Unexpected Visitor (Bobcat!) in Camera Trap

Unexpected Visitor (Bobcat!) in Camera Trap

This past winter, we spent some weeks trying to pin down the location of a bobcat den in our back forest. It was an exhilarating chase that I likened to a game of Battleship, where we would place game cameras in the forest at some locations based on educated guesses,...
Loon Monitoring

Loon Monitoring

In a lake near Forest Metrix’s offices, a pair of loons started nesting for the first time in a number of years. They didn’t pick a particularly good location, it seems, putting their eggs a couple inches above a mud bar formed at the mouth of a creek....
Cooper’s Hawks Update 4: Pre-flight

Cooper’s Hawks Update 4: Pre-flight

The last image I have of the smallest chick is from Tuesday the 21rst a bit after 2 p.m. It wasn’t doing well, sleeping much, not appearing terribly successful in the food scrums, and suffering from some sort of wound on the back of the neck. For the previous week or...
Cooper’s Hawks Update 3: Winnowing

Cooper’s Hawks Update 3: Winnowing

To see earlier posts on the Cooper’s hawk project, see these links: Update 1 Update 2 This third update recounts events starting on June 18, 2016. June 18: The larger of the young are just at that tween stage, where they are about to look more like hawks than...