Wildlife on the job

[jwilly3879]

Some otters on the kettle pond taken by the landowner.



 

A young deer in the marsh



 

[askhung]

Awww : )

[CCC4]

That's awesome Willy! We have river otters but I have yet to see one alive, I have been coming to this area since 1980 and still have yet to see one. I was packing up the mountain the other morning early and saw something bounding away from me across the opposite hollar, looked like a solid black coyote or solid back red fox (never seen or heard of one of them before)...either one was neat to see.

[Huskstihl]

I had a tractor coyote last fall.  He'd shadow me, and disappear when I got out of the cab

[JDeere]

 I didn't actually see it, but a trail camera where we were logging in Western Maine last winter got a picture of a wolf. The animal in the back is believed to be a coyote.



 

[jwilly3879]

The otters are pretty neat, last winter I could see where they had been travelling and ever chance they got the slid down the hills.

JD that's a pretty big wolf, they are supposed to be in my area but I haven't seen one. Coyotes are all over and we can hear them behind the house quite often.

[clww]

That's odd that a wolf would permit a coyote to be that close.

[ReggieT]

Yes...that is rather odd behavoiur...unless they have some type of "arrangement!"  :D :D

[CX3]

Id say more likely a male and female wolf.  I doubt a wolf would tolerate a yote that close. 

Cool pics of otters too.  I guess Id have to snap them too.  But my snap would be a conibear lol

[jwilly3879]

Probably others think the same but the property we are cutting is a designated wildlife refuge area. Still hard to keep people from hunting there but more people are now using it to view the critters that live there.

Earlier this year a Great Horned Owl and a pair of eagles were photographed by a neighbor.

[MUDDY]

 

[chain]

Where three or more otter are gathered, you will soon not have any fish!

[g_man]

I have never seen an otter around here but once in a while see some slide marks in the snow near the brook.

Last May I was looking for a place to put a tractor road into some fir and found this fawn. Have no idea how I spotted it.
I took the two work pictures from the same spot.



 



 

Cleaned out the tractor road in June



 

Started cutting in November



 

[pineywoods]

Where three or more otter are gathered, you will soon not have any fish!

You got that right. A pair moved into my catfish pond. They wiped out the catfish population. I tried everything, traps, guns, neighbor caught them crossing the road and got both of them with his truck.

[Bobus2003]

2 years ago had a couple mountain lions on our job, would see them walking around or spook them out while skidding. In the mornings I would find tracks and see where they were bedding down under the boom delimber.. figure cause it was a warm place.