We caught a picture of this buck with a beautiful and growing rack of antlers on our trail camera last week.
Also, the camera picked up a couple of shots of a good-sized black bear lumbering along back by our wood pile of logs to be worked up. It was our first sighting of a bear this summer. Unfortunately (darn), we neglected to save those pictures. (Double darn.)
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That IS a beautiful buck, and a very pretty picture of him. Now I want to see the bear!
That's a big fellow! Discovered 4 big bear poops yesterday under one of our favourite apple trees, and the apples are not ripe enough yet. The berry crop was abysmal, and very few tree nuts this year, so expect we are in for it....
Michelle - Yeah, I'm really kicking myself for not saving at least one of the big ol' bear!
Rosalea - The word around here is that our berry crop was plentiful so we shouldn't be plagued by "nuisance" bears as are we are many years. But your bears could make a mess of your apple trees if they're hungry. How will you protect them? The trees, I mean, not the bears.
Great shot! May I ask what kind of trail cam you have? Dan's been through three, but they never seem to last long before malfunctioning.
Mama Pea: We figure these old trees have survived and thrived, living all these years with bears, although they show scars. Not much we can do, and there is lots of fruit for both us and the bears. One was munching on crab-apples below and out a bit from the bedroom window last night, the sound awakening us. Hubby shone a flashlight on him, and I heard the muted 'ka-thud, ka-thud, ka-thud' as it ran away. "This to will pass". Just hope they don't get a taste for tomatoes and pumpkins and cucs and peppers and beans.....!!! They are hunted in this area, so are wary of humans and not a 'nuisance' in that sense.
Hi, Leigh - Mama Pea's daughter here. The trail camera this shot was taken on is the following (tried to make a link in addition to the Amazon description). We're so happy with it that I bought one for myself that I use for both video and still shots (and am very happy with both). (Relatively) cheap & good!
GardePro A3 Trail Camera 24MP 1080P, H.264 HD Video, Clear 100ft No Glow Infrared Night Vision, 0.1s Trigger Speed, 82ft Motion Detection, Waterproof (Camera)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YTRR837/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Leigh - Techie daughter was much better (and faster) at getting the exact info spelled out to you re the trail cam than I would have been. Glad to share this with you. :o)
Rosalea - So many apple trees that are not fenced in (or the bears fenced out) are literally torn apart by bears in our area so that's why I wondered about yours. We, too, have a bear season for hunting them but in our encounters, they don't seem to be too concerned with humans banging pots and such to scare them away. A couple of years ago, a woman went out into her garage one night which had been left with the garage door open. She was one lucky gal in that she encountered a bear snuffling around looking for food, I suppose. She was actually embraced by the bear (said his odor was AWFUL) but managed to escape with only several deep scratches. Can you imagine?? We had one tear through the plywood side of a shed to get at feed stored in there. They are not an animal you want to fool with, for sure.
Oh what a gorgeous animal! It's so nice that they feel peaceful enough to come by that close I know some Wildlife really avoid anything that smells like human beings
Nancy - The deer are quite prevalent in our area and we catch lots of pictures of them on our trail camera all the time. Lately we've also seen a few shots of skunks (!) and sincerely wish they really would avoid anything that smells like human beings!
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