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Unread 03-05-2019, 04:49 PM   #1
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Had my browsing cow back at sunrise today. The darker shot is what it really looks like but it's a bit dark to see the moose.
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Beautiful!
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Yes beautiful what a nice group of pictures. Thank you for sharing.
I needed that today.

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She looks a bit hefty in the mid-section - probably with calf or two.





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I think she is Dean. She's v healthy too. She'll birth in May sometime.
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Great photos for sure. What's the temperature there?
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26deg right now. It was warmer earlier, at least 28 here and 30+ in town. Someone submitted a picture of a butterfly perched on the snow yesterday, which is this years first submittal. It's a Comptons Tortoise Shell that overwinters as an adult. They fly late in the fall and and wake up early in the spring. I generally have at least one come awake and fly around in my house over the winter, but not this year, at least not yet. And my browsing cow has come back twice since this morning; she's walking in right now for dessert.
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It resembles a Mourning Cloak which is another butterfly species that winters over beneath the loose bark on dead or dying trees.





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We have lots of those up here also Dean. They have a much darker wing and a very distinctive light colored band along the trailing edge of their topwings that can be seen from a long ways off. They come out very early in the spring also. The Tortoise Shells like to winter over in the cracks of log houses and often come right inside through the cracks. I always feed them honey or sugar water when they come awake in winter but they never last long. Here's a shot of one sipping on my floor in 2011.
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My pregnant cow seemed to be pretty hungry for browse so I cut down about 8 small birch trees for her in my lower yard two days ago. She found them last night and and is in right now for a night time snack. She didn't seem to mind my standing on the deck taking pictures. I'll let her clean these trees of tips and buds then I'll cut and stack the trees then cut down a bigger one for her. We take care of our girls in Alaska!
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