Category Archives: mammals

  This is the first bear I have seen this year and it is already mid July. A large, black bear was exploring my property looking for food. It stopped for a moment when it discovered it was being watched. … Continue reading →

  I have seen a few white-tailed fawns, but this has got to be the smallest, and thus youngest, of that small group. A mother white-tailed deer attends to her small fawn.  

  What a difference one letter can make. Earlier this week, a mouse was posted here; later that day, we watched a moose. There is a remarkable difference in switching the u f0r the o. The mouse is tiny, the … Continue reading →

  The clearing of a bushy area on my property produced an unexpected sight: two house mice. I have not seen a house mouse (or a rat) for sometime, but apparently at least a couple of mice were living in … Continue reading →

  The adult muskrat is generally a solitary creature, except when breeding. I have only seen one or two a year, but always the muskrat seen was on its own. That changed yesterday when I watched three of them sitting … Continue reading →

  The first two items deal with white-tailed deer and fencing (not fighting with swords), but the last item does show fighting, but in play. Fences can serve a number of different purposes, but one of them is to keep … Continue reading →

  Two females stand on hind legs. They are beginning to spar for dominance. I had always assumed that female white-tailed deer were fairly docile. Despite being really common around here, I had never seen them fight — never, that … Continue reading →

  Squirrels cannot reach our bird feeder. Yet, birds can be sloppy eaters and frequently cause their food, black-oil sunflower seeds, to fall to the deck below. A resourceful squirrel can fetch one and spirit it away to one of … Continue reading →

  Unlike the grizzly bears seen a week ago, black bears often come into town in the fall. It is there that black bears might find food to fatten up before they enter torpor. On this occasion, a sow and … Continue reading →