Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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canadensis), Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica), Spicebush, Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris), Chickweed (Stellaria media), periwinkle, redbud, red maple. Trilliums coming on, but not yet in bloom. The Claytonia display down at the bottom of the trail, near the Interstate, was the best I think I have ever seen. March 26. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Hour's hike with Ray Anderson on the Appalachian Trail. Nice hemlock woods lower down, oaks higher up, but nothing out. Speaking at Wilson College. Apr. 23. Sunday. Rocky Mtn National Park, with Jennings and Dale Bunch, and Jane. Drove up and went to church. Some blue skies at first but then snow showers most of the day. A few elk before church around town. Then into Moraine Park and ate overlooking the park with fifty elk out in the meadow. Coyote came close by car while we were eating. Drove up Bear Lake road, with increasing snow. Another coyote in the road, seen briefly. Jennings and I walked into the lake, in falling snow. Perhaps a dozen deer. Returned, drove up Deer Ridge. Not far from the ridge top, half a dozen deer, and one coyote. Watched one deer, a doe, several times run after the coyote chasing it off. Three coyotes today. Over Deer Ridge and down into Horseshoe Park, nothing there. Back toward town, about a dozen bighorns, all ewes, and splendid scene with them on rocks hillside in falling snow. In Big Thompson Canyon, at the diversion a mile or so west of the siphon, three bighorns, two half curl rams. Nice in the scope. May 5, Friday. Rocky Mtn National Park with Markku Okansen, Turku, Finland. The usual. Went to eat our lunch on rock at Many Parks Curve, only to discover that I had put in the wrong thermos case and we had none. Lunched at a pizza place in town. Snipe winnowing along creek in Moraine Park, quite noisy. It was hard to get out of earshot of the winnowing. very rainy May. Rain and overcast virtually every day. May 25, Thursday. Rocky Mountain National Park with Hui Yu, her mother, and Jane. Quite overcast. Elk all over the place, must have seen a thousand. It was hard to get out of sight of a couple elk, often of a couple dozen, and hundreds seen in Moraine Park and elsewhere, though few in Horseshoe Park. Briefly snowshoed with Hui at Bear Lake. A dozen nice bighorn rams back toward town, leaving Horseshoe Park. Snowpack is twice normal, in some places nearly three times normal. May 26, Friday. Back to Estes Park for a CSU Extension Leadership Education conference at the Holiday Inn. Took Hui back and drove up into the park briefly before the conference and about an hour after it. Finally clear, in the morning, and, at midday the peaks were still clear, though skies overcast. Same elk. May 27, Saturday. Owl seminar, with Kevin Cook. No owls. We tried the habitat on the other side of the road from the Cub Lake trailhead; this goes up to an area with lots of dead and dying aspen with cavities and holes, ponderosa pine nearby. Also tried the area right at lower end of Beaver Meadows, parking on the Bear Lake road. Kevin says this is a good area. Snipe winnowing, very conspicuous sound: huhuhuhuhuhuhu. This is made by their outer tail feathers when they are in the air. Look for them in the air; they are hard to see. May be quite high. Tell by the long heavy, though narrow bill, long, dark, pointed wings, and the rapid wing beat. This winnowing is on the bird records, East and West, one winnow only on each set, but it is there.
"Winnow" - the root is wind, vent, to fan. Wheat is winnowed from chaff, fanned in the wind. Escape flight when flushed is zigzag. Striped chorus frog, Pseudacris triseriata (pseu dack riss). This is the one calling here. They need ponds of water for about six weeks, then can live the rest of the year in wet grass. Kevin says this is one of the best years ever at Crow Valley. The wet weather causes a lot of eastern warblers to wander west. Africa 1995 starts below
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Page 3: 1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
Page 7 and 8: Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
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Page 15 and 16: 13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
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43 Lions roaring as we got up in th
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45 little egret giant kingfisher pi
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47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
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stand your ground. Be bold and nois
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51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
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53 we found a rhino horn (pix), whi
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55 giant kingfisher darter (anhinga
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57 distance away to the four winds.
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59 We were visited that evening by
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61 the township with an enrollment
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63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
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65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
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67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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69 momentary. Went in to the Shelte
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71 on the limousine down. December
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73 birds than we thought we might r
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lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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water supplies are put in a couple
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track in the snow. We left about 11
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4 coyotes in snow. 1 immature bald
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Two coyotes came down the road in f
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Spain, surprisingly, as there are i
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Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
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July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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We drove through the rainforest and
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QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
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Eucalyptus trees here are often dea
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and barely survived. Antechinus stu
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floods and drought, much compacted.
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it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
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Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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Then to Murdoch University, lecture
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This cave is the pouch of the femal
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Huge streams pour off the rock in a
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ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Trail Log 1997 February 22, 1997, S
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much better in the lower, protected
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To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
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Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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crows are unusual inside Yellowston
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as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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I went up on a higher hill to try t
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Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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