……………we saw a number of trout today since the river has become more shallow; also caught a fish of a white colour on the belly and sides and of a bluish cast on the back which had been accedentally wounded by a setting pole. it had a long pointed mouth which opened somewhat like […]
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Ambystoma maculatum– Big mouth–hidden under the final log with a worm and centipede for a meal. I exclaimed Rare species! but it’s common, fossorial lives in moist woods under cemetery stones and memorials. —-From Exponential Decay Function, Robert Ronnow These are large salamanders (up to 8 inches long) of the family Ambystoma – the mole
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. Friedrich Nietzsche. These are large (11-18 inches long) lizards of the American southwest – within the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts from southern California east to southern Utah and Nevada, western Arizona,
Chuckwalla (Sauromalus obesus) Read More »
Cought a rat in our Stores, which had done some mischief, this rat was about the Sise of a Comn. large rat, larger ears, long whiskers & toes, with a tail long & hairey like a ground Squirel, verry fine fur and lighter than the Common rat. Wind to day as usial from the S.
Bushy Tailed Woodrat (Neotoma cinerea) Read More »
From 50 to 100 Gyrfalcons were delivered to Moscow annually, the highest numbers delivered during the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645–1676). Gyrfalcon trappers in the Russian Arctic in the 13th -18th Centuries, Jevgeni Shergalin. This is a bird of the northern tundra and the world’s largest falcon, weighing up to 4.5 lbs. and 22 inches
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