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Aggressive Ruffed Grouse

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on October 24, 2019 by Janet PesaturoOctober 24, 2019
aggressive ruffed grouse

If you read this blog regularly you may be starting to think I’m obsessed with ruffed grouse. I promise that I have plans to write about many other species but this has, in fact, been the year of the grouse … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds, Blog | Tagged aggressive grouse, bold grouse, fool hen, friendly grouse, grouse following me, tame grouse, territorial grouse | 53 Replies

Targeting Unique Habitat Features with Trail Camera

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on October 18, 2019 by Janet PesaturoNovember 9, 2021
porcupine on log captured by trail camera

Often when I camera trap I target some kind of animal sign to get a certain species or even a specific behavior. Some examples from past posts are an otter latrine, a bear marking tree, a woodchuck marking a sapling, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Tips, Rodents | Tagged camera placement, habitat features, reading the landscape, trail camera | 7 Replies

Woodland Jumping Mouse Video

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on September 27, 2019 by Janet PesaturoSeptember 27, 2019
woodland jumping mouse

This woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) was captured by my camera targeting a ruffed grouse dust bath in pine-hemlock-hardwood upland forest. It’s my first jumping mouse, so it was a small consolation for failure to get the bird actually dust … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Rodents | Tagged deer mouse, jumping mouse | 6 Replies

Ruffed Grouse Dust Bathing…Almost!

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on September 25, 2019 by Janet PesaturoSeptember 25, 2019
ruffed grouse

Many bird species bathe in “dust” (sand or soil) as part of their plumage preening process. The bird prepares a new spot for dust bathing by scraping a patch of dry, fine, loose soil or sand with its feet to … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds, Blog | Tagged bird bathing, dust bath, preening, ruffed grouse, trail camera, wallow | Leave a reply

Coatis, Ringtails, and Bears, Oh My!

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on September 2, 2019 by Janet PesaturoSeptember 2, 2019
bear crossing log in arizona mountains

As you may have guessed, if you follow this blog, I have been traveling out West quite frequently for the past year since the publication of my first book. The reason is that I’m planning to write a western edition … Continue reading →

Posted in Bears, Blog, Camera Trapping Tips, Raccoons | Tagged arizona, bear, camera trapping, coati, log crossing cam, ringtail, sky islands, trail camera placement | 4 Replies

Grasshopper Mouse Howling: Trail Cam Audio/Video

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 26, 2019 by Janet PesaturoSeptember 8, 2019
grasshopper mouse

Grasshopper mice (Onychomys species) inhabit deserts, shrublands, and grasslands of the western US and Mexico. They look quite like the familiar deermice and house mice, but they have very short tails and their habits are unusual in several ways. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Rodents | Tagged carnivorous mouse, grasshopper mouse calling, howling mouse, killer rodent, onychomys, wolf mouse | 9 Replies

Wildlife in an Arizona Canyon: Video Montage

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 22, 2019 by Janet PesaturoAugust 22, 2019
black bear featured in video montage

This video is a composite of captures from a trail camera that was stationed for eight months in a canyon in southeastern Arizona. In it you will see coati, ringtail, hog-nosed skunk, hooded skunk, black bear (including 2 different sets … Continue reading →

Posted in Bears, Blog | Tagged arizona wildlife, bear, coati, cougar, Huachuca mountains, ringtail, skunk, trail camera | 2 Replies

Moose Feeding Sign with Video

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 9, 2019 by Janet PesaturoAugust 9, 2019
young bull moose in Maine

Moose, Alces alces, consume a wide variety of plants but moose feeding sign on woody plants is most easily identified. During the warmer months they take catkins, buds, and leaves and in winter they consume bark, twigs, and buds from … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Hoofed mammals | Tagged incisor scraping, moose barking, moose browse, moose feeding sign, moose walk over, tracking | 3 Replies

Hummingbird Nectar Thief at Cardinal Flower

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 4, 2019 by Janet PesaturoAugust 4, 2019
hummingbird nectar thief

Hummingbirds are sometimes said to be perfect pollinators of cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis, because the size and shape of the bird’s bill and head match the flower so well that pollination often results when the bird visits flower after flower … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds, Blog | Tagged nectar thief, pollination, ruby-throated hummingbird, stealing nectar | 2 Replies

Hummingbird Pollinating Cardinal Flower on Video

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 1, 2019 by Janet PesaturoAugust 3, 2019
hummingbird pollinating cardinal flower

Hummingbirds provide the critical service of pollination while sipping nectar from the flowers of certain annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, and vines. The ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, is the only species that commonly occurs in Massachusetts, where one of its favorite … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds, Blog | Tagged cardinal flower, hummingbird video, pollination, ruby-throated hummingbird | 8 Replies

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