Tree

There are many birches in there, but it's on a tamarack.

This is my lucky week: the theme for this week's Photo Sunday is tree. I've got a few. Thousand. When I drove in the driveway on Sunday I saw the porcupine again but from this side of the house, it was closer. The photo makes it seem as if it is in the woods. It isn't. There is a small field behind the porcupine and the tamarack tree. I zoomed iPhone in as much as possible (10x) and got this shot above. 

You can tell it's on a tamarack by all of the cones.

I went in the house and got my tripod, bug camera and dog and went back to the driveway and settled in for a long photo shoot. That didn't happen. It was too cold and the wind began to blow down the mountainside. I never even set up the tripod. Also, the porcupine did not move. I took over 67 shoots and they are all the same (they only differ in zoomosity). At one point, trying to get the porcupine to move, I yelled, "Hey, porkie! Move a little. Show me your face!" Well, that got Lucy all excited and she ran to the tree and told the porkie the same thing in doggerel. I have learned that porcupines cannot see very well but their hearing and smell are very good. So it obviously ignored us. Kids at school, animals at home, now porcupines in the wild—they all ignore what they don't want to hear.

Same pose, just more zoom.
What looked to me like an eye or nose was simply a cone.

These porcupines are actually becoming boring. They move so little. They behave the same each time I see them. I need to learn more about them to see if I can find something to observe or watch for.

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Noah Clark

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