What wildlife do you see on your rides?

[shootingstar]

We're in the Rocky Mountain area vacationing right now.

While cycling back on a road, I heard piercing whistle and on time, 6 different tiny prairie dogs shot out of their burrows in a ditch and raced over to the other side...5 ft. away. It was remarkable, all on time they scampered out, like a race.

Prairie dog is like tiny gopher and chipmunk hybrid. Very common in our area and in Calgary.

Yesterday while cycling near a lake, there were several groups of bighorn wild sheep with their kid babies feeding. Bighorn are the ones where the males have full curved back horns. Yea, I'll get a photo up soon..

[Owlie]

I had to stop to shoo a black rat snake off the trail. She was sunning herself, and I didn't want her to get hit. A mile or so later, I happened on a family of wild turkeys (I counted mom and two mostly-grown chicks). I've never seen them on the trail before, so that was kind of cool.