Snowflea
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Dug, yay! on saving the loon. For future reference, the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences (VINS) in Woodstock, VT, rehabs all kinds of injured birds and abandoned baby birds. Last month, after calling and speaking with an expert there, I brought down 5 baby bluebirds that were abandoned (the parents most likely killed by the cats of neighbors who allow their felines out of doors - grr!!) in one of my bluebird boxes that I had been monitoring. Received word that the birds were released last week.
As for critters seen while hiking... Grizzly and black bears, buffalo, elk, bighorn sheep, mtn goats, wild burros, deer, coyotes, cattle (hah), ibex (Italy), a badger, bobcats, pine marten, foxes, fishers, lots of rattlesnakes, tarantulas, bunnies, many kinds of squirrels, chipmunks, hundreds of marmots, porcupines, skunks, raccoons, armadillos, turtles, and whales... Seen from a couple of different coastal mtn trails in California.
Have heard wolves in Minnesota but never lucky enough to see one. Always wanted to see a mtn lion when I lived out West, but it never happened...
As for critters seen while hiking... Grizzly and black bears, buffalo, elk, bighorn sheep, mtn goats, wild burros, deer, coyotes, cattle (hah), ibex (Italy), a badger, bobcats, pine marten, foxes, fishers, lots of rattlesnakes, tarantulas, bunnies, many kinds of squirrels, chipmunks, hundreds of marmots, porcupines, skunks, raccoons, armadillos, turtles, and whales... Seen from a couple of different coastal mtn trails in California.
Have heard wolves in Minnesota but never lucky enough to see one. Always wanted to see a mtn lion when I lived out West, but it never happened...
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