Wildlife

[tirolski]

Thank you. The Snowys and Shorties are seasonal visitors from up north that visit the Washington County Grasslands in the winter. The Great Horned, Barred and Screech are all around locally year round. Saw Whet is the next local species I am after, Long Heared were in the Grasslands a couple of years ago but not since.

If ya like owls this story will warm ya up.

Missoula man says owl led him through blizzard to campsite

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — Mike Stevenson dropped to his knees in the dark. He searched beneath the deepening, drifting snow for the trough of snowshoe tracks marking his passage from

www.bozemandailychronicle.com

 

[freeheeln]

Peregrine Falcon feeding on a Starling in Washington County

 

[G.ski]

Very impressed with your avian pics.

 

[freeheeln]

Merlin perched on a branch peering for prey. A falcon about the size of a Robin.

 

[freeheeln]

Female American Kestral launches

 

[tirolski]

This article is interesting.

Backyard Reflections/The Last of the Wildlife – Ruffed Grouse?

Wildlife used to be abundant here in the hollow. Unfortunately in recent years, fewer and fewer animals move through this property, or live here year-round. I suspect that because this parcel of land is sandwiched between others that have been decimated by logging or clearing, the animals can’t...

www.sunjournal.com

 

[Big Deal]

This a Blue Grouse in the lift line at Big Sky

 

[tirolski]

This a Blue Grouse in the lift line at Big Sky

Saw a big ringneck pheasant picking at stuff on the side of the road today on the way to go skiing @ Lab.

 

[freeheeln]

I got a shot of this Rough-legged Hawk, young male dark morph, with a satellite transmitter attached. Found out it was deployed a couple of weeks ago in Addison County Vermont by The Rough-legged Hawk Project [on FB]. It has made its way to the Washington County Grasslands now and will migrate north to the Arctic in the spring with them monitoring its progress.

 

[Big Deal]

We saw a wolf today in the side country off of Big Sky. This is the low saddle of Wyoming Bowl . Lots of wolf tracks out there with a pack of about 25 mountain goats nearby.