7/2/17
Bull Moose At Rawah Ranch
6/20/17 - Series of 3 Videos
#1 Bear Sneaking Into My Backyard
#2 Bear Approaching My Trail Camera
#3 Bear Running Away After I Yelled "Get Out Of Here!"
5/27/17
Bobcat Prowling Around Backyard In Broad Daylight
10/17/16
Backyard apple tree attracts our usual fall visitors; this one is nice and plump!
1/16/16
Close Up Bobcat Encounter
9/19/15
Early Evening Skinny Dip
8/19/15
Shiny Black Bear
8/13/15
Skunk drinking from mountain stream.
6/13/15 Young black bear (that happens to be part blonde) checking out a log that fell across the creek. note: auto date and time stamp shown on the video is incorrect.
4/10/15 Coyote crossing natural bridge to be with his sweetie on the other side.
9/03/14 This 6-Point Bull Elk came past my trail camera this morning. Looks like he just got through rolling in a nearby elk wallow.
8/14/14 We passed by 2 flocks of Wild Turkeys on our way to check the trail-cams today. One was in the timber high up on the mountain the other was on an open grassy slope near the base.
8/1/14 Lots of slow "traffic" almost caused me to be late for my performance at the Laramie River Ranch this evening.
7/5/14 Mule Deer Buck
(photo taken by my cam-hunting pardner, Juli Schrader's trail-cam)
6/29/14 Mountain Lion (photo taken by my cam-hunting pardner, Juli Schrader's trail-cam)
6/29/14 Good Morning Bear!
6/29/14 Mountain Lion Tail (Still attached!)
6/4/14 Young Bull Elk
One-eyed Fox Checking Out Hollow Log
This still photo portrait and the associated video of the one-eyed fox peering into a hollow log was taken by placing one trail camera inside of the log while another trail camera was taking a video of the fox as it approached the log, peered into it and then reacted to the flash.
Bobcat Peering Into Hollow Log
Weasel (Long-tailed weasel) photo taken years ago, high up in the Colorado Rockies with a 35mm camera.
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3/15/14 Bobcat with Squirrel
3/12/14 Bobcat On Hollow Log
This is one of the critters that my game-cam partner and I have been trying to capture since the bears went into hibernation last fall.
1/31/14 Adios Amigos! There's something awesome about watching a bald eagle take to the air. Maybe it's because a full grown one can weigh up to 14 lbs, be 32 inches tall and have an 84 inch wing-span.
1/11/14 A curious fox was checking out the location of my trail cam on this windy morning in January.
12/17/13 A Bald Eagle showed up at the Prairie Dog Diner this morning.
12/15/13
Frozen Prairie Dog.....It's what's for dinner tonight!
11/30/13
"Coyote In The Sky"
11/25/13
The Bear & The Rat
The rat said, "I smell something good to eat", and the bear said, "I smell a rat!"
11/24/13
The Squirrel & The Hawk
If you leave your tail flapping out in the breeze you could lose it or something even worse!
11/22/13
Bear Shredding The Side Of A Hollow Bee Tree To Get At The Honey
All it takes is determination and ordinary parts that all bears come equipped with.
11/22/13
Share Bears....NOT!
11/19/13
Eating can be a lot of work!
11/19/13
When this tree was standing the bears would climb it and try to get the honey, but the beehive was safe inside and inaccessible to a tree climbing bear. When the tree fell down the solid outer part of the tree could not keep the determined bears from tearing into the trunk and eating the hive, bees, and honey. Nothing is going to stop this experienced two time loser (See those ear tags? That's bear bling!) from getting at that honey! The raids will continue after dark every night until every drop of the sweet honey is gone. As long as she stays this far from so called civilization it's not likely that she will have to be put down by the authorities because of the two strikes she has against her.
11/19/13
A young bear gets a taste of honey while nobody is looking.
11/19/13
The bears really hit the jack pot with this bee tree. This is what remains after two or three nights of hard work and sweet rewards!
11/19/13
Bears chewed and clawed their way into the hollow part to gain access to the wild honey in a felled bee tree.
11/18/13
11/13/13
This coon appears to have all parts present and accounted for. It probably knows better than to insult other critters that may have stubby little tails.
11/13/13
Bob-tailed Raccoon
No matter how magnificent you think your tail is NEVER belittle that of a grumpy bob-cat.
11/07/13
This one's not too wild!
11/4/13
Bear 23
11/04/13
Bear 20
11/03/13
Nosy Doe
11/03/13
A small but proud buck passed through shortly after sunrise.
10/28/2013
Salty snacks make you thirsty.
10/28/2013
One bear obscures the view of the surveillance camera while the other grabs the goodies.
