Category Archives: The Farm

New Glass

We spent a lit­tle time down at the expen­sive toy store ear­li­er this week­end. We came away with two new-to-us lens­es. The first is rather dull — it’s a straight across replace­ment for the 70 – 300 that we already had. The new one has VR, Nikon’s image stabilization/vibration reduc­tion pack­age. The longer the lens the more I appre­ci­ate VR. … 

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Puppy, Puppy, Puppy

(edit — this is old. I mean, real­ly. The pup­py already lives with us. It’s utter chaos.) I did­n’t intend it to hap­pen this way. I mean, I did intend to some day, per­haps not too long from now, get anoth­er Bou­vi­er. But not right now. Except that right now is how it hap­pened. Or will hap­pen. Real … 

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Game Cameras in the Late Winter and Early Spring

It’s been a while since I’ve post­ed any of the game cam­era pic­tures. Even when we are ignor­ing them they sit in the woods and on the dri­ve­way and qui­et­ly go about their busi­ness. Most­ly we get shots of deer. A few of which have iden­ti­fi­able traits. There’s Torn Ear. and one that I call Short Neck. … 

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More from the Game Cameras

June was a bad month for game cam­eras. One of the Brown­ings died — no idea why. And the replace­ment Bush­nells are tak­ing some time to get set up the way we want them. Still there were a cou­ple of inter­est­ing sight­ings and good pic­tures. Things we see dur­ing the day: We’ve seen both the res­i­dent does —  skinny … 

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Game Cameras Early Fall 2016

or… What’s Doing on the Farm We’ve had a bit of a fail. One of the cam­eras was hors de com­bat due to a mis-for­­mat­ed card. The cam­era locat­ed in the sep­tic field took no pic­tures dur­ing Sep­tem­ber and Octo­ber. Mean­while — here’s what’s been doing on the pas­ture road and dri­ve­way at the begin­ning of fall. Our bear … 

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Game Cameras — June 2019

The June cam­eras caught our coy­ote pair cruis­ing around. It’s also the sea­son of young things. A nice run of video of a doe and her two fawns in our woods. We had a vis­it from a lady elk. Our first elk here in 20 years. Some weird bird arti­facts from the dri­ve­way cam. A bonus … 

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