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Showing posts with label bobcat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bobcat. Show all posts
Friday, December 7, 2018
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Local Colorado Predators - Photos
Black bear
Bobcat
Coyote
Fox
Mink
Raccoon
Skunk
Mountain lion - photo taken two days ago within the
Boulder city limits
Friday, February 17, 2017
In My Sister's Back Yard
Chickadees are beginning to court
Eight weeks ago, the bobcat (mom) with a snack
Three days ago, a bobcat kitten
Great horned owl
Raven
Raven
This is one of a pair of Swainson hawks that we saw today...
Monday, January 23, 2017
Local Wildlife in Snow - Photos
Mountain lion, puma, catamount
Horned owl
Beaver
Deer
Owl
Fox
Rabbit
Chickadee
Bobcat, lynx
Friday, November 25, 2016
Fall Is Here
It's been chilly the past few mornings, but when I looked outside this morning before heading off to the chickens, I decided to bundle up. The forecast had said a low of 24 degrees, but it looked colder out the window. Jeans, ragg wool socks, a T-shirt, sneakers, my quilted jacket, and a red and green striped pointed hat with elf ears sewn on and a big jingle bell on the end. A lot of people driving down the roads did a double-take, and then waved at me this morning. I smiled and waved back to everyone. Bounced up the steps onto the bus and jingled all the way - made the bus driver laugh. It was 17 degrees (F) when I left the house, and 27 when I returned an hour later.
The hens were ready to come out, but their water bowl was almost dry, so I had to rinse and refill it. I scattered some scratch and beans for them to snack on today. Carter, the tom cat, definitely wanted to come outside and wander, but Xuxa, the girl, decided to stay inside where it was much warmer. I'll get everyone back inside again at dusk.
The bobcat is still around in my usual house-sitting neighborhood. My brother-in-law was sitting at the dining room table, doing paper work, when he saw a movement on the patio. He looked out, and the bobcat was investigating the sliding glass door and the picnic table, then it nosed around the woodpile, where the mink lives. Jim got up to get his camera, and the bobcat went across the yard to one of the big cottonwood trees, and Jim said that it bounded up into the foliage in the blink of an eye - two leaps and it had disappeared. Since the bobcat has been in the neighborhood for 2 weeks now, I sent out a reminder to folks to keep an eye on their smalls dogs and cats. I'm pretty sure the bobcat is feeding well off the huge number of rabbits in the area, but so are the fox pair.
I am not going to any shopping center or retail store today, Black Friday. I've already read headlines about shootings and stampedes with injuries - so, as usual, I'm staying away from all that madness.
The hens were ready to come out, but their water bowl was almost dry, so I had to rinse and refill it. I scattered some scratch and beans for them to snack on today. Carter, the tom cat, definitely wanted to come outside and wander, but Xuxa, the girl, decided to stay inside where it was much warmer. I'll get everyone back inside again at dusk.
The bobcat is still around in my usual house-sitting neighborhood. My brother-in-law was sitting at the dining room table, doing paper work, when he saw a movement on the patio. He looked out, and the bobcat was investigating the sliding glass door and the picnic table, then it nosed around the woodpile, where the mink lives. Jim got up to get his camera, and the bobcat went across the yard to one of the big cottonwood trees, and Jim said that it bounded up into the foliage in the blink of an eye - two leaps and it had disappeared. Since the bobcat has been in the neighborhood for 2 weeks now, I sent out a reminder to folks to keep an eye on their smalls dogs and cats. I'm pretty sure the bobcat is feeding well off the huge number of rabbits in the area, but so are the fox pair.
I am not going to any shopping center or retail store today, Black Friday. I've already read headlines about shootings and stampedes with injuries - so, as usual, I'm staying away from all that madness.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Wild Critters Returning to the Neighborhood
Boulder is continuing to have extremely warm temperatures so fat this November. Our normal high temperature is 53 degrees (F), but we've had temperatures usually in the 60s and low 70s. Today, we're forecast to have a high of 76 - and there isn't a cloud in the sky... A small storm is due to arrive Thursday and give us a high of 40 degrees, and, with a low in the teens that night, we have rain and a small chance of snow, as well. I'm not crazy about "grey days" but we really need moisture, so I won't complain a bit.
