It’s like Wild Kingdom up there. This visitor appears to be a coyote, seems kinda skinny for a wolf, but I’m no biologist……

Same bear? Maybe, maybe not….looks kinda small. But the game camera picked up these shots last  night, just seven hours after Id been standing right there.

Am I worried? Not really. Black bears can, under certain conditions, be dangerous but so can any other animal. They are also not as notoriously hard to kill as a grizzly. My 10mm or AK ought to be just fine for this sort of thing. Just gotta keep my eyes open and exercise some common sense when it comes to having lunch up there.

Finally…..some elk!

Well, they said the surveyors would be out to day and it looks like they were.

And they even noticed the camera.

As mentioned earlier two of the four corners are marked with some somewhat-official markers – a recent modern marker, and another corner has the original cap from the General Land Office in 1915. THe surveyour-boss emailed me to say that the other two are the ones theyre going to have to ‘calculate’. Since the property lines run N-S and E-W. I cant imagine it would be anymore difficult than a) go to known corner b) travel XXX yards in a straight line on the compass bearing. Where you stop is your corner. But, what do I know……..

And that wasnt the only visitor today. The local fox came by and appears to have brought a lunch with him….

He’s baaaaaack…..
ETA: Actually…might be a coyote…..

ETA: Looks like there were enough posts to finally get the tag “Beta Site” into the tag cloud on the right.

Looks like the fox is out looking for a late night snack….

As long as he keeps eating the rodents and stays outta my way we’ll get along just fine.

A bit blustery, foggy, and snowy at the Beta Site. Whatever I build there will have to be built with this sort of environ in mind.

As someone pointed out to me, I need to put a yardstick of some kind out there to give me metrics about about how deep the snow is.