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Always Carry a Camera, because…

• Lonesome high-rise acorn between two tree trunks. Parked there by a high-rise squirrel or free-falling lodged there on its own?

• This unlucky buck became part of a fall scene long after its death.

• Starkly white mushroom on a fallen tree trunk makes nice color contrast. Tip: Never put the center of interest in the middle of a photo; the photo will appear static and lifeless. A zoom lens will let you get close and keep the focus sharp.

Black Bear Hunting Tips

• First, the bear scarfs up bait scraps on the ground, then pulls the spruce trunk out of the eight-inch hole in the side of the bait barrel, then tries to put its head into the hole to grab some bait but its head won’t fit. A bear whose head won’t fit through an eight-inch hole is a good bear.

• Jim Price, Grand Ledge, MI (left) and Craig Gillengerten, Portland, MI, with their bears, taken on their first bear hunt. Jim’s bear weighed 226 pounds, had a 45” girth, was 67” nose to tail tip, and had a five-inch-wide front paw.Craig’s bear weighed 375 pounds, had a 45” girth, was 76” nose to tail tip and had a 5-1/2-inch-wide front paw. Both bears were mature males.

• When the bear’s back is flush or nearly flush with the top of a 55-gallon barrel, you’re looking at a very good bear.

Fruits … for Deer, for Us

• Crabapples and other fruit trees produce excellent deer feed, especially when you fertilize them a bit. Now is the time to place your orders with a nursery.

Ponds

• Healthy open water, pond or flowing, is essential to good deer habitat, as these tracks show.

Trail Camera

Bucks

• We hope to meet this one in a couple more months.

• November 13…nice buck looking for a lady friend…any lady friend.

Other Species

• When you don’t know who the person is walking in front of your camera, he shouldn’t be there.

Weather

• Storm clouds in the background…full sunlight on the foreground…make a dramatic photo.

Odd & Odder

• Meet Woody Antlerpecker, creation of a deer hunter with a sense of whimsy, a saw, a file and a bottle of glue. It’s a worthy desk ornament. And it cost $10 at an auction.
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