow-Bellied Western Racer snake last week, in Montana.

Thing was fast and aggressive. It buzzed its tail against some dry leaves which made me step back, of course thinking it was a rattler, before I could get a good look. Then it climbed up into a damned tree and I got these photos. It was very attentive to my motion and positioned itself carefully in defense of my every approach.

Great pics of a nifty little critter. Cool!


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[Brownski]

Missed getting pics of some massive antlers and a weasel this morning but I caught these guys crossing the road

[PB]

So majestic

[Shredhead]

The Hummingbirds have departed for warmer climes.



But I’ve never seen as many Hawk Moths.

[SB]

like

[TBS]

OK, not exactly wild

[bodywhomper]

Do you guys get mulies and black tail deer?

[TBS]

Only mule deer around here - blacktails are on the west side of the crest.
They’ve become a nuisance this year, running into traffic and beating up yapper dogs. My hygienist hit one on her moto coming to work in July.

[old goat]

A huge thanks to the ground squirrels that collected 10 Jeffrey pines worth of cones, ate the nuts, and piled all the cobs and scales neatly in front of the shed I assume they're living under, for me to shovel into the 90 gal yard waste bin. At least 30 gal worth. In 30 years they've never done that. Obviously they're figuring on a big winter.

[liv2ski]

I like the way they think OG.

[old goat]

I went back out and they'd already started a new pile.

[Brownski]

Ok, bird experts, what am I looking at?



northern harrier hawk has been suggested. I thought adolescent bald eagle.

[PB]

Angry Bird?

[Brownski]

A number of knowledgeable people have told me it’s a red tailed hawk, which makes sense.