FIELD NOTES – September 2011
By Jack McShane
It has been my observation lately that deer and turkey numbers here in Bussey Hollow are drastically down as compared to previous years. Having said this I am also getting reports from my buddies in the Tremperskill Hunting and Fishing Club that they are seeing normal numbers in their hollows and hills.
FIELD NOTES – August 2011
Jack recounts an incident with a fatally wounded deer, and shows off photographs from his new trail cam.
FIELD NOTES – July 2011
By Jack McShane
Some weird things happen in the natural world, one being an antlered doe that produced a fawn last year.
FIELD NOTES – June 2011
By Jack McShane
On one of my multiple trips to Margaretville on Route 30 along the Pepacton Reservoir, I spotted a large beaver that had recently been killed lying in the center of the road. On the way back I decided that I would pick it up and place it in the back of the car if it had not yet become part of the road.
FIELD NOTES – May 2011
By Jack McShane
Observing the well-trodden deer trails in the woods with all the tracks going in the same direction, from the lower sections of the hollow to the northern and higher elevations depicting a mass migration from winter seclusion in the “deer yards”’ to the summer ranges, I think of calling it the “march of the ungulates”.