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Buck Spies The Camera

Buck Spies The Camera
Buck Spies The Camera

I just collected 16 game trail Camera SD cards (took hours) and downloaded a BUNCH of really interesting captures this evening. . Here this Buck Spies the Camera in a moment of curiousity but gave in to thirst regardless to get some of the tap water we provide for them. That’s actually a pretty good high pressure jet which keeps the tank open even in pretty durn cold weather. Approaching a noisy/splashy tank is new to some deer. Familiarity to running water up here on a dry land ranch is rare. They get skiddish. This is pipeline fed from our main well. It runs all year.

Now regarding this Little buck lolol. He survived hunting season up here somehow. He’s going to be interesting next year for sure… I have dozens of captures of his antics chasing the does around. He had many captures, and this is the closest. Game Grail Cameras CAN do wonderful work IF you point the correctly. I JUST got his antlers into this capture lolol. Maybe next time I’ll have it so it doesn’t cut off his butt … The sun light was just perfect for the exposure here. In other words, I got REALLY lucky with this capture blue sky and all. 😀

I call this a 5×7 point buck or a 12 point. I consider any antler point you can hang a ring on as a “counter”. Those brow times are actually quite large. The big brown eye in this image is beyond what I expect from Game Trail Cameras. This is amazing for the technology . I had to do VERY little to this in the digital Darkroom which is really novel from my point of view. Typically, Game Trail Camera images take LOTS of work to make them into a properly finished image. This one not so much.📷

Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderland

Title: Buck Spies the Camera

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Coyote Breakfast: Morning Sip

Coyote Breakfast: Morning Sip
Coyote Breakfast: Morning Sip

A Coyote Breakfast: Morning Sip

Perfectly colored for the grass this time of year, this Coyote Breakfast: Morning Sip of Water …. That along with a pee over in the corner is what a Coyote’s breakfast usually consists of lolol.

These guys are mostly mouse hunters. Unfortunately, they do kill livestock babies, (calves lambs other wise known as a bad thing). They keep a Llama breeding industry thriving to keep them away and they keep a LOT of Coyote Hunters occupied (which is also a good thing). Generally ranchers try to eradicate them if they are hanging about. Ranch cats are always under threat of coyote’s.

Value of a Good Electric Fence:

This guy is a mile from my homestead which is surrounded by a very effective electric fence system primarily to keep deer out. It usually keeps everything else out too. There aren’t a lot of gaps in that electric fence larger than about 1/2 a foot lolol. It took me a year to get it right and about 3 months of solid work but I have a little 10 acre island of mostly wild critter free zone.

Living in the backcountry of Wyoming/Montana, we deal with it’s other night creatures besides coyotes too. Skunks, raccoons and porcupines run about and do occasionally get inside my electric fence. As a system to keep out most things, it’s very effective but the very small do get in but they do learn to keep their tails down and not up where it hits that fence lololol. All my cat’s know that game with the low electric fence wire. Keep that tail down or get knocked down lol. The dogs however don’t react well to porcupines and skunks. Fortunately we’ve been pretty lucky only pulling a few quills out of noses. There has also been a few baths in peroxide and tomato juice and I have my share of skunk stories from living up here.

Fortunately we’ve never had a coyote penetrate our fenceline. I’ve seen them right outside the perimeter before. I didn’t see it but a lion was spotted outside the wire. A few bobcats…. I know many other things hang out but we haven’t noted them. I have plaster casts of Wolf footprints (positively ID’s by a wildlife biologist) from about a 1000 yards from my fenceline at my com tower. I’ve seen bear scat out at my dinosaur dig site and there have been other bear reports locally. You never know what your keeping out with a good electric fence.

Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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Here’s Looking at You Kid

Here's Looking at You Kid
Here's Looking at You Kid

“Here’s Looking at you Kid” is a Game Trail Camera Capture. I use pretty good cameras (30 meg images) but I have to put a lot of work into each and every image I finish from them. They have their issues but are always candid in their acquisitions.

I’m currently running a network of 26 game trail cameras which takes several trips to swap out cards around the ranch. I usually mix business with pleasure and gather camera SD cards (modern film) when I’m in an area. Some of my cameras may spend the whole winter without me visiting as I can’t always get to them in the snow. They will be there in the spring just the same

This gal is taking advantage of one of the 4 stock tanks I keep open all year. Just enough water ground water flowing to keep it open and not suck our water pressure down to nothing because an open faucet 3 miles of pipline and downhill from the well will pretty much ruin a good shower lolol.
18inch square aspect image.

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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Aquaponic Orchid and Praying Mantis Hunting

Aquaponic Orchid and Praying Mantis Hunting
Aquaponic Orchid and Praying Mantis Hunting

This is another image from that Mantis that I saved from a for sure drowning. I randomly walked past a stock water tank and saw this guy floundering stuck in a carpet of floating algae strings. It took a few minutes to detangle him preferably without ripping his limbs off. he spent the next 10 minutes inside my palm warming up and once released into the jungle like humidity and temp of our underground greenhouse (Walipihni), he started chewing off the algae still wrapping his claws.

This was taken a week after that when he was happily crawling along the tops of some of the orchids I grow down in the Walipini looking for Lady bugs no doubt lol. The lady bugs hunt everything else…

Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana).