BGuthrie Photos: AZ -- Grand Canyon Natl Park -- South Rim -- Animals

AZ -- Grand Canyon Natl Park -- South Rim -- Animals:

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Description of Pictures: California Condors, squirrels, a coyote.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GRCSA_030602_015.JPG: Cicada season was in full bloom at the Grand Canyon. These little clicking bugs were all over the place.
2. GRCSA_030602_024.JPG: You're not allowed to feed the wildlife in a national park. If you do, it's punishable with a $700 fine. They tell you that human food can make animals sick and that the animals may have rabies or something. The real reason is that the animals will get used to living on hand-outs and when the tourists fade away in the winter, the animals will not know how to fend for themselves anymore and will die of starvation. I would never had fed them but I'm willing to photograph animals who others have fed. These squirrels (there were dozens popping up) were all over the Grand Canyon Village begging for food.
3. GRCSA_030602_048.JPG: Large ravens were about as well. It was apparent that they lived on human scraps as the squirrels did but you had a feeling that they also lived on squirrels. They would periodically gang up to chase the California Condors who were many times their sizes.
4. GRCSA_030602_089.JPG: These are California Condors which the park is trying to reintroduce into the area. They used to inhabit this world but they were pushed out by changing environmental conditions and continued human pressure; by 1924 they were gone. In 1996, a group of condors was reintroduced to the park in an effort to re-establish a population in Arizona. Additional ones have been released here each year. Many of them frequent the canyon during the summer. The park service is waiting to see if any would successfully nest and breed in the wild, something that hasn't happened since 1984 (!). They start breeding at six or seven years, hatch a single egg, and are rarely unsuccessful in raising a chick until their second or third attempt. They are ugly birds with massive wing spans (9 to 9-1/2 feet). Each weighs about twice what a bald eagle does. And each of the birds is numbered for tracking purposes. You can see the numbers "74" on this bird's wings.
5. GRCSA_030602_167.JPG: Here a raven chases a much larger than himself California Condor
6. GRCSA_030602_189.JPG: At one point, over two dozen condors were flying around me. It was quite impressive.
7. GRCSA_030602_194.JPG: Squirrel begging @ Grand Canyon
8. GRCSA_030602_229.JPG: California Condor @ Grand Canyon, recently reintroduced
9. GRCSA_030602_256.JPG: This coyote, also apparently fed by humans in violations of all of the laws, was willing to put up with me taking pictures as long as he thought I might have food for him.
10. GRCSA_030602_257.JPG: Coyote @ Grand Canyon
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