Monday, December 22, 2014

The Grey Fox

Click on the box on the bottom of the video box to view full screen...
The Fox seems to follow after the Deer...
Here's a youtube link to a video of the young buck that this fox was following....

Friday, December 19, 2014

Tracks in the Snow

December 17th, 2014:
Fisher Cat tracks in the snow.....Shaped like a raccoon track, but larger..
And with sharp claws evident...

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Squirrels and Chipmunks in the Bird Feeder

Himself has been chasing small mammals of all sizes and colors out of the bird feeder this morning, but they weren't too worried.
What worked?  The Eagle cast a large dark shadow over the deck about 11 am,  and the little mammals vanished.  Its now 1 pm, and still no sign of their return.


On the Trail Camera Today:

Sunday, December 14, 2014

The December Survivor


Watch him on youtube

Hunters take note: since the snow storm last Monday the only new tracks in the woods have been human. No sign of deer anywhere near The Grove. Hopefully this handsome fellow is hiding deeper in the hills,  and we will be seeing him again next year.


The Lost Surveyor

When I saw boot tracks in the snow, I was expecting a  photo of  "Hunter and his gun"  on the trail camera,  not a Surveyor with pencil and pink ribbons!
He was  WAY out of his way on that  bitter cold Monday afternoon,  December 8th, 2014. (Date stamp didn't reset when I changed the batteries last week.)

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Outside on Sunday

Sunday: 30 degrees; The Thanksgiving snow had melted down, and it was time to replace batteries in the trail camera.  It hadn't taken any new photos since November 23rd.  Between Thanksgiving and cataract surgery, I hadn't been up in the woods for a couple of weeks! Even without photos, the remaining snow  told the story of our Woods: It's Deer Week, and there was  A Deer Hunt: Big Human Tracks and Little  Human Tracks, in and out several times, their quest encouraged by the criss crossing of deer, coyote and fox tracks.   And telling, too; no sign of blood or drag marks in the snow,  making Yours Truly happy.  We don't have so many deer here  that a "culling hunt" is in order.
No new photos, so here's one of a very thin summer bear; hope he fattened up the last couple of months of fall.

A bear from Summer