I took Major out to the little cabin this morning (Dec. 9) to pick up trail camera cards and so he could get a bit of exercise. I saw more turkeys in one trip around the farm than I saw deer in the entire nineday firearm deer season. There were 13 turkeys in the south cornfield and 15 in the north.
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This has not been a normal fall at the little cabin. Our Airedale, Major, has had another round of significant health issues.
At 10-1⁄2 years of age, anything can happen, as dog people know. In mid-October, Major suddenly began shrieking, and I do mean shrieking, in pain whenever he tried to lie down. This became constant crying, whining, and panting. He was carrying his left hind leg.
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“Which nest box do you think will be the first one to be occupied?” asked my husband, Stan.
“When do you think the new tenants will arrive?” texted our daughter, Shannon.
“Will any owls show up at all?” This was my unexpressed thought.
These were the pertinent questions circulating among the little cabin crew after a whole day of barred owl nest box installation.
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The rapid approach of the firearm deer season in Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 22, has me taking stock of my freezer. We went into the holiday season last year with two antelope, one whitetail, assorted packages of wild turkey, pheasants, ducks, bison and walleye in the freezer. Today, things are looking thin.
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One of the first columns that I wrote for Wisconsin Outdoor News in 2020 was called The Boys of Summer. It was about the trail camera fun we have at the little cabin.
Through the years, readers have met some of the notable bucks that have posed for our cameras and for the cameras of our neighbor, Matt Kranz. We share these photos on a text thread we call The Deer Report.
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“I have been researching Johnny Appleseed,” I told my husband, Stan, excitedly a few days ago. He looked at me quizzically but said nothing. Having survived a relationship that is well north of 50 years, he knew that I was going to share my latest bits of Google wisdom, whether he inquired or not.
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As my readers know, the little cabin is nothing fancy. It is a small, one room, few amenities structure in the woods in Portage County. Its best features are its front porch, a magnificent woodstove, and the 123 acres of forest and wildlife that surround it.
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“We are going to do a combination of ground fishing and shark fishing,” I told anyone who would listen, as the summer field trip for the Duck’s Unlimited (DU) Conservation Programs Committee (CPC) approached.
As I wrote in my last column, we were headed to Maine for a two-day meeting. Dr. Karen Waldrop, DU’s chief conservation officer, Jessica Tyler, DU’s manager of conservation projects, and I decided to stay another day after the meeting to go fishing.
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“The researchers at the marsh have just captured two fledgling saltmarsh sparrows,” Dr. Karen Waldrop, Ducks Unlimited (DU) chief conservation officer shared via the public address system on the bus. “We need you to file quickly, but safely, off the bus and onto the marsh. If we can do this by the time the students finish their measurements, we will get to see the birds before they release them.”
I volunteer as senior vice-president for conservation for DU. This means I chair the DU Conservation Programs Committee (CPC).
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