This is my May column for Maine Woodland Owners. Canada lynx have spread out to our area and are now on our road. Eventually we’ll see one one on the game cameras. “Secretive forest-dwelling cat.” U. S. Fish & Wildlife describes the Canada lynx as a secretive cat. I second…
Familiar Faces – Deer Family Familiar faces (I think) in the food plot this week. The whitetail deer have returned from their winter feeding out near Grand Lake Stream. I believe this is the doe who had her yearling buck and a new fawn with her last year. They look…
I enjoy watching and feeding the Bald eagles more than ice fishing. Oh I like ice fishing well enough, but watching the eagles is the best. He was nearby when we arrived, circled over head, and then landed in a tree to wait. Apparently quite hungry, he landed on the…
This is someone’s commute every morning and again at night. It’s dark when they drive in, dark when they drive out. For the truck drivers, they make this trip several times a day when they take logs to a mill. Imagine this being your daily drive. Add streams and marshes, wildlife, and trucks coming toward you. CB radios are the main method of communication. …
This is a column I wrote for Maine Woodland Owners. My column is called Focus On Wildlife. I get to write about the animals I am so very fortunate to spend time with, a few I’ve never seen, and one I didn’t know exists until I was looking for a…
Do you remember the motherless fawn? It arrived alone one day in mid-November, spent time with a buck after the rut ended, and left with a flood of deer on their way to their winter feeding grounds. I hoped she would leave with the others. With coyotes and bobcats in…
Wildlife stories galore. I have three updates from the homestead and photos away from the homestead and I don’t know where to start. I’ll start here on the homestead. hmm…how about cute? Let’s go with cute first. Remember Slinky? Another ermine, called a stoat as well as short-tailed weasel when…
The deer are back! Even before the food plot we had deer in April. I thought they returned a couple of weeks ago because I noticed damage to the apple trees. Looking at the damage up close, I realized it was old, probably January before they left for their winter…
Wild Black Ducks I looked out the window this morning to see if the deer might be in the food plot and spotted a pair of wild black ducks. It’s not unusual to have wild ducks here this time of year. There isn’t any open water for them other than…
Sunrise 6:16 am, sunset 5:11 pm. Days are noticeably longer, something that makes me smile even when it’s overcast. It isn’t pitch black, but close, when I wake. These longer days make me feel like we just might survive another winter. It’s coyote mating season. On the move with a…