wildlife!

[ilanarama]

Last weekend we hiked to Ice Lake and Island Lake, up South Mineral Creek about ten miles west of Silverton, in the San Juan Mountains. We saw about ten marmots, who nicely posed for us, an ermine (we think - it could have been an ordinary weasel, but it was very small, the right size for an ermine) who darted all around the rocks quite close to us, and a fox (who didn't pose very well, so he came out blurry).









Fourteen pictures (thumbnails and links) plus captions on my website.

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[zadcat.livejournal.com]

Marmots also waddle rather appealingly. There's a whole colony of them here over by the old Expo 67 U.S. pavilion, the Bucky Bubble (http://www.earthstation9.com/Pictures/US_Pavilion_Minirail.jpg). You only have to sit still for a few minutes and you'll see them marmoting about.

That weasel is the cutest damn weasel I've ever seen.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yes! We watched them waddle all over. One of them waddled rather close to us and our snacks, but wasn't bold enough to actually snatch our chocolate bars from under our noses.