Saturday, February 4, 2012

Wild Pig or Coyote?
















Recently there has been talk of someone up here in Woodland Valley catching a photo of a feral pig on an infrared critter cam. The cam was on the porch of a house on Woodland Valley Road. It was taken last summer. There has been much discussion of whether or not this is a pig or a coyote with it's ears back. The photo was very dark and worked on in Photoshop to lighten it so you can see the animal better. There is graininess and digital artifacts that sort of look like hair along it's back so don't get fooled.

There was also several reports last summer of a very, very skinny bear (folks said that it was the size and shape of a dog) going around the valley. The guess was that it was a second year cub that had been abandoned by it's mother. People told me that it was the skinniest bear that they ever saw. I think that might be a possible answer.

I posted it so you can all decide for yourselves. It should give everyone something to debate for a while.

The live cam on this porch also caught photos of a deer, a coyote and a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses. I suspect they baited the cam with a heathen to catch those last two. And funny enough, the Jehovah's Witnesses seemed to have the same expression as all the other animals caught in the cam. The element of surprise is so much fun sometimes!