Nothing new

Went out again this evening, had to do some "home camoflauge," which detailed rubbing charcoal and ashes on my face, jacket, and pants.  Didn't see anything, but I'm pretty sure I got smelled-out.  I heard a warning blow/snort. But couldn't see the deer, probably got wind of me and got out of there.  Better luck next time.

 My blind.  Just the fallen top of a tree.  The grey worked best with my home-made camo.

 The view from the front.  I had to do very little "fixing" to get comfy.  Just pushed aside some leaves and stirred up some dirt, to help cover the scent.

 My right-hand view.  Looking towards a hill that leads up to a rock out-cropping.  The deer snort came from my left side, where my vision was blocked by thick branches and dead leaves.

 The home-made camo.  Charcoal on the face, and you can barely see the lines I drew on my jacket, they were also on the pants.  Charcoal has no smell, and it's actually used to qabsord smells around it, it's also darker than mud, making it a better face paint than dirt.  The other thing is that ashes are a very base substance, and can be a substitute for soad while camping.  And it also doesn't irritate the skin like dirt usually does.

A better shot of the home-made camo. This was near a summer home where I picked up some charcoal from their fire-pit to further cover my face and hands with charcoal. You can see how dark it was getting.  And after a little while it started raining, so I moved out, heading for home. 

Out amblin'

Went out this morning and yesterday evening, trying to see some critters.  No luck.  Squirrels, heard some turkeys, dind't see anything of interest really. 

Alot of deer sign out, looks like the bucks might be getting ready for the rut.  It's the beginning of the rut here in the hollow, saw a couple scrapes as well as a rub, photos will be up later.  I ended up dumping out a pile of moldy corn a couple days ago, and it looks like the critters have found that. 

The weather this morning was not very pleasant, cold, gray, and rainy.  I probably could've sat out longer, but I was wet, cold ,and hungry.  The latter of the three being the deciding factor. 

Took the trail cam down yesterday, had a few pictures, some turkeys, a buck, crows, and a house cat.  Exciting stuff.  Going to put it out again today, maybe at one of the scrapes or the rub.  But I might try and get a little variety in my pictures and put it where I could get some other critters on photo.  Thoughts?

Bucks of Green Hollow

The valley where I live is called Green Hollow, we only own a small plot of land, so I usually end up putting my trail cameras on the neighbor's property, sharing with them the photos I capture.  Deer hunting is big in WI, so most of the property owners are interested in the bucks I capture on their property and not that interested in the other critters.  Unless it's a black bear, everyone here wants to see a black bear, or mountain lion.  But, seemings I have not captured either of those two critters, I'll just be showing you what bucks we have here, in Green Hollow.

Eight-pointer, my brother found the sheds to him last year.  Although we don't hunt deer, we love to hunt other things like sheds and morels.

 Same buck.  He was actually traveling with a small six pointer, which is right after this photo.  My Mom saw them running across the road when coming home from work.  The next day, my brother and I saw the eight-pointer in a soybean field just outside of the hollow, this time he was with a nine to ten-point buck, depending on if the nine-pointer's antlers had grown since last year.  I had found the matched set to the nine-pointer the earlier spring in a corn field outside of the hollow.

 The little six pointer the big eight had been traveiling with.  We may have found his sheds, but I don't things so, because the size of the antlers are smaller than any of the three point sheds we found last year.  But mayhaps they hadn't grown to their potential yet.

 This monster is a ten-point. Super high tines. This area has plenty of food, and very excellent geneics.  Mix that in with a neighbor who knows how to make deer happy and only harvests bucks when they're mature, and I mean, mature, then you get bucks like this.  The owner of this property gave me a lift on his four-wheeler to place this camera out, on the way up we ended up touring his property, and saw a variety of deer.  Mostly does, but he believes that there's an even bigger buck than the one below.

 Same place as the above, but with a little eight-pointer moving through.  There's plenty of bucks here in the valley.

 Seven pointer, captured nearby to where the big eight had been.

 Next to a well covered and protected pond is where these next two bucks where caught on camera.  A small eight-pointer and a six pointer.  The six-pointer is the source of one the sets of sheds I think I found last spring.

 Six-pointer.

First post

A couple of pictures off my Bushnell Trail cam.  One of the two cameras I have, the other being a Moultrie, sadly the Moultrie does not handle cold weather very well, and ends up shutting off.  So right now I'm woking off of one camera.  If you hear of any good trail camera deals, please share!!!!

Just a couple of deer, nothing too exciting, there's plenty of them here in SW Wisconsin.  The log that she's sniffing at is actually where I had sat a week or two earlier, trying to catch a wildlife photo.  She could be smelling my scent, I'm not sure.  It's been an amazingly dry October, so I woudn't be surprised if she could still smell me.  But it could just as well be a scent post of some critter.

 Take note of what she's now looking at.  Another doe, different coloration, pretty interesting.  I have no idea why the doe on the right is darker that the doe on the left, maybe a change of diet/habitat, the one on the left could be spending more time on the ridge....?  Oooooooor, it might be the lighting.

 The picture following this one showed the both of them bounding off, up the deer trail the darker doe was traveling on. They blend in amazingly well, and I find myself jealous of their excellent camoflauge.

Just starting

Hello!  I'm just starting and I'm entirley new to the whole blogging aspect.  The focus of this blog will be pictures of animals I capture on my trail cameras, as well as things I find on any hikes I venture on during the course of my blogging.  Thanks for viewing!  Old trail cam pics to arrive soon!