"Invasive Acres" My little hill top micro plot.

[Feelslikefar.]

Chicken and egg.



We have a lot of Fisher. I guess because we have a lot of porcupine.
Why do we have a lot of porcupine? Can't be because there's no predators, there's a lot of Fisher. In my lifetime they're both pretty new for the area, but have really exploded in recent years. They're neat to see, but I'd rather we had neither. Porcupines do some damage to the cabin, shed. Fisher, I'd assume they're a terror on just about all small game. I've had them come in to calls while turkey hunting.

 

[Telemark]

Chicken and egg.

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We have a lot of Fisher. I guess because we have a lot of porcupine.
Why do we have a lot of porcupine? Can't be because there's no predators, there's a lot of Fisher. In my lifetime they're both pretty new for the area, but have really exploded in recent years. They're neat to see, but I'd rather we had neither. Porcupines do some damage to the cabin, shed. Fisher, I'd assume they're a terror on just about all small game. I've had them come in to calls while turkey hunting.

We has problems with porcupines chewing on plywood and OSB. You can put up wire mesh to keep them off the cabin while you are away. You can also make a salt stump a hundred yards away to keep them focused on that for their salt needs.

I would start trapping fishers. Nice pelts.

 

[Feelslikefar.]

You can also make a salt stump a hundred yards away to keep them focused on that for their salt needs.

I was thinking about doing that for a couple reasons. One I was thinking of making "bait" with saturated saltwood. Leaving stuff in a wired open HVH trap when I'm not around, but setting it when I am. Then I thought "Could I use the porcupines to kill a tree?" Put salt all over a tree trunk to let the girdle and kill it? Granted that would be the slowest, least efficient way to kill a tree, but it was more as a "I wonder if it would work?" :)

Fisher trapping season is only 5 days. It would never work out for me. But I have thought about reaching out and giving access to a local trapper looking for a good spot.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Porkies are bad news for wood items - cabins, tree stands, porches, sheds, outhouses, etc. Salt is candy to a porky. I've used salted stumps, and they draw porkies readily.

 

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Foggy... the big thaw has begun.

 

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It's an amazing nearly overnight change. False spring and the world wakes up. I go from getting 3-4 pictures a month, to needing to have the cameras turn off at night because it's taking way too many pictures.

I guess there's still plenty of clover and what not now that the snow if gone. I finally had to grab my phone last night and check it because I thought something was malfunctioning, it just kept alerting for three hours. Can't shut my phone off, so I guess I need to change the alert to something I can sleep through.



Lots of tree limbs down, oh boy.

 

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It's an amazing nearly overnight change. False spring and the world wakes up. I go from getting 3-4 pictures a month, to needing to have the cameras turn off at night because it's taking way too many pictures.

I guess there's still plenty of clover and what not now that the snow if gone. I finally had to grab my phone and check it because I thought something was malfunctioning, it just kept alerting for three hours. Can't shut my phone off, so I guess I need to change the alert to something I can sleep through.

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Lots of tree limbs down, oh boy.

Just turn the audible and vibration notifications off. You'll still get the alerts, but it won't make any noise. I have that setting for everything. I will look at my phone when I want to, and I don't want it bothering me in the mean time.

 

[Feelslikefar.]

Doesn't seem like I can do that for just the cam ap. I can only mute all general notifications, which I can't do. (a 24/7 work thing)

More importantly, the reason I use the work timer, I don't need to burn up battery life and monthly plan space taking hundreds of pictures of does eating. lol

 

[Telemark]

Can you turn off alerts entirely for that app?

 

[Feelslikefar.]

Oof, the snow was hiding a lot! What a disaster. lol

 

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Photos vs videos. Cellphone vs computer.

I got these photos this morning on the Ap. I kept looking at them wondering what the heck the fox was doing there 25 seconds?




So I requested video.

Well that's what, a magic trick! Pretty sneaky you two, ya fooled me. Video tells the story photos don't.




Of course I few minutes later I looked at the pics on my computer, one from an adjacent camera. Right there stupid! If you'd put your glasses on when looking at your phone, the answer was right there in front of you. That's not a stump stupid, it's another fox.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Guessing you may have some baby grays this spring. Maybe a mated pair? Thanks for the pics & vid. Good stuff.

 

[Telemark]

I think grey foxes are neat. We had red foxes where I grew up until coyotes arrived. Then I found a few pieces of red foxes and never saw one there again.

In Norway we have some neat color morphs of red foxes. I never hunted them, but apparently they're a big problem here, so maybe I will.

 

[Feelslikefar.]

I see red and gray fox. And coyotes. With the three of them, fisher and racoons it's a wonder there's any small game or game birds.

 

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^ Did I mention coyotes? lol