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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