When spring rolls around I’m always excited to see if past animals will again visit. Sometimes they seem to disappear for seasons on end, especially foxes, coyote, and bobcats. I wonder if they’ve moved to a new territory or perhaps didn’t survive the winter.
So I was quite happy to see Baby Porcupine, who is now a year old, rumbling down the trail and crossing Porcupine Bridge like an old pro. 😊
@alexhaist There is some importantly maintenance that happens. Sometimes the leaves fill up the stream and the water overflows the banks and gets redirected. I don’t think, oh no! my backyard will be flooded, rather oh no! the porcupines’ paws will get wet!
But it’s a happy chore to do. And a happy place to be. 😊
@elliek So I wouldn’t bet my… tea collection, on being right. But it’s not all in the appearance but in other things like time of night it comes, the pace, any distracted looks side to side, even the hunch that some have and others don’t when they walk. The tail is one of the tell tale (🤭) signs.
But the thing I notice most is the way that the cam infrared light reflects back the color and amount of growth in their quills.
(But it could just be that I need to get out of the house more.)
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