DianaT
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What Tiny Critters Lurk at Night?
Tiny tracks left behind in the damp dunes.
Just curious if anyone can identify them.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishabductor
they are hermit crab tracks. we have them here, at night go out with a flash light and you can track them down. I have been finding cougan tracks on
our dune!!
[Edited on 8-10-2010 by fishabductor] |
Cougar tracks! Now that would be real interesting!
Thanks for the info and we will watch for them.
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Hermit crabs, snakes and mice-- great fun when you're sleeping out on the beach at night!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishabductor
| Quote: | Originally posted by Mulegena
Hermit crabs, snakes and mice-- great fun when you're sleeping out on the beach at night! |
We used to walk the beaches barefoot at night without flashlights...one night we drove the quad down and saw 2 rattlers on the beach in the same area
we fish at night...from then on out it was flashlights and shoes....
...and lots of sporpions, too!
I would have never guessed to find rattlers on the beach!! |
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Not just at night, but during the day I don't walk through the dunes barefoot----seen too many sorpions, centipedes, velvet ants, red ants, and other
stinging creatures that live there.
I just hope any and all snakes stay asleep and hidden during the day. I know they are there, but out of sight, out of mind. 
I love seeing the tracks in the morning because they tell about life after dark in the dunes, and once the sand dries, and there is a little breeze,
the evidence of that life disappears.
[Edited on 8-11-2010 by DianaT]
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FOUR AM GHOST AT RANCHO EL METATE
Hopefully you will not consider this a hijack! David
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CHUPACABRAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ELINVESTIG8R
Hopefully you will not consider this a hijack! David |
NO, not at all----the often hidden life at night is interesting, ---in all forms.
We have seen a few strange things in the night sky around here----
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DianaT, Thanks... David
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