Some otters on the kettle pond taken by the landowner.
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A young deer in the marsh
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Awww : )
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.
I had a tractor coyote last fall. He'd shadow me, and disappear when I got out of the cab
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.
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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.
That's odd that a wolf would permit a coyote to be that close.
Yes...that is rather odd behavoiur...unless they have some type of "arrangement!" :D :D
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
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.
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Where three or more otter are gathered, you will soon not have any fish!
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.
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Cleaned out the tractor road in June
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Started cutting in November
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Quote from: chain on January 03, 2014, 06:47:01 AM
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.
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.