Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: trail camera

  • Glimpses of Life in the Woods

    Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. ~John Muir There is so much we see when we spend time in nature, but having a few trail cameras set out shows how much we miss. Here are a few of the wildlife happenings our three cameras caught over the past couple of Read more…

  • Living in the Wet Woods

    Nana always said the rain was nature’s way of adding sparkle to the outdoors. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan Surely the woods are sparkling now after what seems like weeks of rain. We actually have had some occasional nice weather, but the past few days have been soakers. Our clay soils have added some slickness to our Read more…

  • Wildlife Neighbors

    There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. ~Linda Hogan I recently bought another trail camera and have been putting them out in our woods the past few weeks trying to document who shares our Read more…

  • Wood-hen in the hood

    The bird already possessed a common name; and it is a pity that Latham did not know it. In its native land it was, and still is, commonly called, the log-cock…and because of its cackling cry, “wood-hen,” “laughing woodpecker,”… ~in Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds, Arthur Cleveland Bent, 1939 My father called them Read more…