Wildlife Photos from NH Coverts Volunteers

"I've been watching this moose on my Raymond, NH woodlot for 4 years. Three years ago he showed his appreciation for me cutting down cull maple in the winter to feed the deer and moose by leaving a shed antler next to my game camera. I have dozens of game camera photos of him and took a video of him at 20 yards last year. Today I was 9 yards from him. That was a little close for him so he rolled his eyes at me (you can see it in the photo)so I would know to stop. I've got 5 moose on the 400 acre lot and they spend most of the year there. They can be a pain sometimes. I had thinned out some red maples (timber stand improvement) and they ended up eating the bark of the remaining trees making them worthless for lumber. Last month he decided the
tree that my game camera was attached to would be good for rubbing and I found my camera on the ground. Two years in a row he has used the hemlock that my tree farm sign is attached to as a rubbing post and the sign ended up on the ground. I've moved the sign to another tree. One of his cows offspring fell through the ice last winter and provided me with a lot of game camera photos of coyotes having a feast. The moose have actually done more good than harm to the woodlot. The clear cut was coming up to red maple and white pine. It now looks like a Christmas tree plantation. They have eaten all of the low value red maple and left the valuable pine. I have to remember to bring my good camera with me while out in the woods. The Blackberry doesn't take good photos, usually fuzzy. I had a bobcat 11 yards from me in October and the Blackberry said memory full!!
Tomorrow I'm off to Canada for monster bucks. So far the NH monster bucks have not cooperated (but the season isn't over."
- Roscoe Blaisdell (CC97)

Ken Knowlton (CC03) of Belmont sent this photo of a bald eagle (right) taken by Tim Hayes, a neighbor to the Belmont Town Forest, where this eagle was seen perching in fall 2009.

Roscoe Blaisell (CC97) sent in these photos in Nov 2007. Says Roscoe: " While I was hunting in Vermont this weekend, a buck attacked the archery targets on my back lawn. He then had the audacity to poop twice at the scene of the attack. I will get even with that rascal!"

Chris Conrod (CC05) sent in this photo (left). Writes Chris: This is "Jilly," an orphan black bear cub rescued by Tamworth locals in September, 2007. She is with Ben Kilham (CC98) now. He de-wormed her (two quarts of roundworm) and she is putting on weight. NH Fish and Game plans to release her somewhere in the Bearcamp Valley area next year. The photo was supplied by Andrea Kennett."

Also from Chris Conrod: "Here's a wildlife pic you are unlikely to receive from anyone else. It's a red-backed vole. I think red-backs are one of our more adorable-looking rodents but they are a pain to handle in a capture-recapture study. They're very aggressive and have enough loose skin so that even when you grab them tight by the scruff of the neck they can wriggle around and chomp on your fingers. But it still beats handling red squirrels."

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