Outside, Over There: August 2014

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Bear

I arrived to check the trail camera today to find that it was not in it's usual spot. It's cable was still in place, and the camera had been turned around to the opposite side of the tree by this fellow..

The 25 second video is on Youtube….at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Bih_QTV7I&feature=youtu.be

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Great Heron

Heron walking along the shore .
I used an old telephoto lens and obtained a pretty shaky record shot. While there has been a heron on The Lake for years, this is the first time one has spent over a half hour fishing right in front of our house.
We were wondering what he found so interesting up ON shore…that HUGE snake, maybe

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Young Bear Visits the Grove

In the video accompanying these stills, you can see the bear "marking " the tree on the left by rubbing himself against it. I will try to create a merged video of the several 25 second clips and upload it to YouTube.

I don't usually put food out in the woods, but several loaves of stale bread came to hand and it seemed like a nice treat for the Raccoon and Porcupine families living together in the Boulder Condo across the brook. Only one Bear had been in the woods to date, in early July, so finding this fellow on the Trail Camera was a surprise. As was the interesting exchange between Raccoon and Gray Fox!