Deer Damage

The long cold winter has left my cedars looking a bit thin.

Deer browse has stripped them of all of their scaly leaves within reach.

The Arrival of Mud Season

It's here.

Precisely on time.

Mud season.

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The girls are getting a routine hosing-off for the duration...

Talking Turkey

Gobblers on the move.

Watch the video carefully.  Notice something unusual about the first bird?

Ghosts

No, these snapshots have not been photo shopped.

The light conditions were just low enough to trigger the infrared capability of the camera resulting in a black and white image.

I think the result is pretty cool - in a ghostly sort of way...

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Sunrise

No critters on this picture.

What happened was on the first of April it was really, really windy and the motion of the tree set-off the motion detector on the camera triggering about fifty photographs of the same thing.

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The sun rising in the east.

Once and again the trail camera takes a bonus picture of something cool.

Healthy Deer

It's a critical time for the deer a natural food sources are a bit harder to come by this time of year.

Nevertheless, the deer showing-up on the cameras look pretty good.

How many deer do you count?

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Raccoonasaur

Took a rip at one of these last weekend with my trusty Browning Buckmark pistolero.  And sent it to raccoon Valhalla.

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And if I see more of them they'll get more of the same.

Raiders of my nest boxes, predator of ground nesting song birds and one of them took a swipe at my blonde Lab.