More scenery pics.

Yukon Mike

Yukon Mike

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Its -31C here this morning, no wind though, so not much reason to get the dogs out for an early walk. Here's some more recent pictures.

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We tried to set this one up to look like Mac was skydiving. Ya... no.

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Wolf tracks across a lake. We see that quite often but those were fresh enough that Meg and I found and caught up to that guy on the ice. He ran along beside us for the longest time - not in panic mode like coyotes do, just loping along like he was our dog. Very cool experience. No gun, and Meg is an animal lover so I wouldn't have shot him with her there. If I see him again though....

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Not much lake traffic that day, or any day really.


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CSI Yukon. What do you think happened? Experts determined the feathers to be of the Spruce Hen variety. No body was located.

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That's what I thought RL, but there's just not many raptors around here in the winter. Another theory is that a raven picked up a piece of a grouse, stopped to eat it, spooked off, walked back and either finished it there or took off again.

There's just no struggle tracks, and no blood. If the grouse was killed it was nailed in the air because there's no grouse footprints on the snow.

Any other ideas?
 
I went off the initial chest/body and wing prints in the snow by the feathers. I can see faint primary feather marks laterally off that body plant area? Assumed an owl or goshawk.

Actually, judging from the tracks, they look more like the hop-hop-hop of a raven that landed and walked to the bird carcase over those of a raptor on the ground, which would be staggered. My guess is that the bird landed near the carcass, hopped over to investigate and then secured the carcass and left with it. You can see where it fought to get airborne, as depicted by the repeatedly fainter wing impressions as it started to clear the ground with its meal.
 
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So Jealous....

Beautiful captures...

What lake is that?

Not to hijack, but here is another set of Wolf tracks


 
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Great pics Mike. The mac skydiving pic is great. If you blur your eyes you it looks kinda real!

I spoke to Andy the other day and he said it was -59 windchill. THATS COLD!

We were up to 63F today and it's gonna stay in the 50's during the day for the next 4 days. The perch run should get going strong now.

Keep the pics coming Mike, you live in one heck of a beautiful place.

-D
 
Great pictures Mike! I especially like the panoramic view of the lake with the shadow of the mountain. I am heading out to the mountains tomorrow. Supposed to be a balmy +10 in the city tomorrow. You have to love a Chinook.
 
Nice pictures Mike. The one of Mac on the ice sure does look like he's skydiving.

Phil I really liked the wolf tracks picture you posted.

Dani
 
Mike~

That Crossbill must have known you'd have the camera - every feather is arranged textbook perfect!

BTW: Although I had already read the others' comments, I was immediately struck in the Yukon CSI pic that the feather imprints on the upper left looked just like the outline of a Raven - as if it had done a face-plant in the snow.

All the best,

SJS
 
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