Ideal Conditions Snowshoes - Shed Hunting

 

What a great week in the woods! I have been snowshoeing, checking trail cameras and searching for deer and moose sheds. Two things were found this week, the first were muscles that haven’t been used that much in years, and the second was a respectable moose shed. As the week went on the sore muscles eased and the time out snowshoeing increased. I have been searching for the other antler starting back where  the first shed  was found, then followed every moose track in the area  for long distances.

https://youtu.be/xktgQTTmkaE

What made this moose shed an interesting find was finding a shed and having a video of the  bull, and it appears the bull has moose hair on the brow tine. Doubtfully that hair has been there since the moose rut back in early fall. That hair could suggest bulls still spar aggressively until there antlers drop.

Jim

Lucky Trail Camera Catch

 

I have been busy snowshoeing the last couple of weeks. The conditions were ideal. Yesterday I snowshoed to my deepest trail camera set. As I came up on the set, there was a deep oval depression in the snow. A moose had bedded  a short distance from the trail camera. Talk about getting pumped ! When I opened the camera to check the SD card, the batteries were DEAD ! You got to be kidding me…. Thankfully, my pack had spare batteries. After powering the TC up , there were many videos. A  quick look showed a moose on the screen. With  temperatures near zero, further review would need to wait until I got home.

I could not be more pleased; there were 130 videos spanned over 3.5 hours, with a moose centered in front of the trail camera. You could not have staged it any better. And ……... It all took place during the snowstorm back on Jan 26^th.

Jim