Daily Deercam.

Armadillo foraging.


Doe getting suspicious.


Male coyote making the rounds.


Very dry out in the woods. Awful range conditions though there is water running in the creek available. Not much on the cams as only two are working. Others are done.
So dry the dogwoods are dying on the hilltops.

Daily Deercam

Wandering hog. Nothing but the mere hint of the scent of corn on the site, but he came back twice.


Pregnant-with-twins mature doe. I'm sure she can handle almost anything.


Hogging.


Bigfoot!


Coyote in the daytime.

Warm woods and some really excited ticks. You would think the snow would have set them back but the last few years have been the tick-iest I can remember.

Bigfoot Panic!

I see it all the time.

Moved a cam over to a new scrape. Still got a Moultrie that has quit flashing, just gives me a black file. Not good, because lots of things happen at night, especially movement by big bucks. I guess its a clunker, though it was the newest cam.

Daily Deercams.

Two cams running with fresh batts and cards. Brought in one card that showed zero movies or photos....I thought the cam reader showed 300 plus. Should start showing some results soon. The pasture wasn't shredded this year. Really growing up. Conditions change all the time.
Tracks around but no rubs or scrapes obvious. Shouldn't be long as the days shorten and the air turns cooler. One camera dead in the flood when the damn broke.

Daily Deer Cam

Six deer in this file.

I think this is a little nubbin buck who has popped his nubbins. He's got his foot in the scrape.

Two does.

More does.

Six deer in this photo. Some of them might be last years yearling fawns.

Pumping a little old buck scent on the scrape.

Lost in the excitement over the DEAD COW CAM, I did a deercam sweep. My rechargeable lanterns batts had lost their zip so I replaced them today. (Academy, 8.99) Ought to run for a month now. One frame on the across the creek cam, then dead old battery. (What do you do with old batts again? mail them to Al Gore?) 500 files of crows, coons, squirrels and birds at the close cam. I moved it over to cover the brahma carcass. The last cam, a very new Moultrie, had just moved to cover a new scrape about 20 yards from the scrape in the cedars on the hill across the creek. It had 15 files of as many as four deer. I sprayed it, (the scrape, not the cam) down with buck scent.

Creek crossing going to be improved with the addition of a big rock. Walked the rock another 60 yards closer.

Rubbermaboots.

Must have been a cool morning.

Little buck wandering around.

Scuffed up. The little ones are still sparring.

Little late to get freaked out by the blinking red light...

Sparring. Closed eye.

1 1/2 year old probably.

The little buck herd. They were all in this series, just never in front of the camera at the same time.

Left my million year old but still good rubber boots in Box Elder where we were hunting. I wore them when chopping deer. Now I'm stuck. If I buy a new pair, I've got two pairs, only one of which will be worn. Plus I like these old ones. The tread is gone and they don't leave any footprints.

Hardly make it across the creek in regular boots. The creek gods have to be in a good mood.

Little buck herd crossed and tracks look like 1000 deer slithering through the mud.

Daily Deercam

Only thing from across the creek.

Might be Bubba Buck.

Nice genetics. Really solid body young deer.

Nice Buck seen for the first time. Calendar pose. 2 1/2 or 3 1/2. Wide enough to shoot but not a trophy. This guy would be a pass for me this year.

Working the branch.

Bubba Buck back for the first time.

Bubba.

Bubba. Wide, but not much mass or tine length.

Bubba is young 2 1/2 probably.

Resident coyote.

I need another cam. Three isn't enough when one of them is getting blinky. Sat in the tree and trimmed a few branches. Need to cut a couple more with pole saw so I can see a certain part of the tree line. Grass high. Two big scrapes out in the middle of the field under an Oak. Two scrapes with cams don't have the same bucks, though they are only 120 yards apart. Need a cam on the mid-field scrapes. They are big and deep. Deer probably feel well covered in the tall grass.

Four frames of nothing across the creek. That cam still says it's SD card is locked, but it did get some images. Nice Coyote butt shot.

Big Bucks: no cam

 Here's a one frame record of a nice buck from last year.  Reminds me of Big Ten, who grew up being photographed and now won't step in front of a camera.

  Notice he has a dropped tine on the right side toward the cam.

  Saw him running from the road once.  Other than that and this file: Never.

  Even with cams you don't see them all, especially the big smart ones.