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crazytom

climber

Maine

Dec 23, 2010 - 02:56pm PT

Adding a couple of pics amongst some awesome photography!

TMO

Trad climber

Puyallup, WA

Dec 23, 2010 - 03:22pm PT

Foxy Loxy at Mount Rainier National Park. This little feller was darn near tame. Hungry I suspect. He hung with me for a good 5 minutes.

Tobia

Social climber

Dec 23, 2010 - 03:34pm PT

Taken in my "yard", one of twin brothers, this fall.

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Dec 23, 2010 - 06:00pm PT

Great photos! so many "best of show."

A mystery owl that exploded out of some foliage 3' in front of me last summer. Made a heleva squawking and used effective threat gestures to keep me away. Pine woodland at about 7,000 ft. in S. Idaho.

Baby Great Gray, that had fallen out of the nest? I think it was 10-12" tall.

Bob D'A

Trad climber

Taos, NM

Dec 23, 2010 - 06:12pm PT

Snow geese and sandhill cranes...Bosque del Apache, NM

Bob D'A

Trad climber

Taos, NM

Dec 23, 2010 - 06:28pm PT

Cranes taking off.

Snow geese on the morning flyout.

Sunrise, Bosque del Apache, NM

cyndiebransford

climber

31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska

Dec 24, 2010 - 02:33am PT

crazytom

climber

Maine

Dec 24, 2010 - 07:16pm PT

dipper

climber

Dec 24, 2010 - 07:25pm PT

Endangered coho salmon are returning.

So far San Geronimo Valley has more fish than the past two years combined (not hard to do when one considers the last 2 years were nearly zero)

This year looks to be below average, but is more than zero.

Brokedownclimber

Trad climber

Douglas, WY

Dec 24, 2010 - 11:43pm PT

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Dec 25, 2010 - 12:09am PT

Great Photos from everyone.

Kudos to Crazy Tom for the long antenna beetle (gally-napper) you shot at City of Rocks and Broke-down for one of his pet bucks.

On our 2007 Sawtooth Mtn. trip, Kim bragged about her lightweight rain-fly and closeness to nature. The local marmot urinated all over her sleeping bag: to reinforce how close she was to nature.

Mtnmun

Trad climber

Top of the Mountain Mun

Dec 25, 2010 - 12:29am PT

Bob DA That Crane shot is awesome. Good work everyone!

crazytom

climber

Maine

Dec 25, 2010 - 07:59am PT

Thanks Fritz. I couldn't remember the name of that bug.

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Dec 25, 2010 - 11:33am PT

Tom: Gally-Napper is a "southernism" I learned from the ex. It was a catch-all for any un-identified large insect. I gradually pared the definition down to large un-identified coleoptera (beetles).

With some digging on Google, I find this definition at WikiAnswers: A galley napper also know as a galley nipper is a Crane Fly.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly.

I confess: your beetle is some type of "Longhorn" beetle. There are thousands of species of "Longhorn" beetle in North America. ihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhorn_beetle

scuffy b

climber

Three feet higher

Dec 27, 2010 - 07:48pm PT

Fritz, your mystery owl looks like a Poor-will to me.
Not often seen in daylight.

groundup

Trad climber

hard sayin' not knowin'

Dec 27, 2010 - 08:11pm PT

below the main wall at Carderock MD.

Tobia

Social climber

Dec 27, 2010 - 10:06pm PT

Another summer shot; typical for white-tails in the South.
Brokedownclimber: that is a big boy on your ranch; it would be considered a 10 point over here.

The mystery owl sure looks like a Poor Will to me. We have two varieties on this side the Chuck-will's-widow and the Whip-poor-will. All belong to the Order Goatsuckers; so named because of the 17th century fear they stole milk from goat's udders at night.

A good place to look up bird info is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology website:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/search