During below zero days I watched bunnies feeding at night on videos. They ate standing up, and you could see the stress as their ears were pulled back or very big to listen to the great horned owls. When I was out in the dark setting the camera, they were loud and creepy close-by.
On Tuesday you saw an elk on the hillside as we were leaving, and we knew the herd wouldn't be grazing in the 40 mph wind, so we stopped for photos. I made the park ranger laugh and up at Deer Junction I kept talking to the magpie. He liked the attention and stayed until we left.
Thanks for the challenge! #8 is represented by Notchtop, architecture-ish. 9 & 10 are those mountains, also on the left. 11 & 12 are water & waterfalls on the right. #4 is wildlife in the middle. Elk and parrot not too similar, but I see it. :giggle4:
On Monday we made a quick trip into RMNP right at sunrise and before breakfast. We saw 11 elk and there was snow over the ice on the river. Our timing put Notchtop Mountain in warm sun with no snow, and contrasted with other peaks. The river was more open by our cabin.
For the third of three months in a row, we were back at our cabin, but in the few weeks since our last visit, we were seeing signs of a hostile takeover of the government. As we got to Estes Park, we saw a forest fire burning and wind gusts over 50 mph. It was a "controlled" burn.
I didn't try too hard to make sure there was enough room in my book, I just assumed there would be. as for so many years before. But it wasn't looking good, for fitting all of my pages in the book this time. I had to decide which pages to leave out, in order to stay within the limit.
On Saturday I was sorting the 24-hour photo haul and found two big raccoons fighting. Then at the end of my sorting, after often seeing six or more sparrows gathered at the feeder, I came to one where the bird flew in and before he could land the other bird flew up to attack him.
I was skipping over any photos of bunnies that weren't cute at all to me, but suddenly in one night image I was amazed by what a long wide load this one bunny was. And it came to me. We were feeding wide load moms and future bunnies. We needed not worry we fed them too much.
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