Our Moose of Beaver Bog

Our moose has returned

Last summer we had a female moose in residence in the bog that we saw regularly three times a day for weeks. She appears to be back, bigger than ever. I don't know how to identify individual mooses, but animals usually return to spots that they have enjoyed in the past. So I say this is her. You can judge for yourself by clicking here and comparing.

Here, she is munching cat tails.

The moose is in her "molt," so she looks pretty scruffy and three-toned. But soon she'll be looking fine and will only have two tones.

She doesn't like her photo being taken

This is a cross-post from meeyauw's Photo A Day blog (where the photos are larger).

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A Jumping Moose

This young bull moose was gallivanting all over Barton Village last week. Then he decided to come up here. He crossed the road from our land on the mountain side of the road and went through the beaver bog to the woods on the other side. He is probably now around May Pond or Willoughby Lake. These photos were taken on a sunny morning through the glass of the sun porch windows.

I am most proud of the photo below showing the moose jumping a stream in the bog. There was no skill involved in this, just pure luck. I'm glad the moose came by during John's first week here because no "outside people" believe me about the number of moose in the area (the NEK is over-populated with moose).

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Moose

I think it is a young bull. He came down my driveway, crossed the road and wandered over the beaver bog. You can see how tall the grass is and how deep the water is. When Amy took the dogs for their walk this morning they wanted to smell the moose tracks for quite a long, long time.

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Cross-posted from Barton Daily Photo.

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