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Had three cool sightings recently, but was not able to get any photos:

Saw:
Two Pileated Woodpeckers - which are huge and the first time I've ever seen them
A fisher
An ermine in a white winter coloring.
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nyker wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:57 pm Had three cool sightings recently, but was not able to get any photos:

Saw:
Two Pileated Woodpeckers - which are huge and the first time I've ever seen them
A fisher
An ermine in a white winter coloring.
The first time I saw a pileated woodpecker, I thought it was a lawn decoration....until it flew away.
Since that sighting, I have seen a pair of them which visited a dead tree in my yard a few days last year. :)
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Abert’s squirrel, isn’t it?
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A frosty bald eagle & a black-footed ferret
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A fox I saw on top of a peak in Jeffco today. I'm pretty sure these rocks are his home!
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In my yard

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wow nice shots.

Anyone ever seen a wolverine fairly close?
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No wolvernine sightings, Nyker. But my trail camera caught this
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and this was a pretty amusing image - he's just a button buck and they are already bowing down to him
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Ha. He has a decent little rack on him
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This is one of the cooler shots I was able to see on my trailcam, looks like he is looking in a mirror
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Game cam shot of Moose visit at cabin.
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