There’s not too much going on at our County house in February, mostly lots of snow and sitting around the fire. Although I have put in our Veseys order and had a great time at Carson Arthur‘s seminar on Vegetable Planning!

But at night our “back yard” seems to be a literal coyote highway! During the day we see a lot of tracks, but it’s great to capture what’s going on with our Nature Watch camera.

Here’s a daytime photo of the camera position. It’s back in the marsh area and a couple hundred feet away from the garage and house I think.

We were pretty excited to see two Coyotes as it’s the first time we’ve captured more than one in a video. We don’t have sound in the camera but from their body language we can see that they are calling to each other.

But for the first time we’ve seen other critters too. For sure there was a raccoon, and we also think the second photo here is of a fox – check out the tail, what do you think?

It was pretty cool to see our lame Coyote is still around. He doesn’t look like he’s lost any weight, and it doesn’t look like he’s being picked on.

This is my favourite series of photos. Its from a video that was a full 30 seconds, so it was too big to include. As a set up, this Coyote found a trail of something. You will see it jumps up really high, then pounces. And when he digs his nose into the snow, we’re assuming it was probably a mouse.

So it’s been a busy February, and even some pretty heavy snow storms doesn’t seem to slow our Coyote friends down!