What It Feels Like For a Ferret Watcher
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2012
No coyotes in sight right now, the Great Horned Owls are off in the cottonwoods closer to the river. She looks at us, then ducks down, then back up, as we draw closer. Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night.
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