Lions, and tigers, and bears.

Actu­al­ly moun­tain lions and lit­tle tigers and of course the bears.

Well the big preda­tors are back. There’s about a 20 minute gap between the time the cougar showed up on the still cam­era by the manure pile and the time (he/she?) shows up on the video cam­era in the for­est on the oth­er side of the prop­er­ty. Walked right past the pas­tured ani­mals. The small­er cat is the bob­cat with lit­tle rab­bit snack. And of course our big lum­ber­ing bear.

Things in the woods, August 2018

There are the usu­al things in the woods. The coy­ote has been seen on both cam­eras (video and still) and the bear is still around. Also the first pic­tures of Bucky. He’s got a nice thing going on with his antlers this year. And what will prob­a­bly be the last mow­ing of the year for the for­est road.

Things in the Woods June 2018

We’ve switched one of our cam­eras to record video. We’re exper­i­ment­ing with the length of record­ing. Try­ing to fig­ure out what’s the best com­pro­mise between cap­tur­ing the action and sav­ing on the bat­tery life. It’s look­ing like 15 sec­onds might be the sweet spot.

Here’s a com­pi­la­tion of inter­est­ing things that we saw in June. We’re get­ting some inter­est­ing things. Start­ing with a bit of video one of the bears climb­ing the tri­al up the hill. Then a look  at one of our fat and sassy coy­otes. Bucky makes a late night vis­it. Mid­day we see the rather adorable dog that lives down the hill. And final­ly, the catch of the month: the local owl enjoy­ing a bit of breakfast.

Here’s a bet­ter look at the bear. This is the small one. I think the one in the video above is the big one.

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Lit­tle Bear.

Bonus Video of Bob the Cat.