May 9-23, 2012

Two visits over the past three weeks or so, with little to show for it from the camera trap. Still set up by the stream, with ferns and skunk cabbage rising rapidly. A few exposures in the first two weeks of the month, most of them false triggers it would seem except for this:

A few point-and-shoot pics worth posting though:

 fiddleheads coming up

 scat, almost certainly from a fisher

disaggregated scat, mostly fur

Returned just under two weeks later to find the batteries on the camera to be depleted, with the memory card empty as a result. I should have known better and changed them earlier. Swapped the batteries out and moved the camera back to the top of the blowdown, mostly because the vegetation looks to be capable of obstructing the camera when placed below knee height. The big surprise of the visit was finding lady slippers along the path near the school entrance. I thought the deer would have devoured any of these that sprouted up:

On the tick front, only two ticks on the most recent visit but a whopping 23 on the visit earlier in the month. YTD total into triple digits at 103.