Tracking - Time For TC's Again

 

I thought the cover picture was interesting with the three does all looking at the trail camera.

The primary deer hunting season ends next Saturday. That means the following week I can start setting out trail cameras again. I’m looking forward to that !

In the last week or so we have had two nights with snow in central MA. The first storm was only supposed to drop a few inches. We received seven inches of heavy wet snow . After the storm ended it turned windy, which put the squash on tracking. I tried to tracking seeing a porcupine track and a few deer tracks. Last night we got a dusting to an inch which made for decent tracking conditions. This morning, I was searching for tracks at first light and  hoping to find a fisher or bobcat track. The snow started around 3:00 AM which didn’t leave much time before daylight for critters to leave any sign. I had no problem finding a coyote track, so I followed that for a while. Nothing out of the ordinary  came with that track, it wandered through a hemlock grove checking around downed trees. I also saw a porcupine run along with deer tracks .It was a  beautiful morning to be out bushwhacking ,but uneventful tracking.

Jim