In my house- and pet-sitting neighborhood, in north Boulder, the coyotes have finally moved on, and a few red fox have come back into the territory. We've had an explosion of the rabbit population, and the fox are beginning to deal with the surplus. And, two weeks ago, I saw something from a distance at dawn, and convinced myself I had imagined it. My niece confirmed my sighting last week, so I can now report that there is a mink living in the neighborhood, also.
Since I first saw the mink running across the road in half-light, I thought I just hadn't seen it plainly. I thought - No, it wasn't a darker, elongated squirrel, without a bushy tail; you imagined that... - but then I saw it's head and shoulders pop out of a woodpile last week. Several hours later, my niece saw the mink climb on top of the woodpile, stand on all four feet, then rise up on it's hind feet, and survey the area. She was sitting 15 feet away from the woodpile, and had an excellent view and time to study it.
Last night, one of the neighbors was taking a walk around the area, when he saw a bobcat sitting in the street in front of my sister and brother-in-law's house. Mark said it was gazing up at the nearly full moon, and when it heard his approach, it looked at him, stood up, stretched, and calmly stalked away. That report made my sister and Jim very happy...
In my house- and pet-sitting neighborhood, in north Boulder, the coyotes have finally moved on, and a few red fox have come back into the territory. We've had an explosion of the rabbit population, and the fox are beginning to deal with the surplus. And, two weeks ago, I saw something from a distance at dawn, and convinced myself I had imagined it. My niece confirmed my sighting last week, so I can now report that there is a mink living in the neighborhood, also.
Since I first saw the mink running across the road in half-light, I thought I just hadn't seen it plainly. I thought - No, it wasn't a darker, elongated squirrel, without a bushy tail; you imagined that... - but then I saw it's head and shoulders pop out of a woodpile last week. Several hours later, my niece saw the mink climb on top of the woodpile, stand on all four feet, then rise up on it's hind feet, and survey the area. She was sitting 15 feet away from the woodpile, and had an excellent view and time to study it.
Last night, one of the neighbors was taking a walk around the area, when he saw a bobcat sitting in the street in front of my sister and brother-in-law's house. Mark said it was gazing up at the nearly full moon, and when it heard his approach, it looked at him, stood up, stretched, and calmly stalked away. That report made my sister and Jim very happy...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Miscellany
We had an inch of snow fall yesterday between 2:30 in the afternoon and 10 last night... Most of the previous snow had melted away, but we've been having freezing fog and hoar frost each morning lately, which has made walking (and driving) treacherous.
A bobcat decided to visit the city of Boulder on Monday - spent about an hour on University Hill, near Chautauqua, before it slipped back into the mountains.
The Denver National Western Stock Show had a block-buster opening weekend...
With a winning percentage of 71.9 in four years, the Broncos and head coach John Fox parted ways. The team lost the Super Bowl game in 2014, and was blown away in the AFC championship playoffs on Sunday. John Elway and John Fox said the parting was a mutual agreement.
John Elway hinted that Peyton Manning might return for another year or two as quarterback of the Broncos. It turns out that Peyton has been playing with a deep bone bruise and a partially torn and strained right quadriceps muscle since mid-December.
I walk, bike, ride the bus, and drive a vehicle in Boulder. I've never had a complaint against a bus driver, but I have observed a lot of idiocy from other pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers in their own vehicles. I've never had a complaint about folks jogging or running until this week. I was driving south on a five-lane road, in the outside (slow) lane. There were bike lanes on both sides of the road, as well as sidewalks. It was 6:40 in the morning, and still quite dark, as we had full cloud cover, and a freezing fog that made the roads very slick. I saw what my brain first identified as "miner's lights" - lights on straps around bobbing heads - coming at me, headed north, on the sidewalk, in the bike lane, and in the lane I was driving in. I realized that some of these bobbing lights were wearing reflective vests. I then realized that it was a group of 12 to 20 runners, running against traffic, on the sidewalk, in the bike lane, and in my traffic lane. There was one other, lone car approaching rapidly from the rear in the fast lane. I flashed my lights at the runners - and most of them merged over onto the sidewalk and/or into the bike lane. However, three individuals, who were not wearing lights or reflective gear of any kind, continued running straight at me. I had to come to a complete stop for the unlighted idiots in the driving lane - so I wouldn't be charged with a "hit and run" accident. One of the men rapped his knuckles down the side of the car I was driving, as he ran by. By that time, the other vehicle had passed on the inside lane, and I pulled over and finished my drive home. Then I called the police department and left a complaint.
