Friday, June 3, 2011

Yard Wildlife

I bought a wildlife camera (GameSpy) in April and got some pictures, but forgot to post them as promised.  Since Iza ran into the groundhog (which was caught in a live trap) recently, I remembered the GameSpy pictures.

There is more wildlife living under my toolshed than I thought!  The shed is a foot above ground level, so there is lots of room underneath.

Some of the pictures don't come out very well.  I need to read about the autoflash feature more carefully.   This is a rabbit.
Here is the groundhog that I knew I had there, emerging from the entrance.
 Here is the best picture I got of it.
Seeing a possum emerge from the same hole surprised me!
The groundhog emerged again soon after.

I'm sure they don't share the same burrow, but they do share the access hole to below the shed floor.  The possum probably just sleeps in a corner under the shed.  I have most of the rest of the shed access blocked by boards.  But apparently the groundhog also tunneled through the compost bin.  I surprised it once and it dove in there and vanished.

1 comment:

The Adventures of Scarlett and Melly said...

Cool pictures! My parents have a garden shed in their backyard, and the space underneath it has been home to groundhogs, rabbits, feral cats, and skunks. Baby skunks are the cutest :)

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