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Bazetech Member
Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 37 | TRs | Pics Location: Sequim Wa |
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Mon Jul 27, 2020 7:40 am
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We saw a Mountain Beaver last friday when were up in the hills near Sequim picking berries lol. Haven't seen one in years. Kind of a cool little dude.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Mark Twain
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Saw a mountain beaver in our front yard once. Pro tip you do not want to see a MB in your yard😡
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3086 | TRs | Pics
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Schroder Member
Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 6696 | TRs | Pics Location: on the beach |
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Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:33 pm
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A few years ago I was driving around a corner on the North end of Whidbey Island and slammed on my brakes just in time to miss hitting a huge bull elk. He still lives there and has been named "Bruiser" by the locals
Also on Whidbey, last summer a bear swam from Camano Island and then hung around before deciding to swim around the San Juan Islands before returning to Mt Vernon.
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Ski ><((((°>
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 12798 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:59 pm
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Mike Collins wrote: | "... long-tailed weasel ..." |
Mr. Collins:
I used to have a weasel skull, but when I hung my skull collection up on the fence in the back yard, the squirrels chewed them all to pieces, destroying the the smaller specimens: weasel, coyote, dog, etc.
Still have a big box full of skulls - mostly elk and deer - stashed in the garage.
Are you a skull collector?
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3086 | TRs | Pics
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A bobcat hung around my backyard in Bellevue yesterday for about 15 minutes. It was waiting for rabbits that are frequent visitors. The bobcat sprayed a rock to mark it’s territory before moving on. My backyard is the southeast edge of Bellevue where it abuts Cougar Mountain park. We never put up a fence so it is my backyard but the bobcat's frontyard.
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Ski ><((((°>
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 12798 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 3:53 pm
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^ for the first time in over 20 years I've lived here, we've got bunnies hopping about out here in the north end....
...the trade-off was hardly any raccoons or opossums this season, about which I have no complaints.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Brushbuffalo Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2015 Posts: 1887 | TRs | Pics Location: there earlier, here now, somewhere later... Bellingham in between |
Ski, where are you located (general location is fine). That will be helpful to us.
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
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Ski ><((((°>
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 12798 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:30 pm
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^ about 6 blocks south of Pt. Defiance Park.
don't even think about trying to grow roses out here. the deer are relentless.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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ScottP Member
Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 397 | TRs | Pics
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Sat Sep 05, 2020 5:20 pm
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The first time I summited Mt Baker in the late 1980's was under a lenticular with high wind and low visibility. My partner and I were walking side by side across the summit plateau when a filed mouse ran across our path in front of us and disappeared in the gloom.
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Brushbuffalo Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2015 Posts: 1887 | TRs | Pics Location: there earlier, here now, somewhere later... Bellingham in between |
Interesting! That is similar to reports of mice in Rainier's crater. As I theorized earlier in this thread I believe the little ones might be stowaways in climbers' packs. Or they were just hopelessly confused and off route.
Who knows?
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Dropped by birds of prey.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Brushbuffalo Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2015 Posts: 1887 | TRs | Pics Location: there earlier, here now, somewhere later... Bellingham in between |
I thought that too. Clumsy hawk or eagle couldn't hold the little squirmer in its talons. You'd think the fall without a parachute would have caused a mousy heart attack.
But possible! An unlikely occurrence of a critter might require an unlikely explanation.
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16874 | TRs | Pics
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Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:50 pm
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Brushbuffalo Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2015 Posts: 1887 | TRs | Pics Location: there earlier, here now, somewhere later... Bellingham in between |
Slugman wrote: | wolverines i |
I would be thrilled beyond measure to see a wild wolverine.
Way better than all the gneiss and other rock and landforms I've seen in all my long life! (blasphemy for a geologist? 🤯)
Not for this one. All creation is wonderful!
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
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