DarleneKBoggs

Wish I could have gotten a clearer picture, but it wasn't staying still for more than a second or two!

Thanks for all your comments and the ID! This was the first of these I've seen & I was fascinated by it's wing movement & the color changes

Thank you, Maria! It was really fun being able to watch her from so close

Alice, the peanut was just a shell left by the previous user of the spot. We try not to leave things around as much as possible!

Thanks.Shelly, that does look like it!

Thanks, Aaron!

Thanks for the link, Janet. It was very interesting! These three were back in my yard today, for a couple of hours & I got some good video of the fawns running & jumping as they played. Soon as I can figure out how, I'll post them!

This is a bluebull, scientific name H. hispanica has paler flowers produced on all sides of the upright stem, less recurved petals and blue pollen. I have a bunch of these growing wild in my yard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinthoid...

Great photos! Have you seen the herds of bighorns on the Columbia? On I-84 in Oregon, usually near Blalock Canyon, a bit west of Arlington, there's a large herd that are frequently visible from the freeway. We saw tham last summer, but were towing a trailer & they were on the other side of the freeway from us, so I didn't get any good pics. I did snap a few through the window but didn't get any good enough to post!

You got it right! Definetly a golden mantle. When I was a kid in the mid 50s in Central Oregon, my dad used to catch a few of these & we made pets of them. Not a cool thing to do these days, but back then, there were so many of them in our area that no one thought anything of it! They were actually quite easy to tame & a lot of fun for a bunch of kids!