Tag: trail camera
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Opossum Afterlife
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. ~Lao Tzu One day earlier this month I discovered a recently deceased Virginia Opossum out by one of the wood piles. No idea what might have happened to it though it was not long after some severely cold weather. I decided to 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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Critter Condo
Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree! ~Mehmet Murat Ildan Just beyond our deer fence is a huge old Tulip Poplar with a split at the base forming a hollow that stretches up 20 feet or so. This is Read more…
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A New Year, and New Happenings in the Woods
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. ~Vernon Howard The first days of the new year have brought a few more surprises and lessons from the trail cameras scattered in our woods. Several cameras have remained in one spot for many months because they tend to record Read more…
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Wrapping It Up In Our Woods
Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories. ~Munia Khan Our woods offer a lot of things to us – a quiet soundscape, a canopy of huge trees that help cool our landscape in summer, majestic gray forms that stretch to the winter sky, and a source of nourishment and shelter for the countless Read more…
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Woods Watching
I’m always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. ~ Gunter Grass Things have slowed a bit on the trail cameras out back, but we still get some nice surprises from time to time. Here are Read more…
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Camera Captures
These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost The trail cameras continue to capture moments in the lives of our woodland neighbors. Here are a some clips from the past couple of months to Read more…
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Oh Deer
Everything pales in comparison to deer. ~Bill Vaughan After the ubiquitous squirrels, deer have been the mainstay of the triggers on our three trail cameras. It was a busy fall with deer frequently visiting the vicinity of some oak trees as they searched for scarce acorns. Here are a few other clips showing some behaviors 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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