Just thought I’d share a couple of today’s pictures from a private lake called Bass Lake in NE Ohio. I took the canoe out this morning and could not resist taking some Indian Summer pictures. The weather will become more Fall-like starting tomorrow.There was a heavy algae bloom so the fishing was very slow, and shortly after these pictures were taken the winds picked up to 15-20 mph…not fun with the canoe. It was nice while it lasted, and gave me some exercise getting the canoe back to the dock.
This was a shot from Sunday at Mentor Lagoons where I do a bit of fishing for gills and bass around the docks. These guys were sunning themselves right where I cast, so I took their picture instead of trying to fish.
We have some people who feel the need to feed the local wildlife (not me), so I got this shot of a woodchuck getting filled up on stale bread. Sadly, they lose their fear of people, and this shot was from about 20 feet away.
Don’t think that thought did not cross my devious mind.
I was with my wife on Sunday and we saw two whitetail deer killed along the freeway. I went to stop to harvest the tails, and you guessed it, she would not allow them in her car. She’s such a girly-girl. I’ll have to go back with the truck and get them along with all the squirrels in my development. We have so many road kills on squirrels that you could make a dozen full length squirrel coats each year. Hey…maybe there’s a market there. Hmmmm…
Thank you, Joe, for the beautiful pictures! Amy and I were out leaf peeping and taking photos at Little Buffalo State Park today. As I was walking along I heard Amy say, “What’s that?”. There at my feet was a pile of old, rotting mono-filament line. I told her what that line could do to a duck or goose and she asked me what kind of a hog would do such a thing. God, I am a fortunate man that loves her to no end. The line has been properly disposed of. My point is those that feed the wildlife do just as much harm as a litterbug!
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Some photos of Bedford Lake where I tried out the 'toon for the first time with the trolling motor.
This is 1 of the 18 “Permit Lakes” here in TN. Being over the magic age of 65 I do not need the permit!
Good Bream, LMB and SMB lake but not that day!! It’s also stocked with Catfish! The shot of the fishing pier is looking north. The far end of the other photo is the dam that forms the lake.
Marmots are members of the genus Marmota, in the rodent family Sciuridae (squirrels).
Marmots are generally large ground squirrels. Those most often referred to as marmots tend to live in mountainous areas such as the Sierra Nevada in the United States or the European Alps. However the groundhog is also properly called a marmot, while the similarly-sized but more social prairie dog is not classified in the genus Marmota but in the related genus Cynomys.
Marmots typically live in burrows, and hibernate there through the winter. Most marmots are highly social, and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed.
Some historians suggest that marmots, rather than rats, were the primary carriers of the Bubonic plague during several historic outbreaks.[1]
The name marmot comes from French marmotte, from Old French marmotan, marmontaine, from Old Franco-Proven?al, from Low Latin mures montani “mountain mouse”, from Latin mures monti, from Classical Latin mures alpini “Alps mouse”.
Marmots mainly eat greens. They eat many types of grasses, berries, lichens, mosses, roots and flowers.
The writings of Marco Polo refer to the marmot as “Pharoah’s rats…”
Oh heck yea. Marmots are just alpine grounhogs. somebody here enlightened me to that fact a while ago too, because I’d never noticed it. anyone ever heard a groundhog whistle? Alpine Marmots whistle alot.
So your “alpine groundhogs” are also called rockchucks out west, right?
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I guess. Maybe. Probably depends on who you talk to. I’m from “out west” and always thought marmots were marmots and ground hogs were what you saw on TV (Puxatoney Phil) that tells you how long winter will last. I thought that until I moved east and have seen some for myself. They look pretty much identical. So, rockchuck, groundhog, marmot. I guess they’re all synonomous, but that’s just my guess.
So your “alpine groundhogs” are also called rockchucks out west, right?
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I guess. Maybe. Probably depends on who you talk to. I’m from “out west” and always thought marmots were marmots and ground hogs were what you saw on TV (Puxatoney Phil) that tells you how long winter will last. I thought that until I moved east and have seen some for myself. They look pretty much identical. So, rockchuck, groundhog, marmot. I guess they’re all synonomous, but that’s just my guess.[/quote:64b8d]
Are these guys just not the cutest things ever? They have a really sweet whistle, till they think you’re getting too close, then it changes to one that will set the hairs on your neck up on end!!
Betty, I understand that there are cowboys, ranchers, farmers, and golf course managers whose language regarding rockchucks is harsher (and grittier) than Cowboy Coffee.
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