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Grex > Nature > #56: Animals seen on recent Southwestern trip. | |
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mcpoz
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Animals seen on recent Southwestern trip.
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Nov 21 02:18 UTC 1995 |
On a recent trip to the Southwest, we saw the following:
- Mountain sheep (In Colorado)
- Coyotes - (various places)
- Tarantula (Arizona)
- Big lizard (Death Valley)
- Little lizards (most places)
- Roadrunners (Arizona)
- Wild Burros (Arizona)
- Armadillo (Texas)
- Pronghorn Antelope (Arizona, Texas, New Mexico)
- Deer - all over
- Something that looked like a small wild pig, (without the snout)
- Possibly an eagle, not sure
- Mountain birds which are not described in my bird book. The most
common looked like a Bluejay without the tassle on its head. Just a
rounded grayish-blue head. Bright blue back when its wings were open.
Also a bird which resembled a flicker, but was "bar-pattern" colored
all over.
We visited Carlsbad Caverns but the bats had already left for their annual
flight to Mexico.
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md
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response 1 of 9:
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Nov 21 13:21 UTC 1995 |
Cool! We have relatives in Texas who talk about armadillos being
as common as squirrels are around here, which I find very hard to
imagine.
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mcpoz
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response 2 of 9:
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Nov 21 13:32 UTC 1995 |
They must be, you see a lot of them dead alongside the road. I don't think
they are very fast, so they get crunched a lot.
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rcurl
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response 3 of 9:
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Nov 21 14:49 UTC 1995 |
That Jay was probably the Pinyon Jay - comon around sagebrush and nests
in pinyon pines and junipers.
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remmers
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response 4 of 9:
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Nov 21 17:06 UTC 1995 |
On a trip to the Pacific Northwest this summer, we saw "gray jays"
in the vicinity of Mt. McKinley. They look like bluejays except that
they're gray. Never heard of them before. Where all are they found?
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remmers
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response 5 of 9:
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Nov 21 17:07 UTC 1995 |
Oops, make that Mt. Ranier. We weren't *THAT* far north!
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rcurl
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response 6 of 9:
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Nov 22 03:59 UTC 1995 |
The Gray Jay is crestless (and common in the Northwest - and also
in northern Michigan in winter).
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denise
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response 7 of 9:
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Aug 18 21:17 UTC 1996 |
Sounds interesting, Marc... How many of these animals did you get to
'shoot' with the camera?
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mcpoz
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response 8 of 9:
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Aug 19 01:29 UTC 1996 |
I did not get a shot of any except the deer and the mountain jay. These shots
turned out pretty poor. Oh, yes, I did shoot the tarantula, also. Good shot,
but hard to see.
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kingjon
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response 9 of 9:
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Oct 13 21:00 UTC 1996 |
Great!! Can you e-mail me a copy of that list? I'd like to have a copy
down on the off-line system on our compouter.
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