evancj Posted December 24, 2012 #801 Share Posted December 24, 2012 A lone cow moose on the mountainside 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 24, 2012 #802 Share Posted December 24, 2012 (edited) Some deer Edited December 24, 2012 by evancj 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 24, 2012 #803 Share Posted December 24, 2012 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 24, 2012 #804 Share Posted December 24, 2012 This is a hawk I saw the day before yesterday after a hike at the Great Salt Lake. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j b Posted December 25, 2012 #805 Share Posted December 25, 2012 very good pics. thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j b Posted December 26, 2012 #806 Share Posted December 26, 2012 a few more pictures i wanted to share from an atv ride a couple weeks back 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j b Posted December 30, 2012 #807 Share Posted December 30, 2012 i got these pictures friday at work. can someone identify the eagle on the left. is it a golden? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keninsc Posted December 30, 2012 #808 Share Posted December 30, 2012 That's what it appears to be, however I've never seen any that close to a road......and on the ground...........and seemingly indifferent to humans taking their picture. Cool pictures though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j b Posted December 30, 2012 #809 Share Posted December 30, 2012 (edited) haha, yea we had hauled a load of stuff to the landfill in eagle river and the eagles hang out there feasting on trash. hundreds of them literally. i got these without the landfill in the shot. Edited December 30, 2012 by j b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keninsc Posted December 30, 2012 #810 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Well, they will scavenge. First time I've ever seen them at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #811 Share Posted December 30, 2012 (edited) Nice pics j b, I am starting to see more bald eagles around here as they migrate down for the winter, Saw 4 of them the other day. The dark eagle in your photo is a juvenile bald eagle. Wheres the road kill? Never mind you said this is at the dump. Unfortunately our nations symbol is indeed a scavenging trash eater, as much as it is a hunter. Edited December 30, 2012 by evancj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j b Posted December 30, 2012 #812 Share Posted December 30, 2012 thats great. i thought it was a juvenile but the guy that told me said it was a goldent eagle.. hah! cool. no roadkill, its at a landfill and there are hundreds of eagles just hanging around like that. i only got those two pics without the landfill in the shot. ill be back there next week sometime im sure probably and ill try to get a pic of everything so everyone can see how many eagles im talking about. i guess i should have done that already. thanks for the compliments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #813 Share Posted December 30, 2012 thats great. i thought it was a juvenile but the guy that told me said it was a goldent eagle.. hah! cool. no roadkill, its at a landfill and there are hundreds of eagles just hanging around like that. i only got those two pics without the landfill in the shot. ill be back there next week sometime im sure probably and ill try to get a pic of everything so everyone can see how many eagles im talking about. i guess i should have done that already. thanks for the compliments. We have both golden and bald eagles here, and from what I have observed the golden's eagles are not at all sociable like the bald's, and the golden's are much more wild/elusive, it is dam near impossible to get near them. I doubt the two species would put up with one another in such close proximity. Speaking of golden eagles I saw 2 of them yesterday, both catching jackrabbits on the same mountain side. I took some pics but they where so far away that you cant see much detail. I'll post them in a bit. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #814 Share Posted December 30, 2012 (edited) Here is one of the clearer golden eagle photos I took yesterday. I saw 2 of them hunting jackrabbits on the same mountain. This is one of the times this guy missed his target. Note the golden color on the head and body. As I said earlier this is not a very good photo this one was probably half a mile away. I do have another golden eagle in flight photo that is clearer some where in this thread. Edited December 30, 2012 by evancj 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakari Posted December 30, 2012 Author #815 Share Posted December 30, 2012 JB!!! Thank you for posting. I almost went up there also, for a pipeline job, wife would not go for it.... Welcome back, and enjoy it up there. And be careful, the moose will kick your ass! Evancj, as usual, nice pics, thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j b Posted December 30, 2012 #816 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Thanks Sakari. I really appreciate it. I am being very careful. I am keeping my eyes open. Everytime I go outside the house I have to do a quick lookaround to make sure its safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #817 Share Posted December 30, 2012 So I took a hike out at Antelope island yesterday, here are some of the things I saw. A small group of bison I woke up just after sunrise. Bison are not native to this island, but they were native to the surrounding Salt Lake valley. A wise rancher who owned the island (in the late 1800's) planted them here because he thought they where going to go extinct. This heard has since been used to reintroduce bison into their former ranges around the west and mid west. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #818 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Cow and calf. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #819 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Jack Rabbit crossing the road. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #820 Share Posted December 30, 2012 A running antelope,the namesake of the island. These are natives to the island, as are the other animals that I will post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #821 Share Posted December 30, 2012 A young mule deer buck, note the non typical tine above it's eye. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #822 Share Posted December 30, 2012 There are 5 plus deer in this photo. Can you find them? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #823 Share Posted December 30, 2012 A sleeping porcupine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #824 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Can you fine the porcupine? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evancj Posted December 30, 2012 #825 Share Posted December 30, 2012 A couple of ravens. I love these guys, very intelligent birds, as are all the corvids. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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