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Posting a true bucket list trail camera capture today. This one shares the prehistoric sounds of a wild male alligator bellowing his mating call along the edge of a pond I share with two neighbors. With modern alligators existing much in the same form for the past 8 million years and with...

Video speaks to making lemonade when life gives you lemons. Just over a year ago Hurricane Idalia knocked down multiple trees on my place, with one tree downed along a game trail where I've had cameras placed for over a decade. I then had over 100 more trees downed by a tornado in May this...

Haven't made many shares this year due to hit after hit (loss of two family members to cancer, business flooding, and most recently a tornado hit)... but blessedly did manage to take our first (and maybe only) family vacation of the year. Appreciating the forum has more members from up north...

Crazy tough year has limited my time on the forum, with the loss of two close family members to cancer earlier in the spring only six days apart. Video I'm sharing today highlights another hit that's strongly impacted me for almost two months now... stick to the end and you'll see what one of...

I appreciate that with this forum there are some really smart folks using both prescribed burns to improved habitat as well as having experimented with biochar to varying degrees. Over the past decade, I've become a BIG fan of using biochar with potted plants, small garden spots, with fruit...

Definitely want SOUND UP for this one... a loud and lonely bobcat looking for love while on the prowl around our pond edge. The spot had been silently visited by a female just 3 or 4 hours earlier. 👍

Thought some forum members might enjoy this recent trail camera capture of a bobcat chasing a mature whitetail buck in North Florida, with decent audio of the buck sharing two warning calls. As for the bobcat, loved tracking its changes in the angle of attack depending on the direction the deer...

Recently discovered that a loquat tree I successfully grafted (subtropical fruiting tree I've discussed in another thread) had the trunk split in half, though at least for the moment the tree is still very much alive amd that's after months of the tree being split (suspect split in one of our...

Been running cameras on my place for 10 years now and each year I get several Florida black bear hits... but somehow always have been lucky with bears not tearing up my cameras. Kind of shocked when I was looking at a recent camera card pull and saw THIS. Actually feel I owe the bear thanks...

Had this thought after taking a pic of one of my chestnut trees this week... those who know, know! 😂

Splitting this thread out of the "It's Spring!" post where questions popped up about the cameras I use to take photos/videos of wildlife at long distances using two different cameras, a Canon SX60 (max optical zoom of 65x) costing approximately $600 and a Nikon P1000 (max optical zoom of 125x)...

On a "you might be a habitat guy" note, I often taste small portions of acorns and even leaves to test the flavor.. and... MAN, are red oak tender leaves SWEET. I'm talking saccharine sweet immediately after budding. Plucked a single leaf off a sprout out of curiosity during a walk in town...

Local electric company is trimming trees / tree limbs along power lines that run along the front of my property. Talked to the crew chief doing the work and asked if it would be any help for him to dump truckloads of chips in a big pile on my place and he said he was more than happy to do so...

The older I get, the more the memory cells are becoming a bit suspect so I'm using this thread to help me clearly remember the 2022-2023 season... only one to date where I've bent my general rule of only harvesting 2 bucks off my land, instead shooting 3. First two of the season were the only...

Guess I could have posted this in the mask thread, but felt it too important to be buried in the weeds on a thread already quite long. Data is just too compelling not to share. The Florida Surgeon General just released Florida's VAERS (adverse event) data. He started with a chart that showed...

Start by sharing that data analysis has been a big part of my 30+ year career... and being honest, as with MANY data studies involving small data sample sets evident patterns have to be taken with a grain of salt and more questions are typically generated than can be answered... With the above...

Few members might recall that some of my past compilation videos have included clips of a sow bear suffering from both a lame front foot and a rather sizable abdominal hernia. I don't get videos of her often, so each year I find myself wondering if she's still alive. Well, as of August 2022...

Few forum members may remember my "buried gut pile" share where it took visits over a 16-day period for the pile to be cleaned. Well, this video likely marks the closing chapter of recent hog trapping efforts. With the government actually providing assistance with trapping efforts, we've...

Day late sharing to the forum, but did post on YouTube yesterday! Definitely a "maternal" moment that speaks to the burdens Moms face.

Sure the answer varies a bit, but I was surprised by the answer I got... especially with North FL daytime temps hitting the mid-70s to 80s during the time period I captured the video. Won't ramble too much on the subject, as the intro portion of the video tells the tale. I'll just add three...