What sort of mammals, amphibians, and invertebrates are you encountering during your outings in the Mount Washington Valley? Is a moose frequenting an area near you? Have you seen martens or minks in your travels? Share your sightings with other inquiring minds.
Please include what you saw, where you saw it, and when the sighting (or sightings) occurred.
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We saw bobcat tracks in the field below the Rockwell House while snowshoeing on the Tin Mountain property in Jackson. This was on February 8th.
We saw a mink coming out of a wetland on the East Conway Road. It came up on the road and turned around before heading back into the wetland. We had a nice long look at it. It looked quite healthy and beautiful!
Nice trip to the Kilkenny area of the WMNF on the York Pond Trail on Sat , March 6th. Good mink tracks and slides, grouse tracks, lots of moose tracks in deep snow, and much moose barking on red maple and stiped maple tree trunks.
Fisher in Center Conway
Saw a river otter munching down on a trout while he was lounging on the ice on the Jackson town pond. Big guy.
Wood frogs are quacking. Heard the first ones a week ago in a pool in Chatham. They are active in the vernal pools at Tin Mountain. Several have been seen on the roads on et nights.
Hiking at the Tin Mountain Bear Loop trail we saw some very fresh Moose scat, a couple of Canadian Geese and something swimming in the pond..
Dan and Juliana,we haven't had Canada geese on the pond this year until your sighting. Last week we had a pair of wood ducks and a pair of hooded mergansers. We hope they nest is the duck boxes. Fresh moose scat is also encouraging. I had two moose sightings in Chatham this weekend and a coyote in Chatham this morning. A bear hit my compost and a tiny bit of seed in my feeder. Things are starting to move.
A few days ago I saw a BIG woodchuck at the bottom of our field. It stretched up a wide tree trunk - very sleek. Will it be a big woodchuck summer again?
Last Saturday, several students in the herbarium class came across a black bear in a tree on the Maple Leaf Trail.
June 7 observed a black bear cub crossing on Bald Hill Road just above the water tank. The cub crossed onto the Tin Mountain property, after waiting a minute another cub emerged from the woods and crossed the street no further than four feet in front of me. Both appeared healthy.
Mother moose and a calf down by the Saco river in the Brownfield Bog yesterday.
Last week, one of our neighbors here on Chase Hill saw and photographed an American marten high in a pitch pine tree. Also, many bear sightings, including one on a Tin Mountain trip on the Sanctuary.
Last week, one of our neighbors here on Chase Hill saw and photographed an American marten high in a pitch pine tree. Also, many bear sightings, including one on a Tin Mountain trip on the Sanctuary.
This morning, one of the interns was doing bird transects and spotted a bear on the north side of Bald Hill Road (in the mountain-laurel). Another intern saw a moose in the road earlier this week. Lot's of activity despite the high temperatures.
loud baby critters under my house...but only rabbit tracks!
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