Cougar photos

OK, I’m wrong. Cougar do sometimes use human trails.  And here’s the proof. Caught on my trail camera…

More Cougars with some Wolves thrown in

I’ve said it before and I’ll write it again:  animals present themselves to you, not the other way around.  And for the last six months, cougars are what have been presenting themselves to me to learn about. If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve seen that cougars have been constantly coming into my awareness now [...]

Wolves, cougars, and the little woods

There is so much wildlife activity in the little piece of woods and meadows next to my home that I don’t need to venture much farther than ‘around the block’.  Sometimes just sitting on my front patio is enough. Besides the nesting bluebirds and house wrens, the red-tailed hawk making its’ rounds, and the pair [...]

Cougar Town

Somehow it just works this way.  I dream up an animal I want to study and know more about, then decide to try and track it.  But it just doesn’t work as I plan.  This winter it was martens, yet I didn’t see one track.  But instead of the animal I had in mind, another [...]

Mountain Lions, Pumas, and Cougars

I’ve just finished a read that really got me thinking.  The book, The Beast in the Garden by David Baron, I bought from Jim Halfpenny.  That’s because Jim is featured prominently in the story as an independent tracker and researcher who forewarned of the dangers that were coming. In detective style, Baron weaves the true [...]