We're supposed to be "warm" for the next several days, so I'm hoping all the snow in the yards and on the roads will melt away....
A bobcat decided to visit the city of Boulder on Monday - spent about an hour on University Hill, near Chautauqua, before it slipped back into the mountains.
The Denver National Western Stock Show had a block-buster opening weekend...
With a winning percentage of 71.9 in four years, the Broncos and head coach John Fox parted ways. The team lost the Super Bowl game in 2014, and was blown away in the AFC championship playoffs on Sunday. John Elway and John Fox said the parting was a mutual agreement.
John Elway hinted that Peyton Manning might return for another year or two as quarterback of the Broncos. It turns out that Peyton has been playing with a deep bone bruise and a partially torn and strained right quadriceps muscle since mid-December.
I walk, bike, ride the bus, and drive a vehicle in Boulder. I've never had a complaint against a bus driver, but I have observed a lot of idiocy from other pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers in their own vehicles. I've never had a complaint about folks jogging or running until this week. I was driving south on a five-lane road, in the outside (slow) lane. There were bike lanes on both sides of the road, as well as sidewalks. It was 6:40 in the morning, and still quite dark, as we had full cloud cover, and a freezing fog that made the roads very slick. I saw what my brain first identified as "miner's lights" - lights on straps around bobbing heads - coming at me, headed north, on the sidewalk, in the bike lane, and in the lane I was driving in. I realized that some of these bobbing lights were wearing reflective vests. I then realized that it was a group of 12 to 20 runners, running against traffic, on the sidewalk, in the bike lane, and in my traffic lane. There was one other, lone car approaching rapidly from the rear in the fast lane. I flashed my lights at the runners - and most of them merged over onto the sidewalk and/or into the bike lane. However, three individuals, who were not wearing lights or reflective gear of any kind, continued running straight at me. I had to come to a complete stop for the unlighted idiots in the driving lane - so I wouldn't be charged with a "hit and run" accident. One of the men rapped his knuckles down the side of the car I was driving, as he ran by. By that time, the other vehicle had passed on the inside lane, and I pulled over and finished my drive home. Then I called the police department and left a complaint.
We're supposed to be "warm" for the next several days, so I'm hoping all the snow in the yards and on the roads will melt away....
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Bobcat, Fall Foliage & Moose Photos
Back yard bobcat in Estes Park
Moose near Kenosha Pass
Durango colors and sky
Kenosha Pass moose
Caribou
Guanella Pass Road
Odds And Ends
I woke up with a terrible migraine this morning; ended up getting a compazine injection and am almost normal (for me) again. I enjoyed my television shows for the past two evenings. I was really delighted with the casting of Carol Kane as the mother of the Penguin in Gotham - that was a neat surprise! And I loved The Blacklist, as usual. It did seem a bit weird that NCIS: New Orleans broadcast a show about an outbreak of bubonic plague on the same day the Center for Disease Control verified a case of ebola in Dallas, Texas - but, I was not surprised.
