As summer ended it was time to check the card in the camera trap in the hollow. The latter half of July was extremely dry as was the entire month of August. Nonetheless, there was a good variety of wildlife appearing in the videos –
The second buck has what are called cutaneous fibromas on its face that appear as dark lumps. These fibromas are cause by a virus and don’t actually injure the deer, nor does the virus affect other mammals, including humans.
It’s quite possible that the screech owl caught one of the flying squirrels and made a meal of it. Although barred owls frequently prey on flying squirrels, it’s not unheard of for screech owls to do the same.
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There will be no more videos from the running log. I’d moved the camera further from the log where it captured several short videos of deer, and then …
… and then the landowner sold timber from part of the property and the loggers opened up the old road spanned by the running log to use as a skid trail –
Good-bye running log, you were a good place for a trail camera.