Camera Trap Codger

Adventures in camera trapping and zoology, with frequent flashbacks and blarney of questionable relevance.

Sunday, August 17, 2025

The Starling that Yodeled

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  European Starlings are pretty good mimics, and this short video proves that they do a decent job of imitating coyotes. The location was an...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Back at the coyote den

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Here is a new video about the coyote den in Sierra Valley, taken in the winter and spring of 2023/24. This one had a few surprises. 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Codger encounters Highway Patrol

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       We were driving up the slope from Chico yesterday when I informed my wife that I was going to pull over at the next turn.  "I th...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Happenings at a coyote den

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     Big sister with her mom's brood of nine pups. In the fall of 2022 our foursome of camera trap enthusiasts set a camera at a coyote ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

We found a Wickiup!

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Several years ago we found a strange structure in a large willow thicket in the northern Sierra Nevada. It looked like a derelict wickiup or...
Monday, October 28, 2024

A CAMERA TRAPPER'S COMPANION -- a new book

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  One of the reasons I disappeared a few years ago was to find the time to finish this book. It's been finished for several months now. ...
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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Rocky Flying Squirrel takes on the Acorn Pecker Gang

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  Many years ago the late Robert T Orr told me he had trapped flying squirrels at Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada. "I was trying to tr...
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Native Californian, biologist, wildlife conservation consultant, retired Smithsonian scientist, father of two daughters, grandfather of four. INTJ. Believes nature is infinitely more interesting than shopping malls. Born 100 years too late.
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