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Monday, December 5, 2011

Wolves Kill Wolverine.

 There was blood everywhere on the trail.  At first I thought it must have been a Calf Moose but then on looking closer the intestines were too small.  I found the top and bottom jaw and part of the front skull... all the rest had been eaten.  It was a old female Wolverine.  She got caught right out in the middle of a large alder patch and had no trees to climb.  We would have thought a Wolverine would have been able to hold it's own against a wolf but with 2.... it lost.  There was not a hair left.


 Down on the Inklin River a Common Merganser was fishing in the river.  The current is quite strong but this bird had no trouble.  It would dive down and come up. 


The Wolves also tried to get into the back of the Wolverine box.  They don't like the looks of the front but they sure tried digging into the back.
Came back to camp with 6 Marten from the Walkers' Valley and Inklin Trail.

2 comments:

Art said...

In your comments about overflow I was reminded of a story I read many, many years ago. A local hockey team in Maine competed on a rink on a pond. There was some sort of championship game but there had been wet snow and the rink was covered with water. They dug out ice saws and cut around the entire perimeter of the rink. The ice lifted up and the water drained. They probably had to continue re-cuting but it did work. Now a chainsaw would work much faster but cutting a floating section across your late would be a bit of work. Colder weather will be coming.

George said...

I just wonder how many good licks the woverine got in before they got her. Might just be a couple of wounded wolves wandering around.