Trailcam pics

[Turkey Creek]

He’s hungry and eating crickets and grasshoppers. Steak sometimes. Hotdogs other times. Just my guess.

I never thought of grasshoppers. I always figured there were plenty of mice to keep an owl full and there does not seem to be a shortage of rabbits and voles this year. The only thing is you would think that owl would land in varying spots or be seen in more photos, the camera is on a 10 minute interval during the last 2 hours of the day. Or maybe it flies down and grabs the grasshopper and says "Yea this thing still tastes like shit." then flies off to go eat a mouse.

 

[Telemark]

This owl has me puzzled. There has got to be some benefit to where it is setting. MULTIPLE though not every night, it is in a picture or 2 setting in this portion of the plot. Anybody have a guess or maybe there is an owl behaviorist amongst us who can scientifically enlighten us. Setting on the ground in general does not seem like common owl behavior in my book.View attachment 83247

My guess: slight opening in the foliage, and he's hitting prey on the bare ground where he can.

 

[West_Fork]

 

[Brian662]

 

[Turkey Creek]

This doe looks like she is still pregnant. I have a bunch of pictures of her and good Lord she has a belly on her. I swear last Fall into Winter I had a real small fawn running around. Way smaller than all the other fawns. I am starting to wonder if it came from this doe. She currently does not have a fawn with her ever. Will a doe cycle every month until she is bred going into Winter? Maybe this doe somehow got out of cycle the 1st year and having a really late fawn every year puts her in the same situation year after year.

 

[Feelslikefar.]

I swear last Fall into Winter I had a real small fawn running around.

You reminded me of a picture I posted this winter of a tiny deer, which reminded me of pics I took the other day. Cropped cell phone pics from the automobile.

Outside of Key Deer in Florida, this is the smallest deer I've ever seen with antlers. Tthis is at work, way too high deer numbers for the carrying capacity I guess, we're breeding tiny deer? 15 years ago you never saw deer there, now you can see herds of 20-40 of them. I wouldn't think it possible for them to adapt that quickly, it's got to take decades if not hundreds of years, no? Maybe not, because we got some tiny deer. Little bucks with comically large racks, you wonder how some of them don't fall over.

Anyway, for scale, here he is next to a very small, young doe.

 

[Telemark]

. I wouldn't think it possible for them to adapt that quickly, it's got to take decades if not hundreds of years, no? Maybe not, because we got some tiny deer. Little bucks with comically large racks, you wonder how some of them don't fall over.

Welcome to the world of epigenetics.

 

[Mortenson]

Safety in numbers.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Good Lord this one is a tank! He hasn’t gotten anything special for a rack, but he still has over a month before the rut to add to his body size. I thought this was the same deer I posted photos of before but thus one has a much larger body. Racks are very similar though. This might be my main target buck currently. Based solely on age and amount of Summer Sausage production.

 

[Bill]

Good Lord this one is a tank! He hasn’t gotten anything special for a rack, but he still has over a month before the rut to add to his body size. I thought this was the same deer I posted photos of before but thus one has a much larger body. Racks are very similar though. This might be my main target buck currently. Based solely on age and amount of Summer Sausage production. View attachment 83341

We had one like that. Called him Tony Bagadonuts. A year later we shortened it to Vito. My son finally got him. He didn’t have much of his front teeth left.

That’s a target at my place. Much rather hunt him than a 3 year old 12 point.

But he’s pretty smart.

 

[West_Fork]

 

[TenPoint]

 

[SwampCat]

 

[Turkey Creek]

Love the turkey! LOL

 

[TenPoint]

Love the turkey! LOL

I had a good laugh at that one.

 

[Brian662]

Did you ever encounter any of those nice ones you had on camera last summer/fall?

 

[TenPoint]

Did you ever encounter any of those nice ones you had on camera last summer/fall?

No. I didn’t shoot anything last year. I don’t recall seeing any of them either. And this year I don’t have much on camera so far.

 

[MadMadHoosier]

 

[Baker]

Nothing that stylish about this pic but there is a lesson to learn.3 yrs ago I found his shed and estimated him about 210. He dropped down about 20" the following two yrs.He's back this yr with double forked brows looking good at 8 yrs old

 

[356]

Not what I wanted to see--my wife thought "how cute."