Busy night at the mouse traps.

[jbmaine]

Hi everyone, 

 I've been trying to thin out the mice around my tractor shed ( they live under the front of it) and so have been live trapping them ( 4 so far and counting). To keep track of my progress I have a trail cam set up.

 Most nights I just see this ( he went into the trap soon after this was taken)

 

However, last night was quite busy

 

 

We'll see what tonight brings

Thanks for looking

               Jim

[BrianMDTX]

Cool pics. 

[VolFan]

Is that a porcupine!?!?

[jbmaine]

53 minutes ago, VolFan said:

Is that a porcupine!?!?

Yes, it sure is. We have a lot of them around here

[Jig Man]

I keep bar bait in my sheds and barn for rodents.

[bulldog1935]

Two trail cams in Arizona confirmed two jaguars that have wandered that far north.  

S. Texas has a closely guarded population of 35 ocelots.  

Laguna Atascosa NWR was established for them, and the roads closed to motors after a road kill a dozen years ago (you can bicycle there).  

We've seen some of their footprints on Horse Island when we stopped to stretch from our kayaks.  

[gim]

That’s is a very rare sighting short fish.

[GaryH]

Bears in my yard all the time doesn’t bother me but that sure would.....

[TnRiver46]

23 hours ago, GaryH said:

Bears in my yard all the time doesn’t bother me but that sure would.....

Have you ever seen what a bear can do to a car??

[GaryH]

They are distrustful critters. Fortunately all we’ve gotten was trash can flipped and trash everywhere. Now they stay in the garage.

I did see the results of one that got in a car and destroyed it. But those big cats give me the creeps.

[TnRiver46]

3 minutes ago, GaryH said:

They are distrustful critters. Fortunately all we’ve gotten was trash can flipped and trash everywhere. Now they stay in the garage.

I did see the results of one that got in a car and destroyed it. But those big cats give me the creeps.

Yeah me too! They have trail camera footage of mountain lions in 2-3 different places in TN now........ game and fish denied their presence for years but now they finally admit it 

[Jig Man]

46 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Yeah me too! They have trail camera footage of mountain lions in 2-3 different places in TN now........ game and fish denied their presence for years but now they finally admit it 

Same here in MO for many years.  We saw one when I was a kid.  Everyone poopooed us.

[GaryH]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Yeah me too! They have trail camera footage of mountain lions in 2-3 different places in TN now........ game and fish denied their presence for years but now they finally admit it 

When I lived in Florida we were archery hunting. At lunch time we were taking a break. Way down the trail in front of us I thought I saw a shepherd come out of the brush and start walking down the trail away from us, when a small on walked out and my partner looking through his binoculars said oh chit that’s no shepherd it a Florida panther “mountain lion” He then started laughing and said it just went back in the brush right down my trail where my climbing stand was. I figured he was joking till we walked down there and sure as heck there were their tracks in the sand. I got in the stand and climbed the tree. Well that lasted around 15 minutes. Every noise I heard I would spin around to see what it was. So down the tree I came a double timed it back to the truck. I didn’t hunt that stand for two weeks.

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, Jig Man said:

Same here in MO for many years.  We saw one when I was a kid.  Everyone poopooed us.

They said the ones we had travelled the Missouri River valley from out west haha

[gim]

On 3/14/2021 at 10:30 AM, TnRiver46 said:

They said the ones we had travelled the Missouri River valley from out west haha

That is the same here in MN. People get them on a trail camera infrequently. The DNR claims they are young roaming males looking for new territory from the Black Hills. There is no reproducing population though.

[bulldog1935]

On 3/14/2021 at 8:40 AM, TnRiver46 said:

Yeah me too! They have trail camera footage of mountain lions in 2-3 different places in TN now........ game and fish denied their presence for years but now they finally admit it 

Three years ago, there was a mountain lion in and out of Freidrich Wilderness Park NW San Antonio.  It was seen one morning before daybreak on IH-10.  The park is loaded with both trails and a greenway, and people take their dogs to walk them there.  They did shut down the trails.  Another sighting in the town of Castroville, W of San Antonio 5 years earlier.  The most recent was reported not far from me, and again, toward suburban San Antonio.