walkswithblackflies
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Oct 31, 2017 10:13:16 GMT -8
I once saw a woodchuck in a tree, about 10' up.
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marie
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Post by marie on Nov 3, 2017 12:07:37 GMT -8
That's rather amazing, I had no idea. I mean I've long suspected squirrels wanted to eat my face...now I know.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 8:08:45 GMT -8
I was sitting on my back deck having coffee when a dove landed on the fence just a few feet away......then a hawk snatched the dove and was gone......we me sitting watching the whole thing less than 5 feet away...
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Post by hungodd94 on Jun 11, 2018 23:52:10 GMT -8
Maybe nature the greastest novelist with the most amazing twists with its stories
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whistlepunk
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Post by whistlepunk on Jun 14, 2018 10:47:23 GMT -8
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Post by Coolkat on Jun 14, 2018 12:12:14 GMT -8
Now that is cool stuff.
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davesenesac
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Post by davesenesac on Jul 8, 2018 11:47:29 GMT -8
Huge Mono Lake along the Eastern Sierra is a great place to find unusual weird nature. The above is a sand tufa structure that are found along the southern shores of the lake. They are related to the more familiar taller harder tufa towers that rise out of the lake. Sand tufas were formed below the lake surface as fresh water percolated up through sands in the alkaline lake bed then reacted chemically with the alkaline lake water creating calcium carbonate mineral forms with a sand matrix.
There is one moderately well known zone visitors see these formations at and a second less known that is even more spectacular. By hiking cross country through rabbitbush for miles eastward from South Tufa one will find additional small areas with sand tufas. The below image looks down on one formation that shows how the hard walls of the hollow tubes spring waters flowed through are quite thin and fragile.
Some areas along the south shores are covered by sand dunes per below thus though generally level, walking takes extra effort. In the below image frame center background, one can see the Mono Craters of geologically recent origin that also extend into the lake as islands. The silicon rich material from their eruptions was not lava but rather pumice that is so light it can float on water and obsidian, a black glass. And that is also what the sand is composed of. Mid May this spring, I hiked maybe 4 miles from a dirt road end cross country along the shore zones, something that few others ever do that I would recommend for those seeking the weird. The best time to do such is May when the Sierra Crest to the west is still snow covered and vegetation is green with modest wildflowers.
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rebeccad
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 8, 2018 21:01:02 GMT -8
sand tufa structure that are found along the southern shores of the lake. I didn't know about those. We will have to do that hike next time. We periodically camp at the Mono Craters and shoot the tufa towers at sunrise, but this would be a nice variation. |
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Image Credit / Coolkat
