Category: Wildlife

Hello, bee

On By CarynIn Wildlife

I was walking by my kitchen when I spotted an anomaly on a box on my counter: a bee.

Photo description: honey bee on a cardboard box

What are you doing inside little bee? And where have you been, and what brought you to this particular landing spot? Mysteries. I put a small amount of white sugar in a spoon and filled it with water and offered it to the bee. It was very thirsty and gladly accepted the offering, but wasn’t keen on leaving the box. I put a small puddle of sugar water on the box, then took the box and the bee outside in the shade. I had to run errands, and when I returned home, the bee was gone. iNaturalist folks identified her as a Western honey bee.

Photo description: honey bee drinking sugar water from a metal spoon

Now I have “give me sugar, in water” stuck in my head from the movie Men In Black (1997).

Oh, deer!

On By CarynIn Wildlife

After getting mostly deer body parts on the trail cam, I adjusted it to look down rather than across and was rewarded with full body deer pictures! How many can you spot in the picture below?

Photo description: night view picture with a winter landscape of twigs and braches and deer, with eyes aglow.

I find four deer, all does as far as I can tell. I do have the advantage of seeing all the pictures before and after this one, but here are all the deer circled.

Photo description: four colored circles on the deer in the same picture.

Even cooler, the deer rest within the camera view, so the trail cam is going to stay in this position for a while.

Photo description: two deer laying down in camera view.

Hello?

On By CarynIn Wildlife
Photo description: Night vision photo of a deer’s eyes looking into the trail cam.

This is another gem from the recent trail cam collection; a deer peeking into the camera with what I interpret as curiosity. Mostly I get pictures of legs and tails, so this was startling.

Pardon me, as I skip frame

On By CarynIn photography, Wildlife

I took in my SD card from the trail cam and uploaded it on the computer. There were 50 pictures, mostly of deer parts, but with two adjacent pictures that made a nearly whole deer. It made me laugh.

Photo description: screen shot of two frames in my photo app, where the head of the deer is in the left frame, the body is in the right frame, and the neck lines up.

National Bison Day

On By CarynIn Wildlife

Happy National Bison Day! As an absolutely shameless plug, here is a link to the Buffalo Wool Company, and their list of ranchers and conservators to help you support the growing bison population and local economies!

Photo description: American Bison in a green pasture with a line of green trees in the background and blue skies. Photo taken by me last year at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center