Should I or Should't I

Got to my spot this morning and the sky opened up. That made the decision to leave my camera in the truck. This mornings hike was to check a number of trail cameras in north central MA. The mild temps had many critters on the move. The heavy rain and warm weather pretty much melted the ice on a few swamps I checked.

 Ducks, beavers, pileated woodpecker and kingfisher kept the swamp pond busy.
Trail cameras captured a few pics. The cover pic is a doe crossing a beaver dam and hears the camera.
Other tc;s captured a distant coyote and bobcat crossing on the thin ice during the cover of darkness.

Jim

Got an early start this morning. Loaded up a bunch of trail cameras and ran a long camera trap line in anticipation of catching a daytime bobcat picture on a trail camera. The sled worked out great and saved some wear and tear on my back.
Jim

Thank You To All That Attended

" Camera Trapping Massachusetts Bears "

What a nice turnout and many thanks !

Special thanks to my son Mike ( pictured) for sharing his bear knowledge.

A few weeks ago I had pulled in all my cameras to clean , change batteries to lithium and inventory all equipment. . I had a good year , only lost one small padlock.
Its time to make winter camera trap sets. I will setup a few cams in previous areas. I  currently have a new spot and will focus most of my efforts learning this area and see what nature has in store.

Jim

Camera Trapping Massachusetts Bears

Hope to meet some of you Thursday evening !

A six mile hike this morning checking camera traps was full on anticipation hoping to catch glimpse of a bobcat. I did see two scat piles. Should only be a matter of time before my trail cameras start catching them.

Jim

Save The Date

Its been a good year catching Massachusetts bears on trail cameras.Three of the bears standout.Come see why.
 Also, MassWildlife will share what happens when checking a winter den site.

Camera Trap Best Capture

The goal this year was to see if I could capture a bear crossing a beaver dam with a trail camera .Had a number of close opportunities but not what I was looking for. I was surprised to  catch the bear this week with heavy rain last week . Beaver dam water overflow was extremely high this weekend. See
Now for the next challenge. A bull moose !

Jim

Its been a good year for bear sighting  in North Central MA., eight so far. Trail camera's have captured six and was able to click my shutter on two others. The bear in the cover page was massive. Its estimated weight is 350 lbs.

The bear above was caught on a trail camera a week after getting the boar on the cover page. My guess is this bear may have caught the scent of other bears  in the area. That's why it is standing

Jim