Went for another ride

HaMeR · January 21, 2011, 01:05:31 PM

Just some pics from the frozen lake here.

The road across the Tappan Dam.

The Spillway gatehouse.

The water rarely freezes on the lake in the causeway tunnels. ~~Barryin~~

Canadien Geese.

Muskrat hut.

Muskrat hut built on an old rotten stump that is just above water level under normal conditions.

Diane seen this setting & once again said "STOP!!" So I did.

But this time she was ready for it.

This pond is about 90yds wide at the widest & a good 250yds long.

Hope you enjoyed!!

pitw · January 21, 2011, 01:38:53 PM

Nice ride

. I see some of them things here

, 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.

HaMeR · January 21, 2011, 02:10:41 PM

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.

Last I knew they checked the Gatehouse twice a day.

There are probably coyote tracks on that bridge too.

Dave · January 21, 2011, 02:27:02 PM

Nice pictures. I especially like the gatehouse one and the bridge-over-the-pond one.

HaMeR · January 21, 2011, 06:46:52 PM

Thanks Dave. I think the bridge pic is cool too. I like the high rise rat hut on the stump too.

Dave · January 21, 2011, 09:36:33 PM

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.

FinsnFur · January 21, 2011, 11:12:57 PM

That looks like spring up here

HaMeR · January 22, 2011, 07:07:02 AM

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.

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.

Hawks Feather · January 22, 2011, 08:55:49 AM

Neat pictures. Do you know why the flag is at half mask? Are there many more of those Black Antlerless Moose around?

Jerry

HaMeR · January 22, 2011, 09:14:32 AM

The flag does appear to be at 1/2 mst but I don't know why.

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.

vvarmitr · January 22, 2011, 09:28:20 AM

Yeah, but you'd do canned ~~beef~~ moose.

Yum, yum!

Okanagan · January 22, 2011, 09:47:41 AM

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.

HaMeR · January 22, 2011, 11:56:41 AM

VV!! I ahve a supplier for moose meat now.

It's a Canada direct supplier.

Thanks Ok!! But I have to admit once again that Diane took the pictures.

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.

Carolina Coyote · January 22, 2011, 12:09:53 PM

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.

cc

HaMeR · January 23, 2011, 07:43:26 AM

@^^^^!!

Tikaani · January 23, 2011, 10:54:44 AM

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