The deer are thriving...and waiting for hunting season!

The driveway alarm was set off 4 times in rapid succession at 5 AM

I went up to pull the SD cards from the game camera to find the culprit was a deer.

Two and four legged visitors to the farm, as caught on the game cameras.

We've known for a long time that we have numerous coyotes living near the farm as some nights we can hear them yipping and howling along our river valley. Last spring we caught both a male and female on the game camera near where we bury our dead animals. We also caught both red and gray fox, a possum and numerous crows. We had seen, at one point, numerous turkey vultures in the trees, but we did not catch any on the game camera.

This past fall and winter we have caught numerous deer both on the cameras in the back pasture and at the top of the driveway. This past week I removed the cameras from out back and put them at the top of the driveway facing in opposite directions to the two up there. We have an obvious path from the back pasture that crosses our driveway and heads across to the neighbor's property. I have seen deer prints and a smaller canines prints in the snow, but they were out of range of the two cameras. Hopefully the new cameras will pick them up. 

In the meantime, I hope you will enjoy the animals we did catch on the cameras.

                                                                   Darn squirrel!!

                                                           I believe this is a Fisher.

                 As long as it leaves my cats and livestock alone, it is welcome to stay and to eat 

           all of the rodents that it wants! https://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/wildlife/profiles/fisher.html

                                                      Lady Ratter's house mate, Luna.

                                I am a little disturbed to catch this coyote at 1:40 in the afternoon.

                                               I can't believe this young deer is still alive.

                                                        The neighbor's barn cat. Lady Ratter

October four legged farm visitors

Coyotes, foxes, deer, bobcat and the neighbor's cat.

                                     It was a little unnerving to see this bobcat in broad daylight.

                                                             And an opossum too!!