Deer butts and mugging, wetland walkies

Here we are try #3.You'll just have to laugh with me! A bitterly cold morning (-25 C.) and they wander like ghosts along the path.
With mentor Justin's help I've been playing around with locations. (Facing north, high-traffic pathway.)


Trailcam 3.0 deer butts from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
Trailcam #3.0 From 0 to -24 C. Jan 12/13, 2015. Deer were quite curious. There were tracks from a weasel all over our property, but nothing on the cam!

Weasel going to and from tree,
my tracks on the left,
Coyote- just beyond the two trees in the middle ground,
going left to right.

I saw many tracks: deer, short-tailed weasel (or ermine ,or stoat-UK), coyote (here is his video), and wild turkeys. Here are some archival photos. My weasel photo is a long-tailed weasel, found in the front yard in Bala, not a short-tailed, but you get the picture. The tracks are all over the property.

My trek following the replacement of the batteries and the SD Card, led me around the swamp where I spotted a woodpecker and a grouse, and heard a pileated woodpecker.

Awful walking, snowshoes don't help. The ground is too uneven, with the ice, and tufts of bulrushes, as well as fallen logs. I step, and fall 9" in spots as the ice gives. It is darn good exercise, however!
One simply cannot walk in a straight line. My GPS batteries gave out, better than the day before, when I went in a circle. I listened for the sound of traffic and followed a deer track out.

Wetland crunchy walk from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
Off into the Wetland for a nice walk and to look for deer sheds.