Monday, September 08, 2014

Raptors and squirrels

Ferruginous hawk

Fat yellow-bellied marmot
MISSOULA, MT - - We're on the road again having left our friends at Glacier Campground.  Over the weekend we went to a raptor festival hosted by the Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center.  All the raptors (hawks and kestrels) had been injured badly enough that they would not be released back into the wild.  The ferruginous hawk was a big guy with an injured wing who liked to let his tongue hang out...maybe because it was hot.
     On Sunday we did a hike (on an unmaintained trail) up from the Logan Pass Visitor's Center) and were entertained by a number of fairly chubby yellow-bellied marmots.  Silly omnivores don't know they're really large squirrels. 

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