Ghost Deer

Interesting composition.

A ghostly image of a sprinting buck.

Those antlers will start to fall before too long and the girls and I will be going shed-hunting.

Deer!

Now that the deer hunting season has ended the deer seem even more brazen.

Remember that new camera location I mentioned a few days ago?

Check this out...

Four deer.  That is almost a small herd.

The Hairy Eyeball

This doe was giving a trail camera a very close examination.

People Cam

Not only are pictures of wildlife captured on the trail cameras - but people sometimes are too.

Like this one of The Frau snowshoeing with the dogs...

And this one of me fetching and swapping-out the SD card...

One of the new cameras has died.  It's electronic brain seems to have fried itself.  Down to two cams for the time being.  Waiting on a warranty replacement.

New Location - New Year Deer

Shortly before the end of last year I situated one of the working trail cameras at a new location.

What with all the snow on the ground all I had to do is look for an active game trail and set-up the camera on a likely good location.

So far so good.

A new year deer on the first day of the year.
 

Still Don't Have My Deer

Deer hunting has been an exercise in frustration this year.

Countless hours of sitting and no decent shots presenting themselves.  Not that it's all bad.  There have been plenty of observations.  Lots of quality time sitting in the woods.  Birds to watch too.

But when you see mile upon mile of deer trails like this...

And deer after deer on the trail cameras like this...

 It's all the more frustrating when you don't get your deer.

I still don't have my deer and the season is now at its end.

Modern Day Sledding

On my way to the taxidermist yesterday to pick-up my bear skull I drove through the small town of Denmark, WI.

Denmark High School is home to the Vikings.  I'm going to watch the mighty Green Bay Packers defeat the Minnesota Vikings tonight in the sacred House of Lambeau.  But now I'm getting off-topic.

An interesting phenomenon in the parking lot at Denmark High School was observed.

Snowmobiles.

The students and staff ride snowmobiles to school.  How cool is that?

Anyway - here's the skull.

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The mount should be ready by early March.