Dipper Ranch

The first time a bobcat goes by the camera in this time period is November 12 near first light.    A few days after I posted the Puma Sc...

Puma delicately poses on huge paws at the Dipper Ranch night of October 4, 2015.    When I lived in Florida, we called them panthers. ...

California slender salamander. Tiny but if you look, they are ubiquitous in even the smallest of damp locations. Robert Stebbins found tha...

This striped skunk has walked by this wildlife camera many times and ignored it. For some reason on this particular night, the striped skunk...

Arrggh, that sinking feeling when I open up my Bushnell HD Trophy trail camera and the date says January 1, 2013. It's not January an...

Mountain beaver (a.k.a. aplodontia) is one of the unusual mammals you get to practice camera trapping on at this workshop in the Sierra Ne...

Bold white stripes framed by a pert beanie cap on one end and a fluffy white and black tail on the other end = striped skunk   When we...

Not much grows on a scree slope Photo by randomtruth .   Part 3: are you still with me? Still thinking backwards? This is my favorite p...

The bushy-tailed woodrat leaving its den in the scree slope at night.   We climbed the side of a mountain at Yuba Pass, found the sought...

A bushy-tailed woodrat eating mystery food in the Sierras. This photo was adjusted for exposure and sharpness.   A scree slope seems ...

A brush rabbit in a willow thicket at dusk. Photo taken with Moultrie M100 trail camera and post-processed (cropped, exposure and contras...

A grey fox smiling at a tasty meal or the Flehman response? While I was away at a workshop in the Sierras, the mice did play. And so did...

A mountain lion journeys along the old stage coach road. When Naiad and I returned to the house after our afternoon of tracking at the e...

To find a raccoon, be a raccoon  "We could go to the end of the road," I prompted Naiad, trying to keep her moving and distrac...

Hot day on the Coyote Brush Highway for a coyote pup. The game was up.  With their keen noses and my sensitive skin, I didn't expect...