They're normally nocternal, and we'd catch them at night, and when we'd do trap checks in the morning, we'd weigh them, and then put them someplace cool until we could release them. We wanted to catch other small mammals, like Pocket Mice and Wood Rats. Here's a little guy who hid in my shadow, because he didn't like the sun.
Kangaroo Rats are so neat to watch run. Sadly, I don't have any good video, and YouTube doesn't have anything useful either. When they get up to speed, they can jump about a meter-per-stride.
Yakuleget! I know I'm a mammal guy, but here are some birds. All of them swimming or wading around in the small lake I have by my home. These are last year's birds. There's three species in here. Can you name them all? The picture is small and fuzzy, but I took it from ~400 yards.
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I guess I'll stick with sandpiper (although there are so many similar shorebirds) and female mallard but I have no idea about the other -- the bill, not flat like a duck's, makes it looks like a gull of some kind. Clueless. Worse still, once I know the answer, I won't remember if you ask it again -- mind like a steel trap, no.
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