This week we had several visitors on the trail cameras. Keep in mind that one of these cameras has a messed up clock, so the time stamp reads that the video was taken in 2068. These cameras are pretty good technology, but they aren’t that good!
Let’s start small. Here’s a white-footed mouse or a deer mouse:
I can’t tell whether it is a white-footed mouse or a deer mouse, which is hard enough to do in the broad daylight. These animals are in the genus Peromyscus, and although we call them mice, they aren’t closely related to the mice that originated in Old World. New World rats and mice are more closely related to voles, hamsters, and lemmings than to house mice and Norway rats.
Then we got a light-colored opossum:
A good close-up of a melanistic gray squirrel:
And a large raccoon:
Because of the size of the raccoon, I am assuming that this one was a male. He was coming to inspect a pile of sticks and logs that I have anointed with weasel lure.
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