With flights available to all people everywhere in the world, I would have been surprised had there not been at least two or three cases that were spread by today's methods of travel. From what I have read, the unfortunate man had traveled in Liberia before returning to the US. The two things that I find questionable about his treatment were that (1) he was sent back home for two days after first presenting his symptoms at the hospital, and (2) the EMTs and ambulance that carried him to the hospital for this - treatment, or admission, or complaint - were sent back out for routine work for the next two days, before being quarantined. The man told them he had been in Liberia, in West Africa - why were blood tests for ebola not run immediately, before he was sent back into the public for 48 hours before his symptoms worsened? After hearing and reading about the failures of the Secret Service in their quest to protect our President and the First Family, I guess I'm really not surprised that a hospital in Dallas, Texas would fail to pass a test, either. *** Correction: I just heard that the infected patient is a native of Liberia, who is visiting his family in Texas. Emergency Room workers were told on Friday, when he was seen in the Er that his had just arrived from Liberia a few days before... Oversight? ***
Let's see, what else is going on? The black bear is still hanging around the Githens Acres neighborhood; it's pretty much still sleeping in the cottonwood trees during the days and eating apples, crab apples, pears and various ripe berries in the yards. The adult mountain lion is seen frequently at dawn or dusk along the creek at the Riverside Lane cul-de-sac. Moose usually stay pretty high up in the foothills and mountains around here, but a family group of five has been seen north of Longmont for the past week. A lady in Estes Park went into her back yard the other day and came face-to-face with a young bobcat. The youngster didn't want to leave the yard, but finally fled when the lady came out banging a couple of cast iron frying pans together.
I've been getting a kick out of the squirrels here... As it's getting cooler, they are getting more insistent that I produce food for them. I have two deer antlers that I found in the woods, on Grandma Anne's property, sitting in a chair (each) for the squirrels to chew on to shorten and sharpen their teeth. It's amazing how they whittle away those antlers! And now, Cashew, and a few of the older squirrels, climb up onto the window screens and chatter at me - telling me they're out of nuts or corn or grain... And the one thing that really makes me happy about all of this, is that my cats ignore the squirrels - sometimes the squirrels will initiate a game of chase with Nedi, which he enjoys. The only things the kits have caught and killed recently are bugs - and I can easily live with that.
With flights available to all people everywhere in the world, I would have been surprised had there not been at least two or three cases that were spread by today's methods of travel. From what I have read, the unfortunate man had traveled in Liberia before returning to the US. The two things that I find questionable about his treatment were that (1) he was sent back home for two days after first presenting his symptoms at the hospital, and (2) the EMTs and ambulance that carried him to the hospital for this - treatment, or admission, or complaint - were sent back out for routine work for the next two days, before being quarantined. The man told them he had been in Liberia, in West Africa - why were blood tests for ebola not run immediately, before he was sent back into the public for 48 hours before his symptoms worsened? After hearing and reading about the failures of the Secret Service in their quest to protect our President and the First Family, I guess I'm really not surprised that a hospital in Dallas, Texas would fail to pass a test, either. *** Correction: I just heard that the infected patient is a native of Liberia, who is visiting his family in Texas. Emergency Room workers were told on Friday, when he was seen in the Er that his had just arrived from Liberia a few days before... Oversight? ***
Let's see, what else is going on? The black bear is still hanging around the Githens Acres neighborhood; it's pretty much still sleeping in the cottonwood trees during the days and eating apples, crab apples, pears and various ripe berries in the yards. The adult mountain lion is seen frequently at dawn or dusk along the creek at the Riverside Lane cul-de-sac. Moose usually stay pretty high up in the foothills and mountains around here, but a family group of five has been seen north of Longmont for the past week. A lady in Estes Park went into her back yard the other day and came face-to-face with a young bobcat. The youngster didn't want to leave the yard, but finally fled when the lady came out banging a couple of cast iron frying pans together.
I've been getting a kick out of the squirrels here... As it's getting cooler, they are getting more insistent that I produce food for them. I have two deer antlers that I found in the woods, on Grandma Anne's property, sitting in a chair (each) for the squirrels to chew on to shorten and sharpen their teeth. It's amazing how they whittle away those antlers! And now, Cashew, and a few of the older squirrels, climb up onto the window screens and chatter at me - telling me they're out of nuts or corn or grain... And the one thing that really makes me happy about all of this, is that my cats ignore the squirrels - sometimes the squirrels will initiate a game of chase with Nedi, which he enjoys. The only things the kits have caught and killed recently are bugs - and I can easily live with that.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Critters and Views
Santa Elena Canyon, Rio Grande River, Texas
Spirit Mound State Park, South Dakota
Hansel House, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
California bobcat with prey
Loon and hatchling
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