Blahg

Goodbye Monday

blahg — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:36:35 +0000

Well, yesterday was my 365th straight day going to photograph prairie dogs. They weren’t always out, but I always got a picture of their holes, or where their holes would be under 2 feet of snow.

I’d like to thank everyone who looked at my pictures and commented. I’d like to especially thank my regular commenter, without whom I would have been a lot more discouraged, and also I’d like to thank my occasional chauffeur without whom I’d have missed photographing on sick days. I’m continuing the project at my new site so there won’t be regular updates here, but I will post pictures from time to time, and not as many prairie dog ones.

The End!

Penultimate Monday

blahg — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:19:24 +0000

Well, It’s been 51 weeks since I started my weekly prairie dog updates and on Feb 20th I will (hopefully) have gone to photograph the prairie dogs every day for a year. So, this week in review:

3 cold prairie dogs:

2 huddled coyotes

1 week to go.

York is a lousy forecaster Monday

blahg — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:00:07 +0000

So, although York didn’t see his shadow on Prairie Dog Day, we got 20 inches of snow the next day. I’m not sure I’ll have new pictures of anything but snow even by next week, so here’s one from earlier this month.
Since my family is 4 adults and 1 juvenile there hasn’t been much playing since the summer, but here I got to see a bit of rare wrasslin’.

Lounging Monday

blahg — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:29:52 +0000

When the weather is 65 and the sun is beating down on you in January, sometimes it’s best to just lay down and soak up the sun, seeing as how it’s likely to snow again any day.

Duo Monday

blahg — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:01:59 +0000

Looking Monday

blahg — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:01:07 +0000

The surest way to tell if a prairie dog barking far off is warning of danger or yelling at a neighbor on its territory is to look at the prairie dogs near you. Do they look concerned or run to their holes? Or do they continue eating while one casually looks over toward the noise? You can’t speak prairie dog, but you can catch hints sometimes. For the record, these guys are reacting to “warning” barking.

Munchy Monday

blahg — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:50:16 +0000

With the weather alternating between snowstorms and 50s highs the melting snow is producing a little bit of greenery, which the prairie dogs like more than the abundant dead grass right now.

New Year Monday

blahg — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:01:20 +0000

Hooray for good weather and Happy New Year to all!

Pining for the Prairie Dogs Monday

blahg — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:42:25 +0000

While it’s comforting to know I have enough photos saved up to cover a dormant period of quite a while, I haven’t seen anyone since Wednesday and the giant snowstorm. They’re all right and having a wonderful time sleeping, but I still miss them. I did see the Christmas Bunny on Christmas and the coyotes snow wrestling on Monday (which I assure you is today), but prairie dogs everywhere have been absent. I really hope they show up before Prairie Dog Day (what those of us in the west use to celebrate Feb 2).

Tumble Tuesday Monday

blahg — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:19:50 +0000

Another snow-day classic for this week.