Steve Pollick: A surprise mink sighting joins a chorus of wildlife on the Ohio homestead this winter

As I write this, the coming of the full Moon of February, known to some Native American tribes as the Hunger Moon for this deep-winter season of want, is just a few days away and it has predators afoot and aloft searching for prey meals.
Red fox and coyotes, the latter including a whopper-size male that must go 50 pounds, have been tripping my trail cam shutters in Froggy Bottom with seasonal regularity. Great horned owls sound off about 3 or 4 a.m. nightly, these flying tigers swooping the bottom silently, ready to sink deadly talons into a nocturnally browsing bunny.

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