MASCOTS: Boomerang the Buzzard & Harvey the Hare
Meet Boomerang and Harvey — Dayton Valley Days mascots
Boomerang the Buzzard
Boomerang was chosen as part of our promotion of Dayton Valley Days a few years ago.
The original idea came from a T-shirt we commissioned that pictured caricatures of the local Dayton Valley fauna — a wild mustang, a jack rabbit, a desert tortoise and, of course, a buzzard — the birds are actually known as North American Turkey Vultures.
The vultures — a.k.a. buzzards — layover in the Dayton area during their annual migration and can be seen soaring on the high desert thermals just like gliders. They also perch high in the cottonwood trees along the Carson River while scanning the fields and sagebrush for jackrabbits field mice, ground squirrels and other rodents. Vultures are well-known scavengers, but they are also birds of prey when an opportunity arises.
Mosey on over to Dayton Valley Days this September and pick up a Boomerang T-shirt!
Harvey the Hare
Wild and pesky, Harvey is a black-tailed, long-eared hare, known as a jack-ass rabbit, or jackrabbit for short (the black-tailed hare is common to western North America). Jackrabbits were named for their long ears which resembled the ears on early gold prospector's donkeys or burros, better known as "jack-asses."
Harvey was a natural choice as Boomerang's nemesis. Like other well-known cartoon rabbits, he's endowed with more brains than his real-world kith and kin. Thus, Harvey shows up with "little surprises" for Boomerang on the T-shirts and posters for Dayton Valley Days.
Come on down to Dayton Valley Days and see what Harvey has in store for Boomerang this year!