brad von blon

I love trees and I love saying nice things to bugs. he/him

[brad von blon @campanulacea]

I’m gonna try to start posting on bluesky but it kinda sucks, pretty corny so far. Twitter sucks a little more though. Here’s something to remember me by. Hauling a dead deer out of a local nature preserve today.

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In the autumn, Ruffed Grouse grow these pectinations on the sides of their feet to act as snowshoes, giving their feet more surface area to walk on top of the snow. I made sure to take some creepy photos after one slammed into the side of my house recently

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Free salmon in the woods today

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Got a video a little while back of one marking my camera. Not a super exciting video but volume up right at the beginning to hear it wizz.
https://t.co/ePn9sMe8Pj

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Might have found a good site by accident for bobcat activity right out back of my place, a male has been visiting with some frequency, occasionally marking

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One of the worst hide & seek spots I’ve ever seen

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Dinner’s on me, folks. We’re having shiners cuz I couldn’t catch any chubs

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Got some otters on the trailcam, wait for the big stretch and yawn

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Finally got a couple decent bobcat videos!

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Nice but slightly blurry coyote visiting the camera I put on a recent beaver chew site

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Got more bobcat photos on the trailcam

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Finally finished this tonight. Sucks pretty bad. Hated it.

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@babywasteland I should’ve specified the he was the “dangerously inept” kind of DIY person instead of the good kind

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The heat went out again tonight for the second time in a few months and I’m getting a little too used to firing up the old wood stove. It’s easily the worst stove I’ve ever had to deal with but I think we’re finally coming to understand each other. Still hate its guts tho.

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@babywasteland You’re right! Unfortunately the guy who built it was kind of a DIY hobbyist and put three right-angles in the pipe before it hits the chimney so it’s ridiculously tough to start without smoking out the whole house

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In contrast, here’s me with my favorite stove in the world, 2017. Living alone in the Upper Peninsula with nothing to do but stock wood and eat spaghetti-o’s

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Negative 1 degree Fahrenheit here at home. Started up the ol’ wood stove and smoked out the whole basement in the process. Luckily all my clothes smell like campfire smoke anyway.

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@mixedgrass666 Nice!! Shoot me a dm any time, always happy to advise! A lot of the trailcam stuff is luck but I’ve got some more tricks depending on what you’re looking for

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One of my favorite trailcam photos from years ago. I’d accidentally dialed the camera in a spot where coyotes would look right at it nice & close

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@mixedgrass666 I wish I could give an entire lecture on this topic because I love it so much. Moving the camera around can be great (I do it often) but usually patience is key, as annoying as that sounds. I try to leave my cameras alone for at least 3 weeks at a time

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@mixedgrass666 It’s tough, 80% of the time it’s luck but you’ve got the right idea putting it on a known trail and a creek bed is also a perfect spot for wildlife traffic. Usually I look for existing trails but especially natural choke points/bottlenecks. Treelines are always good for coyotes!