Crimson Bears Iverson, Connally place names on record wall

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At my friends’ house, we spent some very pleasant hours at a big window, watching a pair of tree swallows go in and out of a nest box and surveying a bend in the Salmon River, where mergansers rested on a sand bar. In the eroded river bank, bank swallows had dug several nest burrows just below the grassy turf line, and the swallows swooped through the air. In the bank below the swallow nests were three larger holes. A pair of kingfishers kept going in and out of one of them, occasionally scuffing out a bit of sand. They copulated on a pile of dead branches in the river. That seems very late to be thinking of starting a family; perhaps they failed on their first try.

Then, among the willows lining the river, we saw a large c level contact list brown animal, very close to a willow tree. Binoculars revealed it to be a moose reaching up to feed on leaves, a cow moose with two ear tags and a collar. Her two calves, maybe about a month old, gamboled about on the beach, dashing into the water and back up to the brush where mama foraged and back down to the water’s edge. They cavorted around over there for some time, before trailing after mama back into the brush. What fun!