Just some pics from the frozen lake here.
The road across the Tappan Dam.
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The Spillway gatehouse.
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The water rarely freezes on the lake in the causeway tunnels. Barryin :doh2: :laf: :laf: Canadien Geese.
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Muskrat hut.
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Muskrat hut built on an old rotten stump that is just above water level under normal conditions.
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Diane seen this setting & once again said "STOP!!" So I did. :biggrin: But this time she was ready for it. :shrug:
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This pond is about 90yds wide at the widest & a good 250yds long.
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Hope you enjoyed!! :biggrin:
Nice ride :bowingsmilie:. I see some of them things here :wink:, them geese can stay there for a spell yet. Is someone in the gate house all day? I'd call coyotes off the bait pile I had 120yds away if it were my job. :innocentwhistle:
Those damn geese are everywhere Barry. They don't even go South for the winter anymore. Wish we could shoot em like groundhogs around here. :biggrin:
Last I knew they checked the Gatehouse twice a day. :shrug: There are probably coyote tracks on that bridge too.
Nice pictures. I especially like the gatehouse one and the bridge-over-the-pond one.
Thanks Dave. I think the bridge pic is cool too. I like the high rise rat hut on the stump too. :laf:
Yeah, that's a good pic, too. I never knew what they were til a few years back. They're all over the place down on the Jersey salt flats. I used to trap em, too, as a kid. But all w/conibears on creek banks.
That looks like spring up here :yoyo:
There must be 40 huts on the shallow end of the lake. We only got a few pics of them. I thought that one was the coolest. :laf:
I bet it does Jim!! Just add another 3-4" on top & you'll be up to speed with what those pics look like now. It's -1 this AM & I can tell ya this much,, those pics aint getting updated this weekend. :nono: :nono:
Neat pictures. Do you know why the flag is at half mask? Are there many more of those Black Antlerless Moose around?
Jerry
The flag does appear to be at 1/2 mst but I don't know why. :shrug: We have those Black moose everywhere you look around here Jerry. The darned pastures are literally overrun in some areas. I think if the farmers would drop the fences they could get rid of a bunch in the winter as they would head south. As it it now tho they can't jump the fences so they get trapped in. Personally I wouldn't hut them that way. I don't do canned hunts. :noway:
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Yeah, but you'd do canned beef moose.
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Yum, yum! :biggrin:
Great pics! Hamer, that high rise muskrat hut built on top of a stump is the most fascinating to me. The stump must be hollow, and the rat put a roof on it. Smart muskrat.
:nono: VV!! I ahve a supplier for moose meat now. :yoyo: :yoyo: It's a Canada direct supplier. :biggrin:
Thanks Ok!! But I have to admit once again that Diane took the pictures. :biggrin: I thought the same thing about the tree stump hut & how all the other rats are going around looking for a stump to call their own now after having dinner & drinks in that one. :laf: :laf:
Down on the Eastern Shore of Maryland they call Muskrats,( Muskrabbits ) and now I think I know why because they live in a Highrise and jump into them. :laf: :laf: cc
:laf: :laf: @^^^^!!
Great pictures Glenn, I enjoyed the ones of the muskrat dens. They were the first animals I ever trapped as a young man. Also like the bridge, nothing like that up here.
John