At the mendenhall meadows, there all these mounds. I used to assume they were anthills. This summer upon further investigation, no ants were found when i dug through a hill. All i found was clay. Little granules of light grey clay.
Now what are those mounds? Are they abandoned anthills, are they upheaves from the frost?
Now thinking here, i wonder if they all are bare clay, or are some overgrown with grass, trying to picture it that seems the case.
I have no answers for your little mounds but I do love that second picture ... the colours!
ReplyDeletemounds:) thanks Cicero
ReplyDeleteHey wild one
ReplyDeleteDo you have moles in the yukon ? They make little mounds, everything's nice and white in your world now :)Brian(:
I am with Brian, something like a ground squirrel or a gopher.
ReplyDeletei also have no answer for the mounds but i for sure LOVE the pictures - they are breath-taking
ReplyDeleteThanks, but no moles here and gophers didn't dig them, as they always leave a little door, with a little stoop to stand on, enjoying life go by.
ReplyDeleteWe did see one gopher yesterday! most of them are sleeping now.
Since I have LOADS of those hills in the meadows around my place, I can tell you they are anthills. I don't know if they're all active though, but a lot of them are. Interesting that there were no ants in the ones you looked at.
ReplyDeleteI had bears through here this summer and they were digging apart the little hills to get at the ants! I find that all around here, once it opens up into the "meadows" the soil conditions change to become sandier.