Curious Youngster

The trail cameras confirm that this year's fawn class is growing into young adulthood.  In a few instances the fawns are almost the size of mom.

In this instance curiosity seems to have gotten the best of this one.   

 

Daily Dose

It's not just me; social media - Face Book in particular - is a vessel for disgruntled and aggrieved individuals.  Fortunately, they are in the minority.  Nevertheless, a waste of valuable bandwidth.  Clickbait.    

Since the beginning of this year I have endeavored to be a better person.  Not a Mother Theresa - just better.  And as a consequence I truthfully don't have very many grievances.  I have opinions and am not hesitant to speak truth to power; but that's not the same as full-blown grievance.

As a public service and in the interest of spreading positivity on the interweb here are some recent trail camera photos from our woods.  

A daily dose of happiness and cuteness....

 

Milestone - Part Two

The number one animal appearing in the digital captures of Snapshot Wisconsin trail cameras is Odocoileus virginianus, the whitetail deer.

Same here.

Fun Fact: The top four animals captured here are as follows (in rank order) - Deer, Turkey, Cottontail and Racoon.

 

 

Menagerie

From the trail camera trap line there is a curious doe, bearded hen, a ghostly whitetail, velvet buck and a couple of fawns.

 

Daily Dose

It's not just me; social media - Face Book in particular - is a vessel for the disgruntled aggrieved and harbors adults who act like children.  

Since the beginning of this year I have endeavored to be a better person.  Not a Mother Theresa - just better.  And as a consequence I truthfully don't have very many grievances.  I have opinions; but that's not the same as full-blown grievance.

As a public service and in the interest of spreading positivity on the interweb here are some recent trail camera photos from our woods.  

A daily dose of happiness and cuteness....

 

 

Daily Dose

Is it just me or does social media seem to have an overabundance of grievance?

Since the beginning of this year I have endeavored to be a better person.  Not a Mother Theresa - just better.  And as a consequence I truthfully don't have very many grievances.  I have opinions; but that's not the same as full-blown grievance.

As a public service and in the interest of spreading positivity on the interweb here are some recent trail camera photos from our woods.  

A daily dose of happiness and cuteness....

Momma And The Twins

From the Bushnell camera we host on behalf of Snapshot Wisconsin there was this.

Twins are growing-up..... 

 

2024 Recruits

For the longest time I fretted-over the fact that I hadn't seen any turkey poults (young); either in person or on the trail cameras.  The wet, wet spring weather is good for suppressing infestations of spongy (gypsy) moth caterpillars but generally not so good for ground-nesting birds.  Then, all of a sudden, the turkeys materialized.  Hens and their newly-hatched young'uns.

Many of the poults were smaller - implying they were hatchlings from a second laying - and going into the fall their are certainly more grouse-sized poults than what would ordinarily be observed.

Better smaller than none at all.  Nature works that way occasionally.  Come to think of it I'm seeing some awfully small fawns too.

From the trail camera trap line are these photos and videos....

Small birds

A solitary poult

Some larger birds

And a smallish fawn

More Deer Camp

My business partner is visiting this weekend with her youngest son and a cousin to participate in the December antlerless gun hunt.

Which means you cannot shoot any of these.

If they are still alive....

A Half Dozen

A selection of critters from the trail camera trap line.

Coyote

Long beard gobblers

Curious doe

Raccoon

Velvet buck

And a possum

Critters

From the trail cameras there are...

Mama and the twins

A brood flock

A fawn

And the obligatory coyote

Coming and Going

From the video trail camera recently there was this.

Mama and her little one out for a stroll...

Fourteen minutes later - spooked!

Mama and the Twins

There's no way to definitively know for sure this isn't the same doe appearing multiple times on the trail cameras with her twin fawns.  I suppose if you carefully reviewed the photos and videos to match the spots on the fawns you might be able to answer that question.

I'm not doing it.

Too many deer.

Too little time...

Fawns Are Cheap

Plenty of activity on the trail cameras lately.

So many fawns it is safe to say that fawns are cheap.

A renewable resource....

And More Buckaroos

The rut is kicking it into high gear now and the chase is on as male whitetails have romance on their minds.

There's been plenty more daylight deer activity so it's appropriate to share some more buck and doe photos.

Including a mutant!