Monthly Archive: December, 2013

Backyard Reconyx Trail Camera Photos

I installed four trail cameras along the two streams at the back end of our property for a three week period to see what wildlife are working the riparian corridors. I got hundreds… Continue reading

Day Hike Along The Potomac

Great Falls 9200 Old Dominion Drive, McLean, VA A day hike along the Potomac River. Great Falls is an 800-acre, National Park Service owned site in Fairfax County, Virginia. The falls represent the… Continue reading

The Christmas Goose

It’s early in the morning and I’m sleeping soundly. My neighbor Tom calls and says that he has geese on his pond. “Let’s blast them.” I was now up with adrenalin, got dressed,… Continue reading

Trees That Miss Mega-Fauna

Petrified Giant North American Ground Sloth Poop It’s true that such adaptations are now anachronistic; they have lost their relevance. But the trees have been slow to catch on; a natural consequence of… Continue reading

Film Festival Highlights

LKT Fraternity, Towson University Film Festival Intro Mass Media and Society  

Why Are Urban Parks Loaded With Squirrels?

The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States. http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/100/3/691.full http://gizmodo.com/the-fascinating-story-of-why-u-s-parks-are-full-of-squ-1478182563

Snowy Owls In Maryland!

https://www.facebook.com/capitalweather?hc_location=timeline http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031003498.html http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/gotsnowies2013/

High Number of Road Kill This Year

VA DGIF The scarcity of acorns this fall might have delayed the deer rut according to one hunting expert, because bucks and does have been so lean. Deer are also now more likely… Continue reading

Squirrel 22

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Ice

Clarksville, Howard County, MD 7:30 AM              

4-H Shotgun Practice

Howard County 4-H Gun Club Thanksgiving Weekend Sunday shotgun practice at AGC, Marriottsville. From left to right and top to bottom: Instructor Mark, Instructor Jake, Gregory, Hunter, Mason, Instructor Bud, Instructor Martha, Gina, Mitchell,… Continue reading

Today’s Moody Winter Photo

The Active Beaver Lodge Buckskin Ridge, Glenelg, Howard County, MD