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Grex Nature Item 56: Animals seen on recent Southwestern trip.
Entered by mcpoz on Tue Nov 21 02:18:55 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.

9 responses total.

#1 of 9 by md on Tue Nov 21 13:21:42 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.

#2 of 9 by mcpoz on Tue Nov 21 13:32:16 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.

#3 of 9 by rcurl on Tue Nov 21 14:49:08 1995:

That Jay was probably the Pinyon Jay - comon around sagebrush and nests
in pinyon pines and junipers.

#4 of 9 by remmers on Tue Nov 21 17:06:37 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?

#5 of 9 by remmers on Tue Nov 21 17:07:06 1995:

Oops, make that Mt. Ranier. We weren't *THAT* far north!

#6 of 9 by rcurl on Wed Nov 22 03:59:54 1995:

The Gray Jay is crestless (and common in the Northwest - and also
in northern Michigan in winter).

#7 of 9 by denise on Sun Aug 18 21:17:37 1996:

Sounds interesting, Marc... How many of these animals did you get to
'shoot' with the camera?

#8 of 9 by mcpoz on Mon Aug 19 01:29:44 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.

#9 of 9 by kingjon on Sun Oct 13 21:00:54 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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