Tag: bobcat
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Our Busy Neighborhood
A good neighbor is a very desirable thing. ~Thomas Jefferson While we were in Montana for a couple of weeks last month, our wild neighbors were quite active. The trail cameras recorded lots of interesting snippets of what happens in our woods that we would otherwise not see. Here are a few of the highlights…(enlarge Read more…
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Glimpses of Our Wild Neighbors
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. ~John Muir I keep telling myself I’ll do a blog about something other than our trail camera findings, but then I check the cameras and see more cool stuff. So, here’s another Read more…
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The Forest Unseen
Forests will always hold your secrets, for that’s what forests are for. ~Victoria Erickson We’ve been gone for a couple of weeks (more on that adventure in the next post) and the trail cameras were busy keeping up with the goings-on back home while we were away. Lots of the same sort of behaviors we Read more…
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Things You Might Not See
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. ~ Francis Pharcellus Church It had been over a week since I checked the three trail cameras, so I was anxious to see what had transpired in our patch of woods without us knowing. There has been a definite Read more…
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Trail Cam Delights
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. ~Boris Pasternak The heat of summer seems to have slowed the activity around the trail cameras in our woods, but sometimes, amid all the images of squirrels, raccoons, and wind blown leafy branches, there is is a jewel that really makes me appreciate the 24-hour Read more…
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A Rare Day
…a very secretive animal; you rarely see them. ~Paul Rezendes, in Tracking and the Art of Seeing Secretive indeed. I have been lucky over the years to have seen several (about twenty five or so), mainly at Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. A few others at Alligator River and Mattamuskeet, one in Chapel Hill at Read more…
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The Encounter
“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.” Hippocrates I take a break from the caterpillar posts to share a truly incredible moment with you. A friend and I traveled east over the weekend to search for caterpillars for the upcoming museum event I have mentioned in Read more…
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