Showing posts with label Prairie Dogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prairie Dogs. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Good Fences #20- Colorado Country

For this edition of Good Fences, I have a few more photos to share from our Colorado vacation a few years ago.  Most of these images were captured along Colorado highways on our return trip home- how I hated to leave such a beautiful place!  


A fence can't get any more simple than this one...
but the scenery in the background is beautiful!
(This is actually the Tetons in Wyoming)


A herd of elk were seen moving from an overgrown meadow to a grazing area


This Red-Tailed Hawk found a sturdy post upon which to eat his snake meal


 He hurriedly devoured his last bite of snake-


then off he fled...


A common critter seen in open fields along several portions of the Colorado highways 
is the Prairie Dog- we saw literally hundreds of burrows as we traveled through Colorado.


I tried to sneak a closer view, but all I saw was "tails" as they fled to their burrows.  Cute!


A young antelope stood still long enough for me to capture a good view of him- 
another common animal seen  in the fields of Colorado.

I hope you enjoyed my images from the country side of Colorado :)

Linked with Theresa at Good Fences
and Eileen at Saturday's Critters
Thanks, Theresa and Eileen for hosting these wonderful memes!