Pregnant Doe and Velvet Antlers

Pretty slow week at the camera traps last week. I guess most of the momma critters are having or tending to little ones right now. I'd hoped to get a few fawn pictures last week but I got very few deer at all. Below are a few pics of a very pregnant doe. She looks like one of the older does and is probably carrying twins. Also got a couple of shots of a young buck just starting to grow new antlers.

Three Cubs

My mountain set is still producing great shots with a mommy and three small cubs passing through last week. Hopefully these four will hang around the farm all summer like the sow and twins did two summers ago. Those three showed up at about every camera trap I set that summer. I was beginning to get the feeling they were stalking me ;). The Does should be having fawns right now so hopefully we get some fawn pics the next couple of weeks also.

Turkeys

Some turkeys browsing through the mountain clearing. We've had a lot of rain here the last couple of weeks....over 5" just today. Hopefully we're going to get some warm dry weather the next couple of weeks while the turkey poults are hatching out. Cold, damp weather is very bad for the young turkeys. The poults can easily die from exposure and hypothermia in that type weather.

Opossoms and More

I got a bunch more bear pics last week but I thought you might be getting bear fatigue so I decided to post a few of the other critters that have shown up on the cameras lately. Got a couple of rare shots of an opossum on both of the mountain sets. Though the opossums are plentiful in my area they don't get on camera much. Also got a couple of Gray Foxes and the big raccoon. I'm probably going to relocate two of my cameras next week. I need to get one back out on the farm to see what's going on out there and the other one I'm going to have to think about. I'm leaving the Covert at the mountain hotspot. Just getting too many different animals and great shots there to move it.