Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Once upon a day

I was gone a fortnight and came home from work (actually I work from home..but...)  and saw that the front door was unlocked and slightly open. I wondered... what the hell...did someone break in... is someone here? 

Living in a cabin in the woods (in reality a house on Hwy 95... but go with it...)  you never know what kind of creature may stop by looking to find refuge and shelter.  I tentatively walk through the door, looking around.  I look for snowy footprints, but see none.  I walk around the corner and look in the kitchen... no ramsacking going on here.  Perhaps it was Old Mr. Winter blowing over the threshold just to take a peak around?  I decide to walk down the hall to check out the rest of the house.   ... I open the bedroom door to see what I can see.... 

OMG!  And there it is!  Little miss wolf, came in from the wild  - happened upon a nice warm cabin after a day of running in the snowy woods. 
"Oh my, what a warm little place, out of the wind"
"Oh my, what a soft little bed to rest my weary toes" 
"Oh my, what a fluffy little pillow to place my sleepy head"
"I must say, I'm thinking this place is just right!"
"Oh my......my domestication may be insight"


And here is a sight from across the pond.  Taken through a spotting scope...not too bad.  Where Dodge Creek comes into McArthur lake, it doesn't always freeze and the bald eagles love to take baths.  there were 5 of them, 3 adults, 2 juvies. Always fun to watch them.


Sunday, June 10, 2012

Wildlife Trail Cam

I have several trail cams out on the WMA and another biologist has some up the moutains a bit near the WMA.  On the WMA, we've had black bear and grizzly bears, mountain lion, bobcat, coyotes, moose, elk, white-tailed and mule deer, a skunk, turkeys, hunters, dogs, etc, etc.  Pretty cool to see all these animals traveling the same trail!  The photos can get pretty comical when they start sniffing the camera.  One photo has a deer in the foreground looking suprised at seeing an elk in the bushes behind it.. and the elk is suprised too. 

Here's an album of some of the photos.

https://picasaweb.google.com/colleentrese/WildlifeTrailCamsOnWMA?authkey=Gv1sRgCO7qw7a32u3r9wE#


https://picasaweb.google.com/colleentrese/WildlifeTrailCamOffWMA?authkey=Gv1sRgCNzy2bn_qo3m5gE#