A couple of visitors

[peternap]

I always enjoy Mountain Don's Game camera posts.
I pulled the cameras yesterday and had about 1200 pictures. Bear, Coyote and Bob Cat are always my favorite. No Bob Cats this week but one of my larger bears and one of the most wolfish Yotes I've ever seen.

[MountainDon]

Good size bear and a mean looking 'yote.

Where's the ladder go up to?


I put a camera in the trees on the lower north facing slope along a well worn path (deer, elk) last time before we left. "Hope there are some video clips.

[peternap]

Good size bear and a mean looking 'yote.

Where's the ladder go up to?


I put a camera in the trees on the lower north facing slope along a well worn path (deer, elk) last time before we left. "Hope there are some video clips.

That's one of my Ladder Stands Don.
On a good day I'll see 30 Deer walk by.

I'm working on a new video camera now using a GoPro camera and a Super Sniper board. It'll give me a 170 degree view at 1080 P.

[Sassy]

Cool pix!  Big bear & that coyote does look like a wolf.

[glenn kangiser]

That Coyote looks like a German Shepherd cross.   Is that possible?

[glenn kangiser]

I guess it is - Coydog - Googled it.

[peternap]

I guess it is - Coydog - Googled it.

Very possible and probable Glenn.
There are lots of names, but locally they're called Coydogs.
They are also dangerous. They have all the cunning and ferocity of a coyote and the size of a Domestic German Shepard plus they don't have the natural fear of people Coyotes have. They are especially bad if they start to pack with strays.

[RIjake]

Here's a funny shot of a Maine Black Bear who got curious with my camera!

[StinkerBell]

Nice.

[peternap]

Here's a funny shot of a Maine Black Bear who got curious with my camera!

They are silly things sometimes. Every once in a while I'll get a picture of a bear eyeball trying to look into the lens.

[StinkerBell]

Do you give the wildlife names? I am thinkingof calling that Bear Yogi. and the coyote we can call Wile E

[rick91351]

Love the old bear - the 'yote' needs to go.  Looks way to wolfy.  I love our coyotes out here.  My dad would lecture me never kill one so long as they stay a good distance from buildings and they are not bothering the livestock.  He would then ask me do you have a clue how many ground squirrels and mice they kill in a year?  As if I would know     They knew where that line was not to cross.  Very seldom would they even look at a cow or a calf.  In fact they love to hunt in among them.  I love to watch them hunt the open fields and pastures with the cattle.  Poking around here and there then they make a jump and munch down a ground squirrel or find a mouse den.
       

[RIjake]

Latest visitor on the camera

[peternap]

Latest visitor on the camera

I sure wish we had Moose!

[rwanders]

Very possible and probable Glenn.
There are lots of names, but locally they're called Coydogs.
They are also dangerous. They have all the cunning and ferocity of a coyote and the size of a Domestic German Shepard plus they don't have the natural fear of people Coyotes have. They are especially bad if they start to pack with strays.

Cross breeding between wolves and domestic dogs is fairly common in Alaska and especially in the small villages between sled dogs and wolves. The results are usually very noticeable. They often have the long legs and distinctive loping gait of the wolf side and their eyes are often immediately recognizable with that intense look of a predator. I think there is something like an instinctive or genetic memory of that wolf stare in us. People who have never seen a wolf before seem to immediately have a strong visceral reaction to those eyes. You immediately know its not just a dog staring at you. 

[MountainDon]

Video, deer jumps fence.  Click image
It's a gray scale picturebecuase the infrared system had not switched to daylight mode yet.

[MountainDon]

Elk crosses fence

[MountainDon]

And another! Young deer decides not to jump fence