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Post by pontiac1940 on Jul 14, 2020 0:15:59 GMT
Canola, Massacre Butte and summer clouds ... think I have posted this hill before. Near Cowley, Alberta. July 13, 2020. The hill was reportedly the site of a massacre in 1867: On the prominent elevation, two miles north of Cowley, off No. 3 Highway, an immigrant train of twelve men, women and children were massacred in 1867 by a war party ... The party, led by a Blood warrior, Medicine Calf, struck while the group was in night camp ...The victims were part of Captain Fiske's expedition from Minnesota and had left the main party in Montana.
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Post by hmca on Jul 14, 2020 1:49:07 GMT
Your image needs to be viewed full size to be truly appreciated. Must be beautiful to see it in person.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jul 14, 2020 1:54:17 GMT
Thanks Helen. Lots of yellow canola fields in this area. It is quite nice to see. The mule deer love eating the canola plants and are hanging around the fields wandering between barley and canola. They'll be fat as pigs by fall.   |
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Post by jackscrap on Jul 14, 2020 2:32:17 GMT
Wonderful photos Clive, the colour of the canola against that blue sky looks so beautiful. I love the mule deer, looks like plenty of canola and other goodies to go round, do they have any animal enemies?
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Post by blackmutt on Jul 14, 2020 3:06:35 GMT
Lovely photos as always Clive
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jul 14, 2020 3:30:51 GMT
do they have any animal enemies? Thanks Judy and Jacki. Jacki, mule deer have a hard life here in the plains but they are successful breeders and their population is good. They only live about 6 to 10 years in the wild. Twins are more common than single fawns. The biggest threats are coyotes that will take down weak or injured deer. There was a cougar around this spring and it probably ate one or two. Winter can be hard on them. They are well adapted, but the winter of 2017-2018 produced huge snow drifts around here because it gets very windy and the snow piles up. That spring there were maybe only half as many in the local area. Two whole carcasses were found at the summer development. They had not been predated, but had been covered under dense packed snow. They had died under the snow. They bed down for the night and by morning they can be covered with 3 feet of densely packed drift snow...drifts that winter were huge..some areas can be bare but the trees and buildings collect big drifts. We see a deer with a bad leg injury every year or two and they are easy pickings for coyotes. Hard life. Some people here don't like them as they eat our trees and shrubs. We love having them around and one or two come into our yard on occasion. We fell fortunate to have them. I/we go for a drive most evenings just to watch them. Clive |
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Post by Lillias on Jul 14, 2020 8:07:41 GMT
Love your photos Clive and learning about your mule deer. Nature in the raw can be hard indeed.
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Post by hmca on Jul 14, 2020 13:42:22 GMT
Interesting reading, Clive. Love the first photo where he is immersed in the canola field.
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Post by jackscrap on Jul 15, 2020 3:24:30 GMT
Thanks Clive for your interesting reply, how lucky you are to be able to enjoy them in their natural surroundings.
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Post by whippet on Jul 16, 2020 18:50:54 GMT
I have just been to look for a photo of our rape seed fields. Only to discover, that it, and canula are the same thing. So, I won't bother.  |
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Post by preeb on Jul 20, 2020 15:55:14 GMT
do they have any animal enemies? Thanks Judy and Jacki. Jacki, mule deer have a hard life here in the plains but they are successful breeders and their population is good. They only live about 6 to 10 years in the wild. Twins are more common than single fawns. The biggest threats are coyotes that will take down weak or injured deer. There was a cougar around this spring and it probably ate one or two. Winter can be hard on them. They are well adapted, but the winter of 2017-2018 produced huge snow drifts around here because it gets very windy and the snow piles up. That spring there were maybe only half as many in the local area. Two whole carcasses were found at the summer development. They had not been predated, but had been covered under dense packed snow. They had died under the snow. They bed down for the night and by morning they can be covered with 3 feet of densely packed drift snow...drifts that winter were huge..some areas can be bare but the trees and buildings collect big drifts. We see a deer with a bad leg injury every year or two and they are easy pickings for coyotes. Hard life. Some people here don't like them as they eat our trees and shrubs. We love having them around and one or two come into our yard on occasion. We fell fortunate to have them. I/we go for a drive most evenings just to watch them. Clive We have mule deer here on the Colorado high prairie too. I'm always surprised at how many there are around here, since they are typically a creature of the mountains and forest. We are 150 miles east of the mountains. I shot this a couple of weeks ago as this troop of 5 bucks in velvet crossed the road in front of me while I was driving back to town from my wife's family farm.  |
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