New TC Location Has Potential - Best Lifetime Deer Shed Find

 

It’s been a productive week in the Massachusetts woods ! Bear TC’s have been set in the new areas . I spent one morning scouting a  twelve-acre swamp that really didn’t show much potential  using Google Earth and OnX Satellite View. Was I in for a surprise? Approximately nine acres of this swamp are thick tangled bushes and swamp grass. Three acres on the backside are a camera trappers dream with two beaver dams and two active lodges.

Earlier in the week I found my first deer shed of 2025 and what a find ! My Best Find Ever !!!    

https://youtu.be/U4Ko5jC6f4c

Jim

Backside of new swamp.

This Was A First - Fisher Resting In Tree

 

It was a productive week making TC bear sets, I have the new areas finished and have made sets in prior year locations.

I enjoy hiking with a camera in hand as well as setting camera traps. Saturday morning a female fisher was seen sleeping high in a hemlock tree . It was overcast and dark in the clump of branches where she was resting. Watching patiently, it took about three hours before a sliver of sunlight reached the top of the tree. I was able to squeak out two halfway decent pictures, One with her sleeping and the other with a slight twinkle in her eye. No doubt this fisher had a den nearby with recently born kits.

This week more TC’s will be set out in hopes of capturing an elusive short-tail  weasel.

Jim