Lots of Animals On Animal Wednesday! Correction!

This animal in the top and third photo are NOT pikas they are prarie dogs! Oops, my bad.


Correction: This is a Pika:



Pika's live at elevation above 10 thousand feet (read about them here) and we saw them on Medicine Wheel Mountain in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. They are about the size of large rabbit. Now after reading my own link I am not sure if these are Pika after all. They do not have round ears and they have long tails. Perhaps they are something else. Any guesses? DH was sure they are pikas.

Chipmunks are much smaller, and will eat out of your hand on the Needles Highway, South Dakota.

Buffalo or Bison abound in Custer State Park, South Dakota.

 ...in the Black Hills...

These horses lived where we stayed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

 This is the view outside The Odd Duck where we stayed for three days.

Here they are saying good bye as we departed.

My DH sits on air with the Devil's Tower towering behind him.

Happy Animal Wednesday

Henry V says hi.

Owls, Buzzards, Llamas, Horses, Scarecrows All on an Animal Wednesday!

One of the perks living where we live is that on a lazy garage sale Saturday we can drive a few short miles (I mean literally a few blocks past the last residential area) and find WILD LIFE literally at our back door. You already are well acquainted with our burrowing owls who live right off the golf course that is across the street from the local car dealerships. and they have a birds eye view (sorry, couldn't help myself there)...

of the buzzards that are flying around just outside the city limits...

past this tree that looked like a painting to us...very Impressionistic, don't you agree?

This mom and baby drew our attention over to the side of the road so I could get out and snap this photo...

...and then we came upon the most delightful surprise of all...

this little herd of young, small llamas...

and let me tell you they were as curious about us as we were of them...

Are they not just the cutest things you have ever seen (besides your grandchildren maybe?)

I loved their stylish hair cuts. Thought they could be on stage with all the kids on American Idol.

(addition: I think my llamas are alpacas...I just did a Google search to see the differences and alpacas are these small guys, and llamas are much larger. The latter raised as pack animals and the former for their fur/yarn. Or so a weaver on another blog said.) and last but not least was this dancing gal, who I believe she could be heard to say she was auditioning for "So you think you can dance!" Look for her! I think she'll do great.

Happy Animal Wednesday to all of you.

What critters did you meet up with this week? PS

No photo of Henry V today

or his latest

KILL

!

Too bloody, and too gory.

If you are eating breakfast, lunch or dinner while reading this stop now!

He left me a decapitated rat

at our front doorstep

and I had to hose down the walkway

after disposing of the poor creatures parts.

Now go look at the llamas again to get that image out of your head

and I will too.

;-)