Arquivos de periódicos de novembro 2015

01 de novembro de 2015

Getting a Handle on Lichens

I needed a place to stick this link, which, will likely help me immensely as I learn more about area lichens:

http://www.sharnoffphotos.com/lichens/lichens_home_index.html

Posted on 01 de novembro de 2015, 06:22 AM by bjoelle bjoelle | 1 comentário | Deixar um comentário

09 de novembro de 2015

A little drink of water

We got some rain this morning! It wasn't much but the clouds suggest a little more this evening. I hope so! On my walks the past two days the autumn colors have been bright and beautiful. The temperature is notably cooler and the wind is coming up. I set up the wildlife camera again after finding a fresh trail, and set it low to capture thirty second video - hopefully we'll see something fun. I also found a few good sit spots that might be successful in spotting birds and insects. I'm looking forward to getting this project started off right.

Posted on 09 de novembro de 2015, 01:04 AM by bjoelle bjoelle | 0 comentários | Deixar um comentário

18 de novembro de 2015

A special spot along the Creek

Not for the faint of heart maybe, I think I've discovered a wildlife hub in the creek bed, just north of River Road and the Hobson Creek Bridge. There's an old craggy apple tree bending over the creek, this year just loaded with juicy apples, and yet all around the tree are steep banks, covered in Himalayan blackberry with no clear escape routes. This year I noticed several kill spots all in the same stretch and it finally hit me - through the years that is where I always have found kills sites. So I wondered, do we have a smart predator down there waiting for unsuspecting wildlife to visit the apple tree and then Bam! So this would be the ultimate spot to observe. If nothing else, lots of potential predator/prey action.

Posted on 18 de novembro de 2015, 09:31 PM by bjoelle bjoelle | 0 comentários | Deixar um comentário

23 de novembro de 2015

Jackpot!

The wildlife camera in the 'special spot' returned some interesting finds! There isn't a good place to secure the camera, so I stuck it on a ledge in the bank. When I came back to get it I immediately saw that the camera had been knocked over, covered in dirt and the strap was laying over the front of it. Hmm... Sure enough the videos revealed that it lasted less than a day before at least five animals came to mess with it. They knocked it over then started playing with it. It was hard to ID anything because the critters walked ON the camera rather than looking directly at it. But amongst the flashes of fur, tails, eyes etc. I could see that one night it was a large-ish rodent (I'm thinking curious woodrat), another night a raccoon (definitely saw the striped tail) then what I think was a cat, because of the way its eyes looked and the movement of the body and it stretched and walked slowly over the up-facing lens. It seems like this is a good spot, so now I need to find a better way to secure the camera!

Posted on 23 de novembro de 2015, 06:45 PM by bjoelle bjoelle | 1 comentário | Deixar um comentário