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Marty’s photo of the day #4767: I spotted this adult antlion yesterday while I was out walking my dog, Nellie. When it landed on a dead branch it practically disappeared. It’s about an inch-and-a-half long. (Photographed on the Essen Wildlife Refuge, Montana)
Last Week at the Essen Wildlife Refuge: In the summer, there is so much action that I usually post the previous week’s motion-sensing camera photos every Sunday. This week, my cameras produced a few distant elk and wild turkeys and lots and lots of deer. So instead of variety, I’m featuring four shots of the […]
Last Week at the Essen Wildlife Refuge: My motion-sensing cameras caught the first bear of the spring. Also, a healthy-looking fox at night and two curious deer. I’m still hoping to get a clear bigfoot photo to show you, but once again he turned out blurry. Perhaps next week.
Marty’s photo of the day #4714: Everything blooming at the Essen Wildlife Refuge. So, for the next few days, we’ll take a tour. Okay, these are fungi, not flowers. We’ll call it “fungi-ing.”
Marty’s photo of the day #4713: Everything is in bloom at the Essen Wildlife Refuge. So, for the next few days, we’ll take a tour. This is grape hyacinth (pretty, but not native to Montana).
Marty’s photo of the day #4712: Everything is in bloom at the Essen Wildlife Refuge. So, for the next few days, we’ll take a tour. This is Oregon grape.
Marty’s photo of the day #4711: Everything is in bloom at the Essen Wildlife Refuge. So, for the next few days, we’ll take a tour. These are serviceberries.
Marty’s photo of the day #4710: Everything is in bloom at the Essen Wildlife Refuge. So, for the next few days, we’ll take a tour. This is arrowleaf balsamroot.
Marty’s photo of the day #4709: We have everything at the Essen Wildlife Refuge, including an extremely rare two-headed elk . . . and a bigfoot. Of course, a bigfoot!
I’m typing this with an icepack duct taped to my shoulder. Deb and I have lived in the middle of th,e Essen Wildlife Refuge for 29 years, and it wasn’t until 2 years ago that a moose charged us (the one in this picture). At least that moose gave us enough notice to dive out […]
Spring is here, and that means the nighttime activity is wild at the Essen Wildlife Refuge in Montana. My motion-sensing cameras switch to infrared mode at night, hence the lack of color. The photos from this week: mountain lion, coyote, racoons, fox, deer, bigfoot.
Marty’s photo of the day #4674: Wild turkeys galore! Photographed with a motion-sensing camera at the Essen Wildlife Refuge, Montana.
Marty’s photo of the day #4668: I’ve often wished that I could “speak dog” to tell Nellie about the dangers of being queen of the Essen Wildlife Refuge. She never goes outside alone but still managed to tree this mountain lion last night. Fortunately, the mountain lion also agrees that Nellie is queen.
Every night, Deb and I take our dog, Nellie, on a walk around the perimeter of the Essen Wildlife Refuge. This evening, she was off-leash and started barking at something—and her bark was more protective than usual. I put her on a leash and investigated, expecting to find a moose or racoon. Instead, she had […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4661: This is Martha, the official moose of the Essen Wildlife Refuge. Today’s photo is from a few years back, but the first moose of the new year have arrived. So far, all I’ve seen are tracks in the snow. I’m always amazed at how moose can hang around the […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4654: The motion-sensing camera shots last week at the Essen Wildlife Refuge included nighttime images of foxes, coyotes, and bigfoots, and daytime images of deer. Since no one wants a nighttime bigfoot photo, let’s go with the deer.
Marty’s photo of the day #4582: This is a hairy woodpecker, photographed at the Essen Wildlife Refuge in Montana.
Marty’s photo of the day #4577: Yesterday, I took my dog, Nellie, out for her morning security sweep of the Essen Wildlife Refuge. We followed some shrieking crows to this great gray owl. I hurried back to the house for my camera and captured this image moments before it flew away.
