Some friends and I caught this female chuck down in Baja when I was there on vacation a few weeks ago. Judging by the pollen on her mouth, I think she'd been eating the yellow enceilia blossums.
-Alice
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Baja Chuck
aliceinwl
Apr 11, 2005 06:59 PM
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dvl
Apr 11, 2005 08:36 PM
Cool---- how was the weather ( raifall/ drought ) that year? She look big & fat compared to pics I have seen of drought stricken chucks.
DVL
aliceinwl
Apr 11, 2005 09:13 PM
We caught her in Catavinia. It looked like there had been a lot of rain there this year (relatively speaking of course). There were lots of wild flowers in bloom and there was a big blooming enceilia near her rock pile.
It was still fairly cool when we were down there. I think that the day we caught her the temp made it up into the mid 70's. We saw another pair of chucks on a rock pile about an hour later as we were driving down the road. We pulled over and walked out to the pile, but they must have seen us coming. They never re-emerged. It seemed like the chucks were only out for a brief window between 10 and 1.
I think that she had just emerged when we snagged her. We caught her on the hike out and we had passed by her rock when we were hiking in. I'm sure we would have seen her on the hike in, if she'd been out. She was very good natured and seemed to take the whole ordeal in stride. After a brief photo shoot, we let her return to her rock pile.
-Alice
