Woodpecker Rescue

It's not uncommon to have birds get trapped in the upper floor of our barn then they think they can fly out a closed window. Unlike most of the birds that I rescue, this was a young woodpecker with a sharp beak and thought my thumb was a tree branch. I'll wear gloves next time.

Bobcat

Checked some of the game cameras at our West Hill property and got these photos of a Bobcat.

Fall Hunting Season

The Fall hunting season will soon be here.

Free Range Turkeys

The local flocks of wild turkeys are so familiar with my pickup truck and daily wildlife drives that the turkeys don't stop feeding when I drive by. It's starting to feel like a free range turkey farm.

Sunset

After several days of cloudy/rainy weather the sky started to clear in the evening yesterday. This rain cloud, to the north, was still dumping rain at sunset.

Clearing sky to the west provided this sunset.

West Hill Bears

You never know what you'll find on a game camera. We had some game cameras at our West Hill property since late March and checked a couple of the memory cards today.

Along with the usual deer and turkey photos was this cinnamon bear (Ursus americanus cinnamomum)

Cinnamon bears are a subspecies of the black bear.

Two bears fighting in front of the game camera. The bears were so close to the camera that most of the photos were close-up photos of fur. June is the mating season for bears and these two may have been fighting over territory.