Wildlife & Related

[Hummer]

Here's some photos snagged from trail cam videos taken last evening. Mama moose brought baby to our yard to show where the good eats are. And they are eating our hummingbird flower plants. I'm sitting next to the door watching hummers. It was the beginning of prime time before dark with thousands of hummingbirds staging and parrying for spots at the feeders.

Our little hummingbird meadow in the forest will soon be filled with colorful native flowers. Some are blooming now including golden banner, purple penstemon and water plant.

[Bailey Guns]

That is one gangly-legged little mooselet...

[Irving]

Here is a mountain goat on Mt. Quandary. I think it was a nanny, but I don't know enough about them to know for sure.

[arbol]

Here is a mountain goat on Mt. Quandary. I think it was a nanny, but I don't know enough about them to know for sure.

Very cool. Quandry is a 14'er. I've been next door and done Atlantic (and tried to do Pacific) which are high 13'ers, and look forward to doing Quandry. Pretty incredible that we get to see Mountain Goats like this, in the wild.

[henpecked]

[henpecked]

Hot and dry in Wyoming last week. Not many prairie dogs.

[ray1970]

Hot and dry in Wyoming last week. Not many prairie dogs.

Doesn?t look terribly dry in the picture you posted above.

[Hummer]

Some yard birds, a family of Gambel's Quail with 19 chicks! I first saw them here 3 days ago when I think they were 1-2 days old.

Also a Gambel's male calling, a male Lesser Goldfinch, a male Brown-headed Cowbird and a handsome male Lazuli Bunting.

[henpecked]

[Hummer]

I think this is the same cow-calf pair I saw and posted on June 19 but the calf has grown and it's coat is darker.

At 6:10 a.m. I found them chomping on the fireweed and had to ask them to move on, and they did. Fireweed is an important pollinator flower throughout the western mountains to northern Alaska. The moose returned this evening to the hummingbird flower meadow and I gently urged them to move out to the raspberries. They can have all the raspberry. mountain maple, alder and aspen leaves they want but stay away from the hummer flowers!





Earlier this evening we saw another cow-calf pair up the road and the calf was larger and almost as dark as the cow.