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hattie
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# Posted: 2 Oct 2015 09:35pm
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I love the northern lights. Someday I hope to be able to see them in person. So beautiful!
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bugs
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# Posted: 26 Oct 2015 06:36pm
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Hey Just: A couple of weeks after the vultures were hanging around we discovered a very well "processed" elk carcass in the bush. Likely that was keeping the vultures amused. Too bad we didn't find it earlier so we could have set up a camera.
Interestingly, two of the vultures had wing tags. One vulture was hatched just 50 km from our place and the other was hatched in eastern Alberta.
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Rowjr
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# Posted: 27 Oct 2015 07:17pm
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Very nice !
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bugs
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# Posted: 24 Dec 2015 10:56am
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
from our small cabin to yours
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Just
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# Posted: 24 Dec 2015 12:17pm
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Missed your post in OCT, away I guess , odd thing about young
vultures pure white when they are chicks ! have a great winter , just
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bugs
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# Posted: 1 Apr 2016 09:11am
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Could be the last snowshoeing for the winter at our place. Overall a mild and dry winter.
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Just
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# Posted: 7 May 2016 02:38pm
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Hope bugs is safe , fire heading his way.. let us know bugs ?
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bugs
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# Posted: 10 May 2016 05:09pm
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Hey Just
Thanks for your concern but the Fort McMurry fires and the one moving into SK are over 300 miles from us. All we had was a couple of smokey days....thankfully. And it was not as bad as last year when the fires less than 60 miles from us. Can not imagine what the people in Fort Mc are dealing with. Images are terrible and scary. But it looks like things are improving and the community, province and country are coming together to assist and support.
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# Posted: 10 May 2016 05:10pm
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Hi Just
Thanks for your concern but the fires are about 300 miles from us. Just a few smokey days and better than last year when the fires were less than 60 miles from us.
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# Posted: 26 May 2016 01:33pm - Edited by: bugs
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Some pix from last weekend.
After an absence of a couple of months "our" elk have returned. Also had three elk cows at the lick. Interesting we are starting to get more mule deer this year. They were scarce a couple of years ago.
Lots of bull!
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Just
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# Posted: 26 May 2016 04:45pm
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That's good news Bugs , looks like your slew has lots of water to help protect your place .
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bugs
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# Posted: 29 Jan 2017 04:00pm
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First trip out to our place for 2017. Wonderful to get out and snowshoe about the place after a 2 month hiatus and check the cameras. Unfortunately it appears the wild boar are showing up more frequently.
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Just
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# Posted: 29 Jan 2017 04:52pm
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Hard to believe that a pig can live in that cold climate.
I read that we had them here in Ontario a 100 years ago.
Thanks for sharing.
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creeky
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# Posted: 30 Jan 2017 12:36pm
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I'll bet those wild boar are mighty tasty. Is there a season for them?
Are boar an introduced species there? Any indication of changes to the environment? I imagine they do quite a bit of rooting.
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bugs
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2017 03:13pm
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Creeky: Yes they were introduced as an alternate farm animal in the 70's and 80's. The experts thought they would not survive the winters if they escaped. They are doing well and reproducing quite happily. The gov't has opened the season on them for hunting any time. However they are mostly out at night and night hunting is illegal in SK as is game hunting with dogs. So their numbers are not being decreased much by regular hunting. There is an effort to trap the sounders and then exterminate them but again it is likely not making too much of an impact. I understand in some areas they are doing a good deal of damage to crops.
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creeky
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2017 05:31pm
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I'd be looking to bag one. How are you set for local butchers? I miss my farmer's sausage.
Game in my area has gotten real scarce with the rise of the coyote. That's another animal that there's an open season on. Seemingly making no difference. And guys are "training" with dogs.
I notice in your pics that the snow cover looks pretty light. We had a bad drought last year. Streams dried right up. Caught a bit of a break in the fall, but there's almost no snow cover. Mild temps. Gonna be an odd spring.
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bugs
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# Posted: 29 Sep 2017 11:54am
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some pix from our place over the summer
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bugs
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# Posted: 29 Sep 2017 11:55am
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and a few others
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Just
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# Posted: 29 Sep 2017 12:10pm
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great pics I didn't know dragons were carnivorous. Hence your name .
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bronco_ed
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# Posted: 29 Sep 2017 12:24pm - Edited by: bronco_ed
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The diversity of wildlife is incredible...
Beautiful...
Do you have areas set up for observation and photography? Or are the photos from game cams/and or walking around the property?
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Just
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# Posted: 29 Sep 2017 08:03pm
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population is up they left on a north wind this morning . The wind will carry them across lake Erie
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bugs
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# Posted: 16 Feb 2020 03:16pm
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A few pix from our last visit to our shack....
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cow moose and twins
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snowhoeing on our pond
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bugs
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# Posted: 16 Feb 2020 03:19pm
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and a few more
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chairs and snowshoes
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bull elk
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bugs
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# Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:01pm
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This one was taken just before Xmas... It looks like the "team" dumped Santa as we didn't see a sleigh... 
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Hangblague
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# Posted: 11 Mar 2020 05:16pm
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Those are some great wildlife shots. Are any of them from trail cam's or are you that stealthy and patient?
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creeky
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# Posted: 12 Mar 2020 10:14am
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Nice bugs.
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bugs
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# Posted: 26 Aug 2020 05:54pm - Edited by: bugs
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Testing a video of a week at our mineral lick and along one of our trails... and visitors to our porch.... "parks people" hard a work clearing trails...  :
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hattie
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# Posted: 26 Aug 2020 11:25pm
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AMAZING videos bugs!!!! That was really interesting to see such a variety of wildlife. The bird song was beautiful too!
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bushbunkie
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# Posted: 27 Aug 2020 08:04am
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Amazing Bugs…you have quite the natural zoo going on that homestead of yours! Glad things are going well.
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bugs
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# Posted: 27 Aug 2020 12:31pm
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thanks!!! Glad the video worked... first time I tried linking one... maybe I will try a couple more.
As we have entered a new world order over the past few months.. I suspect many, like me and the lady wife, are appreciating our get away shacks to escape a city and its constrictions of social distancing and face masks, etc... Our little oasis of sanity is more important than ever now...
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