Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals.

Eugene Miya wrote:
> Hey Ed, the CA Auto Club did a short life list of 3 of their writers
> giving 4 species each of must see animals.  Your net.species made the
> cover (Churchill branch of the family, a nice photo).
> 
> Polar Bear
> condor
> elephant seal
> moose
> gray whale
> roosevelt elk
> sandhill crane
> gray wolf
> bald eagle
> grizzly bear
> orca
> bighorn sheep
> 
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> I keyed the list in with my Palm.
> 
> 
> Let's see Grizzlies are on the CA flag and are extinct as the State
> Animal.  They recommend Klamath Falls to see Bald eagles (?, but then
> I've had much better luck in S. UT to say nothing in AK).  Orcas just a
> month ago near Seward.  No bats, hodags, etc.
> 
> A slight bias to land mammals.

We have all the eagles we can see around here every calving season, and 
even Golden Eagles on occasion...
I prefer osprey, which we have at the local lakes.
Condor is pretty darn rare.
I've looked off the cliffs at my prior residence to see gray whales.
I missed the elephant seal school field trip my wife and son went on.
Sandhill crane in wrong end of country and pretty rare.
I've seen griz at a respectful distance, and moose grazing in a pond.
I have yet to see a wolf or the Roosevelt Elk or Bighorn Sheep, though 
there was a chance in the Glacier/Yellowstone area (and other people 
with binoculars saw a sheep near Yosemite, but I couldn't find it on the 
rock face).
Orcas are out of my range.

I'm assuming zoos do not count.

Dan