Making a Fox Carnival

I’m having all kinds of fun this morning.

I got the four new white-flash 40 megapixel game cameras formatted and working.

As I started to set them up, I stopped, set them aside, and went to the shed for the chainsaw.

There’s been a very rotten widow-maker right at the intersection of four short trails where I feed deer, put out water, and have a chair in the shade.  Time to drop that dead tree in a controlled fashion, and by so doing  create a well-thought out outdoor critter studio.

I cut the tree down so the stump is flat at the top and six feet off the ground.

The next step is to put a put an animated “fur fascinator” up there to draw in fox and maybe a coyote.  I have no doubt it will draw in hawks as well.  When I add a small blue tooth speaker making dead rabbit sounds, and salt the area with kibble, it oughta be a show.  

I find that once you train wild animals to come to a location for the possibility of food, they come all the time hopeful they might get a free dinner. 

Old bacon grease is like crack, but a surprising amount of old breafast and dinner bits are always available and greedily consumed, especially if they have grease, oils, or even a little meat or egg.  Better it goes to the living than the garbage disposal.