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With below freezing temperatures in Massachusetts this week, beaver
ponds have finally frozen over. January bobcat activity is off to a SLOW start.
The bobcat pic above is a video grab. It would have been an impressive pic had
it been one hour later. The tracks on the lodge belong to a coyote. Surprisingly,
the pictured bobcat had no interest in the lodge. Earlier in the week beavers
were adding mud to the lodge during the snowstorm.
With the few inches of snow central MA received this week, it made for
ideal tracking conditions. My hope was to locate a fisher track in the fluffy snow.
Fortunately, that happened, and I spent the last mornings tracking one fisher
and learning its behavior. The total trail length was three miles zig zagging
through the woods. The trail never ventured more than a mile and a half from
the starting point. I did locate two active scent posts and set up trail
cameras on them. With fisher mating season beginning soon, hopefully the fisher
use those scent posts. While tracking this morning, I did locate five moose
beds. After seeing them I had hopes of coming across a moose shed. No such
luck !!
https://youtu.be/njhVtebmzi4 video added 1/20/24
Jim
