Monday October 23, 2017

Monday October 23, 2017
Milford wind farm
Travel on Minersville hwy (130) until you reach the hwy 21 junction (approx 36.7 miles) and turn left (west) onto hwy 21. From there travel 13.6 miles into Milford. Continue straight through Milford on hwy 257 for 4.4 miles. Turn right (east) onto a dirt road with a sign that says geothermal plant. From there drive 5.5 miles until you come to a fork in the road. Take the left fork (north) and drive 3.6 miles. There will be a smaller dirt road to the right (east), take it and go about .2 of a mile. The pronghorn was on the south side of the road.
I saw this pronghorn after picking up a bat monitor for work. She was standing and staring at our vehicle while we passed. We were located in a grassland. The height of the grass/forbs were no more than two feet tall and was relatively dense in the area. There was no slope.
I was with my friend and coworker, Kalli Tyler.
We arrived at the spot around 8:48 am. I made the pronghorn observation at about 8:48 am, but found the scat about 8:54am (according to my photo time stamp...it took us a minute to actually find the scat spot). I spent about a minute observing the scat because I already knew what the animal was. It was fresh. We saw the pronghorn do it's thing and then run off. She stopped and stared at us awhile, though.
It was slightly windy, around a 2 or a 3 the Beaufort scale. The temperature was really nice, around 55 degrees Fahrenheit and it was not cloudy. The elevation of the spot was about 5000 ft.
We spotted this female pronghorn (Antilocarpra americana) not too far off the road (about a 2/10 of a mile). She was the only one in the area. I know it was a female because she was lacking the dark patch that occurs on the male face.
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Publicado el 23 de octubre de 2017 a las 10:20 PM por lyndsayrodriguez