Trail Camage 9

This a fork in the trail.

Here we have a doe minding her own business.

Now she's running with another doe.  From what- we don't know.

Later, another doe and her fawn pass through.

The cute factor on that fawn is pretty high.

When a New Member Joins the Pack

It's not always a smooth nor peaceful transition. 

I've had it up to here with that brat.  She is too damned friendly.

She jumps on me and slobbers.

We don't like her.

You monsters might recall how Lois suffered.

We weren't that bad.

Besides, Lois was a saint.

Lois's sainthood is not the issue.   We are talking about the Hazel problem.

 


  I've been growling and stuff.  She's not afraid of me!  Why is nobody afraid of me?!















Let us ask ourselves.

  What Would Lois Do?

Trail Camage 8

A catbird hangs out in this cool sort of grapevine cave.

Here's what it looks like through the "entrance", that is, the opening that can be seen from the trail.

The inside is fairly small- three or four feet in diameter.

You can see the wall of the grapevine cave on one side

On the other side the wall is covered by a wild rose hedge.  (I wish I'd taken this picture a month ago.  It was full of white flowers.)

Skunk.

Groundhog.

?!

!?

Trail Camage 7

Grackle on a dead branch.

Grackle close up.

Cat bird

Deer with sun shining through her ears.

There sure are a lot of blood vessels in a deer's ear!

It is not conclusive but that just might be a bat in flight on the left.

Meanwhile, at the Homestead

There is a peaceful moment when puppy Hazel is not tormenting the older dogs.

Clover notices some activity outside the inner perimeter.  She comments to Lily, "there's a couple deer by the apple tree."

Lily responds by barking at them. 







Clover regrets her rash remark.  Peace is lost.

"Um,"  Hazel asks.  "What's the protocol here?"