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Grey Fox Calling Video – Scouting and Success Go Hand in Hand

Posted September 30, 2009 By Mark Healy and has 2 comments.

A morning trip to scout for mountain lions turned into grey fox filming.  This is a great video of how a fox can be manipulated with a variety of prey sounds and fox vocalizations. 

 

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While in the field recently, I was working my way along a decomposed granite road looking for lion tracks and other lion sign, when I came across the tracks in the photo below:

Fox Tracks on Tire Marks

Fox Tracks on Tire Marks

When I found these fox tracks I noticed right away that they were right on top of a tire track, indicating that they were at least more recent than that tire track. I took some time to evaluate the tire track the fox had walked on and found the tire track was on top of all the other tracks on the road, thus it was from the last vehicle to drive through.  The area is fairly well travelled and my best guess was that the vehicle had passed through the prior evening. 

Realizing that the fox tracks were just a few hours old, I set up my Wildlife Technologies electronic caller in a rocky canyon running adjacent to the roadway. (more…)

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Scouting + Calling = Wildlife Photography Results

Posted September 29, 2009 By Marc Reindell and has 4 comments.

This is part 2 of Chad Messa’s guest post here at Wildlife Callers.  Chad talks about the importance of scouting and using animal calls to get his photos. This information hopefully will help our readers in their own pursuit of that one great wildlife photo shot!  This information also applies to hunting predators as well. 

 

Photographing wildlife is very similar to hunting, although I sometimes have to get closer and be a lot more patient. This is because I have to get more than just one shot of a given animal.

I like to be anywhere from 20 to 30 yards away. This gives me the opportunity to get a good tight photograph of that animal for cover shots. When good action shots are needed I try to stay a little farther away.

 

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The single most important lesson I can give is this, learn about the species you are going to photograph, read all you can about that species before you even attempt to go out and photograph them.

Learn when they are breeding, what their diet consists of, and when they are most active.

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Predator Callers Gather at the Southwest Fur Harvesters’ Rendezvous

Posted September 28, 2009 By Mark Healy and has 2 comments.

The Southwest Fur Harvesters kicked off the 2009-2010 predator calling and fur trapping season with a weekend getaway in Payson, AZ. 

 

One of this year’s event planners and well-known mountain lion caller, Steve Craig, invited me up to the cool pines of Payson for a weekend of wildlife calling seminars, good food, games for the kids, and campfire time with predator hunters from all over the Southwestern U.S.  The event this year was well attended, with more than 100 predator hunters, spouses, and kids on hand.

Southwest Fur Harvesters

Southwest Fur Harvesters

Throughout the day there were presentations from calling and trapping experts.  There were presentations on calling bears, calling coyotes & coyote vocalizations, cage trapping.  The event seminars focused on  responsible fur harvesting and managing fur-bearers as a natural resource.   (more…)

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