Tuesday, December 21, 2010

My last two trips afield have been as quiet as my first. Last Friday Emma and I hunted the Oregon Rd covers. Nice looking cover void of birds.


Perhaps the work of a bored logger making a nice chair for deer season???
Their teasing us :(.


Monday we headed due south close to the Mason-Dixon line to hunt some clearcuts that had the deer fences recently removed.













Not even any tracks here.





Swung by an old cemetery that I hadn't visited for a few years. Most of the stones are fading fast with many just small markers perhaps of infants.





Nancy Collins lived a remarkably long life in these unforgiving ridges.







At first I thought fox tracks but the way they traveled over quite a number of fallen logs made me think that they may have been made by a fisher, whose numbers are growing quickly in my area. Just what the grouse need another predator.












Why a bear would be out roaming around now I don't know , but they were just hours old. That's Emma's track on the right.














Emma and I are heading out again today, hoping that Diana the hunting goddess will eventually smile upon us.









2 comments:

LostintheUplands said...

I believe I was in the same neighborhood on Saturday, only in the cuts with fences.

no tracks, except for turkey.

Russ said...

Looks like a nice place....lots of wildlife! I hope you're enjoying the late season :)