Sunday Pic of the Day

[YellowCreek]

Wild trout!

 

[SilentBirdHunter]

Easter gobblers, 5-April-2026

 

[Hem]

This morning I hiked to this endorheic pond, which is essentially on the side of a mountain, and has walls of earth around it no less than 20 ft high.

There is no outflow, and it’s a good half mile from the nearest intermittent stream and over a mile from the nearest perennial one. As far as wet spots on this mountain go, it’s an aberration.

So how did the muskrats find it? According to an article I found from the New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, muskrats can travel up to 20 miles over dry land looking for a new habitat. I’ve never been hiking in the woods far from water and come across a muskrat,  and I wonder what was in the mind of the Rodent Explorer who decided he’d hike a mile and a half and 600 feet in elevation up this dry and timbered mountain for a new home. He must’ve convinced others to go with him.

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Maybe they can smell water from a good distance.

 

[It’s Bucky]

 

[mtmiller]

 

[SilentBirdHunter]

Mountain and western bluebirds at our MT pasture.

 

[el unit]

Turkeys in Ft Collins, CO yesterday afternoon.

 

[BAKPAKR]

Siamese twins.

 

[Lmartin5]

Somehow I seem to have bought a boat yesterday took her out to fish and explore a bit and it was wife and kid approved caught a few fish and found a few goose nests! Cemetery island, Canyon Ferry
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That's a great day!

 

[Straight Arrow]

April garden sunrise.

 

[PoleX]

Spring fishing

 

[trb]

Redstem springbeauty

 

[BOHNTR]

Spring green up.

 

[gouch]

Granddaughter smokes the field in the 100 m.




pulls away in the 100 m. hurdles



and cruises in the 4X100 relay

 

[44hunter45]

Granddaughter smokes the field in the 100 m.


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pulls away in the 100 m. hurdles

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and cruises in the 4X100 relay

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Track and field is now our Saturday Grandparent jam. I don't even plan any chores. forget it.

MissT ties her PR in her second meet. Medaled in triple jump.

 

[Caseknife]

Granddaughter smokes the field in the 100 m.


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pulls away in the 100 m. hurdles

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and cruises in the 4X100 relay

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Going to be watching her in the Prefontaine Classic in a few years?

 

[Oak]

Sagebrush Sparrow

 

[brymoore]

. Backyard this morning.

 

[mtmuley]

View attachment 405961. Backyard this morning.

I get them too. Pests. mtmuley

 

[brymoore]

I get them too. Pests. mtmuley

Pests I like to watch.