Just prior to the lilacs blossoming, little grey morels started showing themselves. A couple of yellows started emerging now, all well-camoflauged as they are just tall enough to start peeking over the tops of the leaves.
Most finds so far have been on flatter topography, with the ability to receive sunshine all day rather than an extreme hillside with light being blocked for a portion of the day. Surely, soon to start springing up throughout hillsides all directioins week by week.
BREAKING NEWS: Foxes are not Texas-Toast-Deficient!!!
Fox kits!!!! One of the best parts of spring, new baby critters everywhere! These five kits are enjoying a sunny morning as they slowly expand their exploration radius further and futher from the den each day.
This video was taken a few weeks ago, and since the foxes moved from this den as human involvement got too strong. Surely well-intentioned, someone placed human food (Breaded, fried fish and texas toast to be precise) right in the entrance of the den! Please do not hurt wildlife’s tummies and digestive tracts with food that is not designed for them. Please respect their home, the forest. They need to feel safe, and finding human interference right inside the front door of their home is invasion and completely robs them of their peace in what tiny pieces of untouched nature that still stand. Hoping their new den is free of threats, and the five babies can continue their adorable activities as previously programmed.
The December snows have revealed Otter Signs Aplenty! Slides, fishing holes, tracks, marking areas, and holts revealing themselves in the winter wonderland. Though the uncharacteristically balmy, December warmup has literally “dampened” many things, it has only enhances the scents in the air. The river banks that often offer fresh otter tracks and sign on the daily, now also offer a heavier “fishy” scent from their recent nocturnal romps. The melting snow reveals more and more scat and markings (the source of the fishier smell), indicating this river bank as a latrine. An otter latrine is where otters convene, or converge with other otters to communicate between each other socially by means of markings, usually within strong bounds of their home territory.
The Forest Walker 