Yesterday was a “work day” deep in the Greenwood Boreal Forest Bog. I wanted to set up and drop off my BirdNET-Pi birdsong listening device, and tweak locations/settings of my four trailcams. Given it had been two weeks since I had hiked into this wilderness area, I also swapped out simm cards. Oh my … make sure you watch the two videos of Poppa Moose! He has now moved into the area which is not surprising given all the females and the impending rut.  I have seen 8 moose in person over the summer but Poppa is much bigger than the males I have seen. One cool aside, I met the US Forest Service Ranger / Biologist with responsibility for this region. Given his research priorities and my personal focuses upon Greenwood, this is a nice meetup!

• Poppa Moose Video #1 for blog email subscribers
• Poppa Moose Video #2 for blog email subscribers

One fun aspect of the morning was having this Broad-Winged Hawk hunt near me for about 15 minutes while I was hiking into the bog. I have watched this family of hawks since late spring. Note the amount of color in the leaves already. Fall is well underway and this hawk will migrate south real soon.