What Wildlife Do You See, While in the Woods?

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windthrown said:
...I have cottontail rabbits here, and my cat hunts and eats them, along with moles, voles, rats, mice, and shrews... He is a huge 26 pound cat though. My cat trees any raccoons that venture near here.
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Mind if I ask what breed of feline you got there?
PM, please sir.
 
I don't see much during the day except for groundhogs and squirrels. Night is a different story, that's when I see foxes, coons, and the occasional possum. Also got a bobcat or two, but so far I can only hear them. They make a crazy screaming sound. When I try to track down the sound, they run off before I can get a spotlight on them. The most memorable critter visitor was a bear that came through once a long time ago. He'd wandered out of his domain in the smokies. The coons can be a problem if you get too many of them. I trap and relocate them, I think it's illegal but I just don't have it in me to kill one when I'm face to face.
 
hunting by boat down the Teslin River. I had camped on the riverbank for the night and found fresh moose tracks leading up a mountain on the east side of the river.

I followed those tracks, up and up and up till I got past the tree-line and saw a huge moose out in the open. Bang, bang, down it went and then I realized my mistake: how was I going to get the meat down to my boat? It turned dark up there on the mountain and I could feel big snowflakes hitting my face like cold kisses. Then a thick fog rolled up the sidehill from the river below.

So there I was in the dark, fogged in and vibrating from the cold. Rather than freeze to death waiting for daylight, here's what I did: I sliced the belly open and rolled the guts out of that old moose; then I crawled inside for the night. Nice and warm. Moist, too.

I was dreaming about my mother when I felt something tugging at the moose. I opened the belly flap just a bit and peeked outside. A pack of a dozen or more wolves surrounded me, looking like they were about to eat the moose and me with it. But then I realized: we were moving! Those wolves had that moose on the drag!

From inside the moose's belly, I caught hold of the tailbone with one hand and the Adam's apple with the other and found out I could steer that thing. You know, like using the rudder on your boat.

With the wolves dragging it at full gallop, I steered that moose right down to my boat. Then I jumped out and shot one of the wolves and the rest scattered in all directions.

I floated downriver till I got to Carmacks where I had left my truck. In the Carmacks Hotel I sold the wolf-hide to a German tourist. Then I tossed the meat into old Dodgy and drove home.

Windy Farr of Dawson had a similar experience some years ago so I guess it can happen to anybody. If you find yourself steering a moose, don't forget how to grab the tailbone and neckbone from the inside, and you'll be home with the meat in no time at all.
Sam Holoway.
 
Gypo Logger said:
hunting by boat down the Teslin River. I had camped on the riverbank for the night and found fresh moose tracks leading up a mountain on the east side of the river.

I followed those tracks, up and up and up till I got past the tree-line and saw a huge moose out in the open. Bang, bang, down it went and then I realized my mistake: how was I going to get the meat down to my boat? It turned dark up there on the mountain and I could feel big snowflakes hitting my face like cold kisses. Then a thick fog rolled up the sidehill from the river below.

So there I was in the dark, fogged in and vibrating from the cold. Rather than freeze to death waiting for daylight, here's what I did: I sliced the belly open and rolled the guts out of that old moose; then I crawled inside for the night. Nice and warm. Moist, too.

I was dreaming about my mother when I felt something tugging at the moose. I opened the belly flap just a bit and peeked outside. A pack of a dozen or more wolves surrounded me, looking like they were about to eat the moose and me with it. But then I realized: we were moving! Those wolves had that moose on the drag!

From inside the moose's belly, I caught hold of the tailbone with one hand and the Adam's apple with the other and found out I could steer that thing. You know, like using the rudder on your boat.

With the wolves dragging it at full gallop, I steered that moose right down to my boat. Then I jumped out and shot one of the wolves and the rest scattered in all directions.

I floated downriver till I got to Carmacks where I had left my truck. In the Carmacks Hotel I sold the wolf-hide to a German tourist. Then I tossed the meat into old Dodgy and drove home.

Windy Farr of Dawson had a similar experience some years ago so I guess it can happen to anybody. If you find yourself steering a moose, don't forget how to grab the tailbone and neckbone from the inside, and you'll be home with the meat in no time at all.
Sam Holoway.
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I had the opposite problem, how to get a 1200 lb moose up a mountain to a road, little more than 1/4 mile through thick woods.
 
I got a fair size brown bear this year.. up in the woods above our place I've seen grizzly and I saw a Spirit (white) bear.. that surprised me as much as I surprised him...

Got some awesome pictures of a bobcat at our place a few years ago..



We've got some owls too (they eat our cats)
OK, not this little guy


but this guy does


We've caught a couple weasels.. they're pretty neat little critters, but can't have them around chickens unfortunately...

I'm told this is a kind of june bug.. amazing color and the camera doesn't do it justice


Oh, and we have a pair of nearly-pet ravens.. as well.. they eat the mice my mother traps (since we can't keep a cat for more than a couple weeks... darned owls and yotes) and come complaining if there's nothing for breakfast
 

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