Critter Activity Picking Up

 

This camera trap location in Massachusetts has been extremely slow the past several months. I was actually going to pull several of the trail cameras this morning until I saw the increased activity and a very elusive catch. You’ll need to watch to the end. Bushnell and Browning cameras used. I did lighten up the Bushnell video. Camera traps are in close proximity of each other.

Jim

Bears Follow The Food

 

Bear activity has slowed considerably along my camera trap line. Bears follow the food!  Acorns, fruits hickory nuts are just a few of the bear foods that are ripening now  Several trail cameras have captured night time movement of Bull Moose in rut. I’m hoping an impressive bull moves by a camera in the daylight. One camera did video a new sow with three yearlings that I haven’t seen before. That’s now seven different sows with a total of twenty cubs that have been videoed in 2022.

Jim

Bobcat Kittens

 

This is a change from bears and moose! One of my camera traps caught glimpse of these two bobcat kittens a few weeks back. Unfortunately it was early dawn and you could barely see them. I was hoping they would pass by another camera trap. The bank beaver lodge the kittens are standing on is a under construction by the beavers. This lodge was built several years back. A year after being built some animal totally ruined the lodge by digging gaping holes into it. I assumed a bear did the damage. Not sure why, this summer beavers decided to repair the damage, I thought it would be an interesting place to set a trail camera.

Jim.

Moose Are In Rut - Massachusetts

 

A lot of scouting and a lot more luck helped placed this Bushnell Aggressor in the right location to catch moose activity during the 2022 Massachusetts rut. Turn the volume up. Appears to be three different bulls? The videos are all from the same trail camera. Of course …. It’s the oldest one I have and records in AVI. Hopefully one of those bulls walks by the TC during the day

Jim

 

Back from camping!

I checked most of my trail cameras this week seeing little to no bear activity until his mornings check. This location had a sow with four cubs, sow with three cubs and a single bear passing through the area over the last three weeks. It was nice to see the sow with the four cubs. She has been seen on three different camera traps sets covering several miles. Not that that’s a big area for a bear, but it helps me in plotting here home range.

Massachusetts Moose are beginning to rut. This means the bulls will be on the move. I’ve made a number of sets hoping to catch a swamp side bull during the day.

Jim

Family of Four Bears

 

The majority of my trail cameras have been pretty quiet the last several weeks, typically mid-August tends to slow down. Not sure why. September usually has much more activity.

I did move one of my older cameras about three weeks ago to the northern edge of my camera trapping area, hoping to capture a video of a collared sow with three cubs. Surprising, a second sow with four COY triggered the camera... My TC’s captured this family of four about two miles from this location several days earlier.

I’m heading out camping and will have limited  access to or no WIFI. It may be a few weeks before the next update

Jim

Got Lucky !

 

Persistence Pays Off.

Late May my camera traps caught glimpse of this cow and her new calf. The camera traps were a great tool in validating a cow had offspring in my camera trapping area.  Thought went into how creative a camera set could be made in effort to capture a quality video. Four sets were made in a river, thought was put into the back drop and the position of the sun... This set was on a metal fence post that I packed in and secured near a downed tree in the river.  Believe me when I tell you, there were many SD card checks with empty cards .It took approximately ten weeks to capture these video I couldn’t be more pleased !

Jim