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This was the first time I had ever seen musk oxen head butting. Even though they don't look very fast, they can move quickly! These guys had a lot of energy and I walked a long way while photographing them on Alaska's North Slope.
A herd of elk grazed sedately on a hillside between Nederland and the University of Colorado's Mountain Research Station. I would have preferred a shot showing the face of most in the herd, but this is what they presented. More than 30 elk are visible in this frame.
Most of the year elk can be found in single gender herds, and these are cows, or adult females, which do not grow antlers.
Coyote Buttes is a section of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), spanning extreme South Central Utah and North Central Arizona, just south of US 89 halfway between Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona. It is divided into two areas: Coyote Buttes North and Coyote Buttes South. Visiting either of the Coyote Buttes areas requires purchasing a hiking permit in advance. Only 20 people per day are allowed to hike in.
One of the highlights of Coyote Buttes North Area is the rock formation known as The Wave, a swirling sandstone formation.
The Wave and Buckskin Gulch share the Wire Pass Trailhead on House Rock Valley Road.
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Sometimes, cloud color can surprise you and appear in parts of the sky you didn't expect. That happened to me one morning out at South Coyote Buttes. These small buttes were the closest thing I could run to before the color faded. Sometimes it pays being able to move quickly!
Caught this neat view of the Menan Buttes in Idaho during my flight back from Denver this weekend. (Forgive the low quality, this was taken with my phone!) They're the only volcanic tuff cones formed by fresh water (the adjacent Snake River, or rather its precursor) in America!
Happy Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday! This Pantaloon Bee has excavated in a nest in a crack between the paving stones down my road!
Pantaloon bees get their name from the females’ oversized orange pollen brushes on their hind legs, which give the impression of a bee wearing pantaloons. The females use their 'pantaloons' to help excavate sand as they reverse out of their burrows. This results in a unique fan-shaped spoil heap, making their nests distinguishable from other mining bees.
Commonly associated with coastal and heathland habitats, the females will excavate nesting cavities in sandy soils. Although they often nest in large groups, each female has its' own individual nest. They tend to forage only on flowers from the aster family, particularly ones with yellow composite flowers like Hawk’s beards, Ragworts, Common fleabane, Hawkbits, Cat’s ear and Oxtongues.
Pantaloon Bees can be seen from June to late August. They are commonly found in the southeast coastal areas of England, with some populations occurring in southwest coastal regions, on the west coast of Wales and a few inland sites in the Midlands. They have not been recorded in northern England, Scotland or Ireland.