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A foretaste of things to come

Posted in golden retriever, West Virginia, tagged , , on September 28, 2014| 4 Comments »

Autumn is slowly revealing its splendors.

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Mallard metamorphosis

Posted in birds, tagged , , , , on September 28, 2014| 7 Comments »

The young drake is coming into his adult winter/breeding plumage.

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Very nice video about modern scientific dog breeding

Posted in dog breeding, dog health, tagged , , , on September 20, 2014| 6 Comments »

The closed registry system is so nineteenth/twentieth century. This is what the dogs need now.

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David Cunningham comments on this blog pretty regularly.

 

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Toms and jakes

Posted in birds, West Virginia, wildlife, tagged , , on September 19, 2014| 1 Comment »

The sun was not cooperating, but look at the beards on those toms!

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Outside of the mating season, male and female turkeys form sex-segregated groups.

Oh, and a word about the terminology:

In the UK, the term for a male turkey is a “stag.”

In North America, it is a “tom” for a mature male and a “jake” for a younger one.

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A nice close-up of a bear

Posted in Carnivorans, West Virginia, wildlife, tagged , , , , on September 19, 2014| 2 Comments »

Maybe a little too close! His butt almost took down the camera!

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Three turkeys on September 11

Posted in West Virginia, wildlife, tagged , on September 18, 2014|

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Check the time stamp.

 

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A doe, a deer, a female deer– and her fawn!

Posted in West Virginia, wildlife, tagged , on September 18, 2014| 1 Comment »

As you may have noticed, last week I had two trail cams out. One was in a beech wood, deep in a hollow, not far from creek, where lots of animals come by to drink.

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Doe does not like her close up

Posted in West Virginia, wildlife, tagged , on September 18, 2014| 2 Comments »

LOL

“I’m on camera!”

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Little buck

Posted in West Virginia, wildlife, tagged , , on September 18, 2014|

Right behind a larger deer.

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Coyote spooked in the night

Posted in Carnivorans, West Virginia, wild dogs, wildlife, tagged , , , on September 18, 2014| 1 Comment »

The trail cam spooked this coyote before it ran off.  If you can look closely and have a bit of understanding of domestic dog body language, the fear and nervousness exhibited here are unmistakable.

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I posted this video on Facebook a few days ago, but Youtube’s resolution is just a lot better. You can tell this is a very typical Eastern coyote, which is a coyote that has some wolf and domestic dog ancestry.

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