Landscapes (pics)

[Straight Arrow]

Beartooth Mtns backdrop from Cooney Reservoir.



Cooney glimmer.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Flight week again…views from the aerial office. This one is your Duck Stamp dollars at work - grassland and wetland conservation easements in the Missouri Coteau. It’s a little droughty out there.



That’s a mile long flock of snow geese on the ground. Couldn’t quite fit them all in.

 

[BrentD]

So what is your estimate for the number of snows? I don't have enough fingers in toes to count.

 

[Hunting Wife]

So what is your estimate for the number of snows? I don't have enough fingers in toes to count.

Me either. If I had better equipment we could actually do a count.

I think these birds are coming from a nearby WPA where they are roosting. Last Friday, we estimated 250,000 - 300,000 came off of that location to go feed, but we were kind of busy looking at some oil reclamation projects and not really counting. Based on weekend trends in other parts of our area, I would guess this is somewhat less than that. We lost a lot of birds over the weekend. But this year has had one of the biggest goose migrations I’ve ever seen come through here.

 

[Irrelevant]

Me either. If I had better equipment we could actually do a count.

I think these birds are coming from a nearby WPA where they are roosting. Last Friday, we estimated 250,000 - 300,000 came off of that location to go feed, but we were kind of busy looking at some oil reclamation projects and not really counting. Based on weekend trends in other parts of our area, I would guess this is somewhat less than that. We lost a lot of birds over the weekend. But this year has had one of the biggest goose migrations I’ve ever seen come through here.

Honestly AI could count that pretty easily. But that replaces actual people, biologists, and I can't support that

 

[Straight Arrow]

Me either. If I had better equipment we could actually do a count.

I think these birds are coming from a nearby WPA where they are roosting. Last Friday, we estimated 250,000 - 300,000 came off of that location to go feed, but we were kind of busy looking at some oil reclamation projects and not really counting. Based on weekend trends in other parts of our area, I would guess this is somewhat less than that. We lost a lot of birds over the weekend. But this year has had one of the biggest goose migrations I’ve ever seen come through here.

Oddly, the Freezeout Lake WMA near Fairfield is experiencing an unprecedented low count of snows so far.

 

[Irrelevant]

 

[Straight Arrow]

Oddly, the Freezeout Lake WMA near Fairfield is experiencing an unprecedented low count of snows so far.

Just jumped from about 1600 to 14,500 snow geese in one day at Freezeout.

 

[terrytheluddite]

Peak aspen at the end of archery in southern CO


Saw a monster bull in this drainage in S. Utah. It's odd seeing Doug Fir and Ponderosa among the red rock.

Frailesjones plants in the high country of Colombia. These things are apparently related to sunflowers

 

[cookchris]

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What a view!

 

[SilentBirdHunter]

North of the Brooks Range.

 

[andrew11]

 

[andrew11]

 

[SilentBirdHunter]

Flathead River, western Montana