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Bummer.

That so sucks.

It is way cool having eyes out in the woods whilst one goes about his daily rigors.
We discussed these Bushnells before - back when mine still worked. I will be digging for the receipt this afternoon. I came home from an unsuccessful deer/slug road trip hoping to find a couple weeks worth of pics on my card. Knowledge is, as they say, power. The device sported no pics and no power upon it's retrieval. I was busy enough with the goose guide service that i only got to chase 'em with stick-n-string for a few days at the end of season, so their rut travel patterns didn't matter anyway. Still, you don't expect a $250 piece of technology to just quit working a couple months after ya buy it. I look forward to using it(and/or a few others like it) next season. I believe i will be targeting predators this off-season and dearly love the idea of supplying a carcass as incentive to "smile".

We had 2 deer carcasses on our land after our early deer season. One of them that is down to a skeleton is still attracting coyotes, eagles, hawks, raccoons, possum and crows. The other which is half eaten only has small scavengers going to it. It seems very strange.

The county I live in Illinois is Montgomery and the farmers around here with livestock swear there are big cats here they have seen them they claim I live on 5 acres in a timber and I have seen some large paw prints in the creek beds makes me wonder sometimes if it could be possible.

Our DNR confirmed a cougar near Milton, WI which is not very rural and close to the IL border. Until that happening Milton was only known as the home of Tony Romo.

At work today we saw a real rarity a Canadian Lynx and a real big one too. Its fur was so heavy it was hard to guess the weight but it made it look like a 50lb cat. I've seen plenty of Bobcats and one dead Puma on the shoulder of Hwy 2 but this is the first Lynx.

That is a pretty spiffy sighting.

Saw another Lynx at work tonight, this one was about thirty miles east of the last one.

I see bears,coyotes and what I think was a Fisher once,I have caught bears on our trailcam in the Fed that butts up to my farm

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Here in the Sonoron Desert, we were surprised to see 2 deer walk through our yard.
A lion scratched our water tank too.
No water around for miles nasty cactus. I thought only humans were stupid enough to live here.

When I worked for the Dept of Corrections in CA in the early 60, I had to work in a prison for the first month. I spent 2 of those weeks in a tower at night. The only way I stayed awake was by looking out at the surrounding desert and spotting bobcats, coyotes, etc. BTW do you see any jack rabbits where you live? On my last 2 trips out west I didn't see any.

Yep. Jack rabbits and little bunnies roadrunners baby quail .......

There was one big Jack with a bullet hole in his ear. He came by for a snack every day. Water too. We used to feed birds but it just brought rats.

Our morning walk is up to 3 large dead things near the road. The vultures are not doing their gig. THe bunnies are making it all over the place. The Ironwood are in bloom as everything else and it's so dry I can't smell anything but death all over the desert. The Coyotes ar working overtime.

There has been a wolverine spotted by cameras in the northern sierra several times over the last few years, after missing for 80 years.



One of my favorite camping areas is frequented by scavenging bears. The only thing that scares the bears away is lions. Dogs seem to do a good job of keeping the lions away. I used to have two hound dogs that would make a whole lot of noise when they were scared of something, and a ranger said the lion didn't stick around long after I arrived with my bassets.

Yep. Jack rabbits and little bunnies roadrunners baby quail .......

There was one big Jack with a bullet hole in his ear. He came by for a snack every day. Water too. We used to feed birds but it just brought rats.

Our morning walk is up to 3 large dead things near the road. The vultures are not doing their gig. THe bunnies are making it all over the place. The Ironwood are in bloom as everything else and it's so dry I can't smell anything but death all over the desert. The Coyotes ar working overtime.[/quote]

I was once in the high desert outside of Albuquerque when it rained. My wife is a botanist whose specialty is wild flowers, but I've seen anything to compare with a desert in bloom.