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Churchill Trip : August 17-31, 2023

Part 4 - Regina to Saratoga

August 28: Regina SK to Saratoga WY

We cleared US Customs at Williston. Then, it was on to Saratoga with a small dogleg to see Devils Tower. The route took us over the Black Thunder Coal Mine, which I later learned is the second largest coal producer in the country.

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Facing down a 737

Williston Basin International Airport

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Devils Tower

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Keyhole Reservoir

Black Thunder Coal Mine

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One of the large draglines

It's getting mountainous SE of Casper WY

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Difficulty Creek

Saratoga Lake

Saratoga WY

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Pronghorn

August 29: Saratoga Lake and Medicine Bow Mountains

Up in the Snowy Range of the Medicine Bow Mountains, I had close encounters with moose and pika.

Black-billed Magpie

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Double-crested Cormorants

Killdeer

American White Pelican

Brewer's Blackbird

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Pied-billed Grebe

Sandhill Cranes

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Marsh Wren

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Blue-winged Teal

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North Platte River

Skipper butterfly

Purplish Copper

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Fritillary butterfly

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Wood Nymph butterfly

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Anglewing butterfly

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Interspecies dating?

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Milbert's Tortoiseshell

Lake Marie

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Mirror Lake

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Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel

Yellow-bellied Marmot

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Mountain Blue laying an egg

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A speedy chipmunk

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Columbine

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Libby Flats lookout

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Moose

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3 bull moose here

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Phoebus Parnassian

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Pika

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Lookout Lake

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Marmots everywhere!

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Ibis

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Common Nighthawk

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