A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than that of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact. - Aldo Leopold

Sunday, July 22, 2012

More Water Dish Visitors

I was reviewing all the game camera photos that we've taken. We first put the camera up in January of this year. It's set up along a dirt road and pointing at one of our wildlife rainwater collectors.

I found some interesting ones that were missed earlier.

This one is from January 15th, when we were experiencing a robin invasion. I think they were on their way south. The camera took many photos like this. I can count 7 and maybe 8 in the photo. Do you see the 8th one?

The next photo is from February 22nd and it's of a possum. I know possums are common but we hardly ever see them and the game camera has only caught this one.

The last photo is fairly recent, from June 23rd. It shows a young white-tailed deer buck nuzzling a fawn. You can see the velvet on the buck's antlers. The fawn's are usually with their mothers and I've never seen one with a buck. The bucks are usually solitary or in a group of 2 or 3. The does and fawns are usually together in larger herds.


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