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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 3/23/2009, 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't know they climbed trees, either. Interesting! |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 4/14/2009, 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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OK, back to what happens while on the clock. I am still training for the bus driving job. Today the trainer finally had time for a long trip, so we went to Hannagan, and then on to Blue Vista. I hadn't seen Blue Vista since the fire ran over the top of it. Didn't hurt much, a few dead trees, but it sure improved the view! We saw very little wildlife, though: two turkeys and a limping cow elk.
The bus driver trainer also works at the mine in Morenci and regaled me with wildlife stories specific to his making that drive from Eagar to Morenci along 191 twice a week for years. If the road is closed he goes around by way of Glenwood and Mule Creek, NM, of course.
Over the past couple of weeks I've been doing the Vernon run. We usually see antelope or elk, or both. Sometimes a coyote or two. |
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Sande J Calamity J
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 725 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 8/13/2009, 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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I remembered enjoying this thread awhile back, so I have something nice to add...saw these guys working this week. They were so cute and didn't seem to mind us at all! I had to use one of my bosses ancient slr's and zoom lens, but still pretty cool! They are Burrowing Owls and are living in a nice undisturbed area. I have not really seen too many of these so I felt pretty lucky!
_________________ And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stone, good in everything..
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Arizonaheat Got Supes Juice?
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1741 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 8/13/2009, 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome sighting, I'm jealous. Yet to get a good owl photo. _________________ Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 8/13/2009, 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder if they are "our" owls. The G&F Dept did a project up here near Eagar, at the G&F White Mtn. Grasslands Area. They and many volunteers built burrowing owl "burrows" and then they released a bunch of owls. At first, they were feeding them, etc. The owls stayed around after they were released, but they do migrate to lower elevations in winter.
Unfortunately, they never came back. Not a single one! I tried to find out what had happened to them, since they were banded and presumably could have been sighted elsewhere. G&F has not been very informative on this subject when I've inquired. |
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Sande J Calamity J
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 725 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 8/13/2009, 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Elizabeth, if they are your owls, they made it all the way to Pinal County...!
Thanks Heat! I ended up with a few decent shots...despite I was at the mercy of another camera, but did my best...this pic is a little grainy, but the image is there...I love his facial expression...
_________________ And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stone, good in everything..
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wanderingsoul
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 2285 Location: Gilbert AZ
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Posted: 8/14/2009, 1:13 am Post subject: |
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Those are neat shots Sande, I don't know much about owls but I didn't realize there was such a thing as burrowing owls. That might make for an easy dinner , a few scampering mice per chance?
Thought owls were always in trees. Very interesting!
And the shot on the ground with them peaking out is too cute !! _________________ Wanderingsoul (Michelle)
Positive Thinking Is the Spark that Makes Dreams Happen~~~Unknown |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 8/14/2009, 5:03 am Post subject: |
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They are so cute. I really wish some of them had enjoyed their White Mountains 2nd home enough to come back! One thing I forgot to mention is that the G&F person I talked to said that he had heard that some of the released owls had been seen elsewhere, but he didn't know where. I suppose I should call again, find out who does know the answers. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 8/14/2009, 5:06 am Post subject: |
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Oh, as for wildlife seen at work: This summer at Hidden Meadow Ranch I regularly saw the resident bull elk, "Steve." He is very grand. Hope he makes it through the hunt season! I still work there on weekends, so maybe will see some more animals. A bear and a mountain lion were seen on the property this summer, but not by me.
My school bus run is all in town, so I'm unlikely to see much there. Wild rednecked loons, maybe... |
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fairweather8588
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 716
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Posted: 8/14/2009, 8:39 am Post subject: |
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Only time I saw wildlife at work was when 3 or 4 javelina's decided to see if our tables outside of the pizza place tasted good so they started to lick them. We had a pretty good laugh and eventually just scared them away _________________ But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious
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tibber
Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 247 Location: Phoenix
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Posted: 8/14/2009, 9:18 am Post subject: |
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I saw some sort of special on the local gov't channel about these burrowing owls. A couple guys were trying to save them from the developers. I don't remember the area though but it was a pretty large plot of land. It was very interesting.
Sande, that is a darn cute picture of the little fella!
Lucky for me at work in N. Scottsdale (99th St & Bell), we have quite a bit of wildlife including a roadrunner, finches & a couple other breeds of birds, hummingbirds, lizards, butterflies and a couple families of quail. It's so funny when I'm on the phone to our home office (formerly Richmond VA now St Louis) and exclaim, "awh, the lizard is doing push-ups" or I email my boss who is still at home that the family of quail (including the babies of course) is out for a morning walk on the thigh-high cement block wall.... _________________ Angela from N Phoenix |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 8/14/2009, 10:24 am Post subject: |
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Do you send them photos? I'd think they would have never heard of our buff lizards who work out every day in the sun! |
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sirena
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 8/15/2009, 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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MikeInFHAZ
Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 1401 Location: location location
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Posted: 8/15/2009, 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Liz, recently i have seen:
Peccary
Bobcat
Desert Spiny
Bald Eagle
Raven
desert whipsnake
common kingsnake
collared lizard
roadrunner
and the typical gambel quail and cottontail. no gila monster or diamondback, yet
i have also worked aroud 2 monsters aged 3 and 1 year, official name of homo sapiens sapiens but that too is debateable.. _________________ http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albwb18/BRIDGE.sized.jpg
bridge hammock, quilts and tarp (all DIY)
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