Sunday, July 20, 2008

Glacier Animal Identification Updates

It's that time again! Rebekah's family was in town a couple weeks ago and we took them to Glacier and really hit the jackpot for animal sightings. I thought I would start out with the new identifications by updating some of the animals already featured in this series:

Bighorn:

Rebekah was able to catch a video of some young bighorn practice their head crashing skills. We also got the chance to pick up a bighorn skull in the discovery center (there were lots of fun things in there). Their horns are really heavy, I'm glad they don't like to headbutt people.



Marmot:

As always the Marmots were not shy for attention. Once we reached Cracker lake we had one very curious hoary Marmot walk right in front of me posing every few seconds.




But not all the attention went to the marmot:



Moose:



We saw several moose with antlers this time on our scouting trip before Rebekah's family came.





Then when they came we saw one as we were hiking on the trail.





I'll have more updates soon with new animals!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh my! I just happened by your post about "When Do I Get a Brownie" and we LOVE that game! Some friends taught it to us and called it Paper Telephone. We use a piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper and fold it over so all that's showing is the last addition (kinda like the story game where you make up 2 lines of a story, fold over to cover one and pass it on). We had a Paper Telephone example on our fridge for the longest time because it made Tom laugh so hard he cried while we were playing. :-)

Hey are you guys going to Homecomming? I don't remember if I asked you that. We're thinking about it. Thomas and very-pregnant Katie will be going. That's all I know of so far.

-Nicky Alworth