Lauren J.

Squirrel and a walnut :

Opossum

Red fox:

Opossum vs raccoon Personal space required or else:

Without a doubt, our best trail camera capture yet: the first documented observation of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota in modern history. Turn up the volume to hear all the vocalizations. The footage, which was captured on March 25, shows a cougar with 3 large kittens while they feed on a deer they killed just south of Voyageurs National Park. We captured this surreal footage because we started a study to understand the survival and mortality patterns of deer in our area this winter. As part of that work, we GPS-collared several deer in the area in January.  In late March, we received a mortality signal from a GPS-collared deer and found the carcass buried under a pile of leaves on a hillside—a tell tale sign of feline predation.  We suspected it was likely a bobcat but thought, just possibly, it could be a cougar. So we put up two trail cameras on the cached deer carcass and 4 hours later, two cougar kittens returned to the kill. The entire family showed up that evening and spent hours in front of our cameras. In total, we captured 7.3 hr (435 minutes) of video footage of these animals. We will share more footage soon! Huge thanks to the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for supporting the Voyageurs Wolf Project and the recent effort to understand deer survival in the area. Their support was critical to this observation—without it, we would never have captured this footage. And huge thanks to the >10,600 donors who have supported our project and enabled us to purchase trail cameras supplies. The cameras (and batteries, SD cards, mounts) we set at this kill were purchased with funds from donations.

The cubs were in a very playful mood last night!

@urbanfoxwatch Fun to watch.

Neat footage of a black wolf, a fairly rare observation in our area where 98-99% of wolves are gray. We actually collared this wolf (now dubbed Wolf G11E) later in the summer, the first black wolf we ever collared on our project. As we knew when we collared him, G11E was not part of a pack but rather a lone wolf wandering around, which is pretty common for  1-2 year old males like G11E.

@Nesquik1962 @LucyDecker19 @sciuridaely That’s it.

@LJ521 @LucyDecker19 @sciuridaely Lauren, it's more like a rain forest without rain 🤣🤣

@sciuridaely @Nesquik1962 More images of those who live in my yard🙂💕 Hummingbird and Lantana 💕

@urbanfoxwatch Awesome capture with both cams.

Hazel tried to catch a gull this morning! Maybe a bit too ambitious.

What a spot for a trail camera! We put this camera out on a small footpath this winter for the first time just out of curiosity. We do a lot of trial and error to find good spots that wolves like to use often. The little trail is pretty close to the intersection of 3 different pack territories and we figured it might be a good place…and it was. We captured more footage of wolves and other animals on this camera that are not in this video. This video is just the highlights. Most of the other videos are at night. Notably, for every camera like this that gets great footage, we probably have 4 or 5 that are duds…and since they are duds, we don’t share that footage online!

#ChihuahuanDesert today. A very small Western Diamondback rattlesnake; Walkingstick Cholla (Cylindropuntia spinosior); Walkingstick Cholla bud; Tree Cholla (Cylindropuntia imbricata).

Those naughty cubs are obsessed with my cameras and keep trying to chew and play with them!

@urbanfoxwatch Will you offer a stick or a ball as a possible diversion ?

Some photos I've managed to get of the cubs. There's definitely at least 6 still around but they never stop moving so it's hard to keep count!

@urbanfoxwatch Terrific captures. They are welcome in your yard.

Oxford University’s famous commuting cat Isambard Kitten Brunel, known lovingly as Issy, has been stealing hearts for six years. The fluffy Siberian forest cat rides to the library every day on librarian Jamie Fishwick-Ford’s shoulders, complete with a little harness and lead, then curls up in her office at Lady Margaret Hall. Stressed students pop in just to stroke her, bring friends to meet her, and say the gentle purring mascot is the best stress relief on campus. The college even made special outreach stickers featuring her adorable face. A proper little campus legend bringing daily joy to everyone at one of the world’s most famous universities. Too cute.

First proper look at one of Hazel's cubs! This cub is the only one so far to make it close to the garden. He is very bold and keeps wandering off on his own, and I've seen Hazel having to carry him back home. Turn the volume up to hear him whimpering for his mum's attention!

@urbanfoxwatch So cute to hear the murmuring w/Mum