10/2/13
I thought that from my vantage point of standing on the running board and leaning over the hinge side of the open door of my truck I could quickly duck back into the truck and shut the door if the bears came too close. Less than five feet is in my judgement, too close for grizzlies, but that's how close the sow and cubs came to where I was standing. In my haste to get back into the truck I took my eye away from the view finder for a second or two. However, the audio portion of the recording while the bears were out of the frame confirms their proximity as they loped across the roadway with their feet pattering and their long sharp claws clattering on the pavement in a cadence similar to that of a galloping horse. That's a sound I will never forget!
9/26/13
Parked at the side of a public road in Alaska in July of 1977, our vantage point for photographing a Grizzly Bear sow that was guarding her cubs as they frolicked in a tidal flat seemed quite safe. I opened the drivers door and stood on the running board of our truck as I shot footage while steadying myself by leaning on the windshield. My wife was seated in the passenger seat shooting pictures out of the open window on her side.
9/22/13
I am often asked if I ever encountered any grizzly bears. Yes, back in the summer of 2007 I had the opportunity to watch a young sow grizzly teach her cubs how to catch spawning salmon during low tide.
9/7/13
We're hoping that this black bear with one blond and one black cub will return in daylight so we can get a better look at them.
9/7/13
Shortly before noon today this dandy Black Bear with a shiny coat came moseying down the draw.
9/6/13
"Later that same day", White Tail Fawn and Doe following bear trail. Do they realize that a mountain lion was lurking around here last week?
9/6/13
Just an ordinary bear, browsing its way up the draw this morning.
9/5/13
A tall bear checked in early this morning.
9/4/13
This mountain lion strolled in front of our camera on the evening of 8/31/13. The tracking collar it is wearing means that "Big Brother" is keeping close tabs on this big cat.
8/30/13
Spleesh Splash I Was Taking A Bath!
8/29/13
If you crank up the volume for the 5 to 35 second range on this video you'll see and hear why it's good to have one of the optional steel housings they make for game cams. Keep watching until the end to get a better look at this rambunctious critter.
8/27/13 - Golden Eagle perched on top of our power pole while enjoying a fresh prairie dog for breakfast.
Go get your own darn prairie dog!
8/13/13
Something just doesn't smell right!
8/08/13
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7/31/13
7/23/13
A welcome but uninvited guest showed up in the Rio Chama near our camp while we were helping my friend Ralph celebrate his birthday.
6/25/2013
Today my neighbor and I drove my 4-wheeler up onto the back part of the ranch west of our places to see what critters might have had their photos taken by the remote game camera we left up there last week. We had placed the camera in an area that was loaded with fresh bear sign. The camera captured one image of a bear as it approached. From there on the bear laid claim to the camera and proceeded to take another 41 self-portraits over a span of about 2 minutes. Most of these were macro-shots of patches of hair on various unidentifiable parts of the bear's body but the bear did manage to take one pretty good close up of its eye; perhaps mistakenly looking the wrong way through the view finder when it released the shutter.
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6/20/2013
I had another moose encounter this week as I was on my way to one of my gigs...
If you gaze into the pond an inverted moose will begin to appear!
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6/18/2013
Today a male Western Tanager caught our eye as my neighbor and I were on our way up to set-up a remote game-scouting camera in hopes of photographing some large predators.
6/16/2013
These two, who are obviously fathers themselves, decided to relax in our yard the afternoon of Father's Day 2013. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6/14/2013
When you have the privilege of working in God's Country as I usually do, the fringe benefits can be as rewarding as the actual gig. Last Friday afternoon turned out to be one of those times as I rounded a corner on a remote county road and came upon a family of moose in the meadow adjacent to the road. The scene initially appeared peaceful until I noticed a very young bull moose stuck in the peat bog.
I rushed to the nearest ranch and quickly recruited some help in getting the poor little guy pulled up out of the muck. By the time we returned to the boggy meadow he had managed to get out all by himself and was contentedly grazing with the others on the far side of the meadow. Fortunately no one ended up with any mad momma moose tracks on their hides and the folks who attended my performance didn't have to tolerate a cowboy singer/picker who looked and smelled like he had very recently been wallowing in the bog with a moose!
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This little guy was fixing to bed down right there by the window of our family room. Why not, he's family too!
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I ran across this big fuzzy critter when I was on my way to one of my gigs a while back, but I'm not saying when or where because some of my music fans say they tend to steer clear of places where big fuzzy critters are known to roam about in broad daylight.
February 2010
There's nothing quite like soaking up a warm sunbeam following a cold, stormy spell.
January 2010
Our grand daughter spotted this bobcat standing just outside our patio door.
