Oodles of moosels

[wildWoman]

So far, there's an endless string of moose visitors this winter. Always cows, with calves or without. About every second day a couple are coming through the property. Yesterday, Supermom and her twins came by, feeding leisurely in the meadow. I finally went and took some pictures, should be a few really nice shots. This morning, I saw them again down on shore when I went to get water. Good job on protecting her calves so far, see if they can make it through the winter.
A couple days ago, two adult cows came by, one very pretty in hues of cinnamon with dark tipped fur creating a sort of halo effect on her. They're funny when they travel together as adults, it always looks like they're in constant argument over where to go. One will head out one way, the other standing and looking, then going a bit of a different way. Then the first one will turn around, stop and stand, continue on a bit in her preferred direction. Doesn't look very harmoniuous.
Makes it all a bit harder with the dogs, I have to keep a sharp eye and ear on them and do a sweep of the property in the mornings to establish the moose situation.
In my quest to tell the moose apart, I think their bell might be the best way to identify individuals.

[wareagle69]

if you shoot an e-mail off to vince creighton he might be able to give you the best suggestion on telling meese apart, unfortounatley we found a poached moose the other day and now someone is night time shooting at i assume deer so we have an ambush set up to see ifn we can catch them

[wildWoman]

Could you pm me Vince's email address?
Oh that woud would get me so mad, the poached moose...wish you guys success with your ambush.
We'll be paying very close attention here to the skidooers once the lakes are frozen. Somebody was illegally trapping wolves here last winter, unfortunately the CO we got new last year is a complete loser and it took us until break-up to verify that the people whose trapline it is and who haven't been trapping for ages were not the ones who set the snares and did not authorize anyone. So we'll take the appropriate action should that retard show up again this winter.

[wareagle69]

let me see ifn i can remember where i put it, it might be in the book we both have or if you go to the website i mentioned to you before i think i remember it being there, but i will see if i can find it, linda has it filed somewhere and she is at her moms this weekend, hows your alone ness coming along?

[wildWoman]

Getting into the groove now...spreading my messiness in utter abandon throughout the cabin, enjoying very quiet evenings by reading or writing uninterrupted, talking with the raven (doing very well, will stop feeding him tomorrow) and the moose, and my mind is beginning to do its isolation thing...going off on a tangent and chewing on one thought/idea for hours at a time. Soon all I have in my head will be "snow moose...ice sun ermine...moose moose...snow trees moose...ice voles", at which point phone conversations with friends will become somewhat surrealistic :)