Wednesday, August 16, 2023

More Wildlife around Livingston, MT

 

Rain Showers moving in over Absaroka Mountains

Variety of wildflowers brighten the landscape

Henbane (Stinky Nightshade)
Used as medicine in light doses for rheumatism, asthma, and toothaches, etc.
in the middle ages.
High doses equals cardiac arress and death.
All plant parts are poisonous but was used in German Beer for flavoring - Pilsen.
Produces 10,000 to 500,000 seeds per plant.

Black-billed Magpies most prolific numbers surpassing all
US travel stops


Colors in the sunlight


Common Tansy

Dotted Gayfeather

Western Tanager male

Western Tanager female
all feeding on Canada Chokecherry with many other song birds...

American Robin juvenile

American Robin adult

Cedar Waxwing

Chokecherry leaves already turning color

Wandering Glider Dragonfly

Desert Evening Primrose

Common Sunflower

Common Wooly Sunflower

Twin White-tailed Deer fawns and doe

Fawns sunning

Mule Deer doe and twins wandering the neighborhood

Doe goes over, fawns crawl under

Red Squirrels are everywhere

Curly-cup Gumweed

Common Raven lives up to it's name

Chipping Sparrow

Dusky Grouse wanders into town

Common Merganser hen and brood on the Yellowstone River

The Sacajawea Park Osprey chicks are now full grown,
returning to the nest every night and food begging each morning.

Parents bring in fish and they rip it apart, sometimes sharing

Osprey juvenile banded on both legs

As juvenile osprey expand and explore their territory, they encounter a lot of attention from the 
Magpies and Crows.

The aggressive harrassing doesn't seem to phase them.


Daily flights are getting longer and farther from the nest

Possibly two of the birds that Noah released from the Ark...

Because a double rainbow appeared over our RV Park
Fulfilling God's promise to never again cover the earth with a flood.

We are lengthing our stay here to be by Ty's brother Daryl as he goes through chemotherapy for lymphoma. Your prayers are appreciated as he is doing quite well.

Love ❤️  & Prayers 🙏 
Ty & Ida Baumann








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