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Bowregard Member
Joined: 05 Feb 2019 Posts: 562 | TRs | Pics Location: Sammamish |
Deer in my back yard. This may sound common place for many but when I woke up one morning to the site of two deer mating less than 20 feet away in my fully fenced back yard in suburbia I was a bit shocked. To get into my yard they had to walk a long narrow rockery above my driveway and jump a low picket fence.
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kvpair Member
Joined: 18 Apr 2018 Posts: 119 | TRs | Pics Location: Sammamish |
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Fri Aug 16, 2019 8:37 am
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I've seen otters in Lake Sammamish in the early AM before. They like to park on the boat docks. Before I saw them, I'd no idea that there were any in Lake Sammamish.
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hikerbiker Member
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 155 | TRs | Pics Location: Rock Creek |
Hoary Marmot spotted on a rock outcrop on my property here recently. Surprising to see one at 2200' elevation east side of the Cascades so far from the alpine we normally see them in. A lot better than the scorpion I found in the garage yesterday!
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
hikerbiker wrote: | Hoary Marmot spotted on a rock outcrop on my property here recently. Surprising to see one at 2200' elevation east side of the Cascades so far from the alpine we normally see them in. |
Interesting. Yellow bellied marmots show up in some unexpected and fairly low elevation places. I've seen them along the river walk in downtown Spokane, Palouse Falls SP and Cowiche Canyon near Yakima. I haven't seen hoary marmots in places like that though.
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Sculpin Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 1383 | TRs | Pics
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Sculpin
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Sun Sep 08, 2019 8:19 am
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hikerbiker wrote: | Hoary Marmot spotted on a rock outcrop on my property here recently. Surprising to see one at 2200' elevation east side of the Cascades so far from the alpine we normally see them in. |
They are a nuisance on the golf course at Sun Lakes State Park. They are usually referred to as "Columbia Ground Squirrels" or groundhogs when they are found at low elevation.
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Sculpin wrote: | They are a nuisance on the golf course at Sun Lakes State Park. They are usually referred to as "Columbia Ground Squirrels" or groundhogs when they are found at low elevation. |
Huh. I thought groundhog was a distinctive type of marmot, same thing as a woodchuck. I also thought they were exclusively in the Eastern U.S. (I saw some in Ohio), but wikipedia has a map of their habitat showing a swath thru B.C. and a tiny sliver in NE Washington, northern Idaho and NW Montana.
Columbia ground squirrels are something entirely different. Tiny compared to a marmot. No reason to confuse them. If anyone is referring to a marmot as a Columbia ground squirrel, that's kinda weird. Or maybe it really is a Columbia ground squirrel, in which case it's not a marmot.
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Brucester Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2013 Posts: 1102 | TRs | Pics Location: Greenwood |
And mammals???
An otter sunning on a swim platform on Lake Washington the otter day....
An OTTER, totally unexpected!
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mike Member
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 6397 | TRs | Pics Location: SJIsl |
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Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:02 pm
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olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Columbia ground squirrels are something entirely different. Tiny compared to a marmot. No reason to confuse them. If anyone is referring to a marmot as a Columbia ground squirrel, that's kinda weird. Or maybe it really is a Columbia ground squirrel, in which case it's not a marmot. |
So what is this? Pateros. Columbia in the background. Smaller than the usual alpine marmots.
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pcg Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2012 Posts: 334 | TRs | Pics
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Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:55 pm
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mike wrote: | So what is this? |
That's a yellow-bellied marmot.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
pcg wrote: | That's a yellow-bellied marmot. |
I concur
edited--definitely typically smaller than hoary marmots from what I've seen. Hoary are what you would most likely see in the sub alpine/alpine in the Cascades.
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Chief Joseph Member
Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 7701 | TRs | Pics Location: Verlot-Priest Lake |
pcg wrote: | mike wrote: | So what is this? |
That's a yellow-bellied marmot. |
He is a coward?
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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DigitalJanitor Dirt hippie
Joined: 20 May 2012 Posts: 792 | TRs | Pics
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mike wrote: | So what is this? Pateros. Columbia in the background. Smaller than the usual alpine marmots. |
Def rock chuck, aka 'yellow marmot'.
They looove pancaking out on flat rocks in the sun getting warm, especially in the spring. Unfortunately this can also include laying out on warm asphalt with predictable results.
The babies are adorable. Unless they're digging under your foundation or some such, lol.
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RichP Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 5633 | TRs | Pics Location: here |
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Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:46 am
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DigitalJanitor wrote: | The babies are adorable. |
They are! Seen at Palouse Falls.
There are many marmots and their young living around the parking area. They seem unfazed by the people coming and going. Mom. Apparently this is a yellow bellied marmot which is different from the hoary marmot in subalpine areas. Looks pretty yellow to me.
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pcg Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2012 Posts: 334 | TRs | Pics
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Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:21 pm
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Hoary marmot for comparison.
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Sculpin Member
Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 1383 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:03 am
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olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Columbia ground squirrels are something entirely different. |
Oops looks like I blew that one.
But no real difference between eastern "groundhogs" and our Columbia basin marmots, right?
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
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