Damn, it's warm there. :biggrinba

There has been a slight thaw today but overnight the temperature is forecast to fall to -5C.

Driving might be tricky on minor untreated roads tomorrow morning.

It pales into insignificance compared to what vast swathes of Canada and the US have been suffering, but it's still a wretched nuisance.

Thursday night I was driving some back country roads in Lancaster county. These roads were built after the farms were there so they follow fence lines and creeks. You'll be going along and the road will suddenly make a 90 degree right or left at the corner of a field, usually blind and often with an elevation change just for fun.

Anyway the truck is telling me the temperature is between 0 and +3 F as I go over hills, it was very disconcerting the roads in places of up to 100 feet long were wet. Wet as in liquid. According to Google, a 20% salt brine will freeze at +2 F. So it was probably more than 20%. The ocean is 3.5%. That can't be good for the flora and fauna.

I noticed some parts of the ADK have eliminated salt completely. Plow and sand...

Mildly related, I once dumped out the water-and-rock-salt slush from the ice cream maker into the grass in the back yard. The spot stayed dead for like 3 years.

Buy Lancaster County bacon, the meat is cured while the hogs are alive!

On the plus side, the roads taste great.

Less filling.:eyebrow:

Did you know Flying Squirrels appear hot pink under ultraviolet light? No you didn't, scientists didn't even know it.

Interesting.

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Giraffe-snotted mid-flight!!

Not gonna be a good day, Tater...

You extend the hand of friendship to all creatures great and small and this is how they repay you...

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Jerk! Get off my grass!

He didn't need it all so he's returning some.

Be glad it ain't your front porch.

Wild fox makes surprise appearance in Philadelphia

Video at the link.

Old news in DC. We need the foxes to eat the rabbits.

Couple of days ago, my good neighbor called to say that she and her husband just saw a coyote chasing a big female deer and her two yearlings across their property, heading for mine. I ran to the window to see what I could see, but they must have veered into the woods, 'cause I didn't see them.

But, the thing is, I'm pretty sure coyotes don't chase down adult deer. I'm assuming it was a wolf. :eek:

Coyotes will do that around here, but, it's not the most common of occurrences.

If yours was a 'yote, he was prolly going after the younger deer.

We have larger coyotes up this way because the migrated across Canada then down through New York and New England picking up some wolf blood along the way.
North Carolina Coyotes played nice-nice with red and gray wolves.
I don't know if the Coyote up in the northwest are sluts too.

https://www.pennlive.com/pa-sportsma...ops_penns.html

The biggest coyote weighed in an organized coyote hunting contest this weekend - the biggest weekend for organized hunts in Pennsylvania - was a huge canine weighing in at 53 pounds.

The huge male coyote topped a field of 193 weighed in by 4,836 hunters registered for the Mosquito Creek Sportsmen's Association coyote hunt, which is the oldest and largest of Pennsylvania's organized hunts. The Venango County coyote won a prize of $9,672 for hunter Michael Galbraith.

According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, adult male coyotes in Pennsylvania weigh 45-55 pounds. They are much larger than their western counterparts because of their genetical mixing with wolves and dogs as they expanded their range to the east.

The second largest coyote weighed in the Mosquito Creek contest was a 48.65-pound male from Tioga County that won $5,803.20 for hunter Tom Sherman. Third place went to a 45.55-pound male from Susquehanna County that won $3,868.80 for hunter Dustin Holl.

True enough Bruce.

There are usually plenty of coyotes around here, although this winter there have been far fewer (I'm basing this on the fact that most winters, I hear the coyotes yipping and howling at least one or two evenings a week - this year; radio silence). Of those I've seen, they're definitely not in the 40-lb range.

According to the paper, there are coyotes in Arlington (corpses hit by cars have been collected) but I haven't seen any.

Foxes, yes. Not uncommon at all.

I'm pretty sure I saw a coyote (from across a big parking lot) in Falls Church a few years back.

Hot time in Toad Town tonight. :eek:

:lol2:

Kangaroo introduces himself to paraglider...

NSFW language.

His tone of voice made that hilarious.

Hahahahaaa!

That was funny.

Skip's thinking, holy shit, we're being invaded by aliens from space! I'll kick his ass!

Hedgehog...

Yard appliance...

Koi pond??

You're gonna need a bigger pond.

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Alaska woman comes home to find lynx blocking door

Video @ the link

Kitteh.

Good boy. You can go now.

Gimme that grocery bag and nobody gets hurt.

Maybe that pussycat is looking for the bird that got in your house...

If you grab a broom and swing for the cheap seats...

This guy had a terrible accident after a hen took a bad fall last night. I hope bad things don't really come in threes.

Go for a ride in the country, did he?:lol2:

Late Saturday evening I shone a torch out of the front window to see what wildlife might be about and was surprised to see a fox cub.

I didn't want to startle it so moved the beam away sharpish which allowed a quick glimpse of the vixen.

I hadn't set up my camera for a few days but thought I'd have a go last night and these two cubs duly presented themselves.

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Awesome.

Do the foxes in your neighborhood scream? Sounds like a woman being murdered.

In a word, yes!

It's absolutely blood curdling and at its worst during January.
I had one scream just outside my window a few weeks ago in the depths of the night.
Frightened the living daylights out of me. :eek:

I set up the camera again last night and I'm slightly concerned that apparently only one cub put in an appearance.

Anyway, this one brought his mum along...

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The camera would appear to be of some interest...

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I wonder if the kit with Mom at 10:30 was the same one alone at 2:30?
By the way, it's chilly there.

That crossed my mind as well.
I know that they are pretty territorial so it's unlikely to be an interloper, but I suppose it's possible that the vixen takes the litter foraging in shifts.

My next door but one neighbour saw a vixen and six cubs enjoying the sun in her back garden in early June last year.
Shortly after that four young ones visited us on a nightly basis for a while.
I assume that they were from the same litter.

Chilly here? No, it's positively sub-tropical. ;)
On Saturday we woke up to quite a sharp frost.

One of the pair from the other night was larger, maybe he snuck out without his little sister last night so Mom had to take her.

10 F warmer here at the same time, predicting 76 F today but still soggy from all the rain.

Last night I put out a little dish of leftovers (chum) in my driveway and captured a skunk, a raccoon, a fox and my kitty cat on my WildView camera.
Very much non-Nat Geo quality.
Is there a fairly simple way put them on this thread?

Yes.

How do you view the images captured by your camera?

If they somehow get to your computer for viewing, it's only a couple easy steps further to post them here.

There are details of course, and I'd be happy to walk you through the process. A private message and a way to contact you would expedite the process.

Sounds like it might be video? If it's still shots then they could be posted like any other picture, and that's pretty easy.

The cam pics can only be viewed on my computer and are auto saved in my Pictures, where I can look at them individually and fool around with them.
It seems that a copy/paste thing like text should work if I can just get them and me all in one place.
Another time or five through the FAQs might help.

If they are on your computer then this should work if they are within size limits. pictures people send me from their phones are usually 3 to 4 feet wide and 5 megabytes and that won't fly.

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Thanks, Bruce. I'll give that a try after I get some chores done.
I had another critter last night and if this works, we can call him xoxoxoPogo.

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Well, sort of.
When my computer stops smoking, I'll try a fox.

Fox, same night:

OK, those to pictures are 22.222 inches wide, knocked down to 12 inches...