Well here is something new on the trail cam: an American Woodcock. We were quite shocked when we saw the long beak of a shore bird in the camera footage. The camera is situated along a mostly dry creek bed on the edge of our property, but we’ve been here four years without an identifiable picture of one of these (also called timberdoodles). We are on the western edge of their territory. I rather hope it likes it here and we get more sightings. It is such a curious looking little beastie.

Specifically, there is a squirrel at the end of my rope. She has shredded it and is trying to tug it apart. Here is a fuzzy video. All of the alpaca fleece I left out before is gone, so I put a new batch out. She is going to have some warm and cozy babies.

This is one persistent snail. Despite its house weighing it down, it continues the trek across the glass of our back door.

My eldest headed out to the woods to check the trail cam, which I really appreciated since I can’t safely walk the uneven ground in my boot. We had some interesting pictures this time; what appears to be a very pregnant, or very fat opossum, deer legs, and possibly the tail end of a bobcat.

Maybe we should move the camera back a bit. Ha.

We set one of the pumpkins out in the back woods, with some holes carved for wildlife access, then setup the trail cam to see if any thing came to eat the pumpkin. I sort of forgot about checking it for awhile and when I did go out, I found the camera knocked over lens down, and the pumpkin whole, but all the seeds gone.

I checked the memory card and there was only one photo of a critter. I believe this is a picture of the back of a raccoon headed toward the pumpkin. Or maybe a possum, but it would be one of the big possums. Maybe the beastie took exception to having pictures taken, or was looking for more seeds when it knocked the camera over. Bummer.