This is Shadow the long haired black meadow cat that hangs out with Mr Tom, my neighbor’s cat. I’m not sure what other names he goes by, I call him Shadow because he follows Mr Tom around and is black. Shadow has one white whisker, but also doesn’t understand photo shoots. He assumes my presence means he gets brushed, so the photo is hilariously bad.
Although they are not on the trail cam footage as often as cats and opossums, our armadillos do make an appearance.
What I haven’t seen yet on the new trail cams are raccoons.
The second trail cam I set lower than recommended on a tree in the woods, just behind the meadow. After collecting the pictures, I think I’ll raise it up some.
Ooo! My folks gave me two trail cams! My old camera died after seven years of use, and I haven’t had a peek into the wildlife in the back woods for a while. I set one camera up by the back of the coop, and the other where I was getting deer pictures before, a little ways into the woods. I set the cameras on the trail setting, which I love. Mostly what I am getting is pictures of the meadow cats, the semi-feral outdoor cats that hang out between my neighbors’ house and mine, but I did get an interesting time line of a couple of opossums.
Then sequence of photos shows a larger, lighter opossum approaching a smaller, darker opossum. The first thing my eldest noticed on seeing the photos was that the opossum on the left doesn’t have eye shine on its left eye, a possible injury indicating blindness in that eye, maybe? I’ve seen both these critters on the new trail cam individually. Opossums are reported to be solitary, only coming together to mate in late winter early spring, so it is unlikely these two are buddies. I am interested to see if I get any more glimpses of the two together.
I found a lollipop made for cats at the pet store. The kind I found was made of freeze-dried chicken pressed into a heart shape on a paper stick.
Thor the cat enjoyed the lollipops the best, he actually licked it, then bit it. When he did bite off a chunk he swallowed it whole, which concerned me because they weren’t small chunks. Izzy the calico was not impressed. Sophie the dilute calico couldn’t be bothered with licking and just chomped hard through the whole lollipop.
Critters and Craft 