Because we still have water across our farm lane, it’s up to Bob to drive his tractor down to where our critter cam is set up.
There’s no place for me to ride with Bob unless I sit in the bucket.
Here’s one of our wildlife friends coming across the camera’s view.
The only bad part of checking on the camera is that mosquitoes come after Bob. He says if they were large enough to have their photos taken, they would fill the camera up fast.
Bob and I are big fans of our critter cam. Getting infrared shots at night is great, but some interesting action photos come in the light of day.
Today I’m posting a few actions shots we got over the last few days.
The last action shot is of Bob cutting grass so we can see our wildlife visitors.
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Bob and I took a ride down our farm lane before 8 this morning. It was cool out and buggy. We never expected to see deer. The crops and grasses are getting tall and making it harder to see whitetail.
We saw this doe at the far end of our lane. She watched us for a while, even coming closer.
Eventually, she turned and ran.
Sunny was riding with us and enjoyed the deer sighting, too. It was a good start to our day. Now we are getting ready for another Farmer’s Market in Seymour. Hope to see you there.
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Whenever Bob and I take a ride in our cart to our woods, I grab my camera. It’s a sure thing some interesting wild animal will appear if I forget it on the table.
This first photo I snapped of a doe and fawn from quite a distance. I took a couple of shots, but most were blurry because I moved the camera. It’s not easy keeping the camera steady when the zoom is outstretched.
Besides having my camera with the zoom lens, we set up a critter cam to capture photos of our four-footed neighbors.
When I looked at the photos taken by the critter cam yesterday I found a doe nosing around the area. She seemed to be alone. She stayed in the area for quite some time so we got quite a few shots of her.
My favorite one from yesterday is of a doe with an attitude. The only thing that would have made this photo better is if she had her tongue out.
I have all kinds of nature photos, too many for my laptop, so I’m working at editing out the doubles and blurry shots. This sure takes time so I better get to work or I won’t have room for new photos.
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I continue to look for butterflies whenever I’m outside. They seem to be flitting about our farm a lot. When we were driving the cart toward the woods today, one almost hit me in the face. Lucky for both of us it missed.
Lately, butterflies have not posed for my camera, so I have not been able to take photos of them. Even though I see them, the butterflies are always flying and I am not fast enough to catch them on the wing.
As a child, I chased butterflies and fireflies. I caught the fireflies but never a lively butterfly.
Today’s photos are out of my archive. Enjoy.
I hope to see migrating butterflies again this fall. It was a special gift when they stopped here on the farm in 2018.
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