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Category Archives: Wildlife
No Mango, No Problem
This is the same pika that I denied a taste of my mango, as you can see it was quite adept at finding food on its own. It had just sprinted across the talus field with these twigs in its … Continue reading
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Tagged American pika, mammals, Mount Rainier National Park, Palisades Lakes Trail, Washington
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I Tried Not To Take It Personally
“Hey everybody, Boolie is a rat fink who won’t share his mango!” In the interest of full disclosure, while pikas are vocal little things this one isn’t calling out, it’s finishing up some of the plants it was eating. In … Continue reading
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Tagged American pika, mammals, Mount Rainier National Park, Palisades Lakes Trail, Washington
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You … You … You Are Going to Share Your Mango, Aren’t You?
Ever since first seeing pikas in the Tetons, I always choose some of my hikes on my Wyoming trips to go into terrain where I might glimpse these little mammals. So it should be no surprise that I chose many … Continue reading
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Tagged American pika, mammals, Mount Rainier National Park, Palisades Lakes Trail, Washington
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Summerland
A hoary marmot at the end of Mount Rainier’s Summerland Trail eeks out the last bit of warmth from this sunlit rock before the mountains blocked the sun and threw its perch into shadow.
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The Seedy Side
This golden-mantled ground squirrel was another creature at Mount Rainier busy eating as much as possible. It was almost reckless as it sprinted around looking for seeds in the grasses beside the Pinnacle Peak Trail in the Paradise section of … Continue reading
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Tagged golden-mantled ground squirrel, mammals, Mount Rainier National Park, Pinnacle Peak Trail, Washington
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