5th February 2010

Fair number of deer moving around, see them daily and the odd bob cat and fox track.  The attached pictures of Eastern Cougar are reportedly from a sighting Hanwell, New Brunswick Jan. 31st 2010.  More like "believe it or not"  :) 

If you zoom on the vehicle plate on one of the photos not shown here, it's not an NB Plate, maybe Ontario or 2009 Iowa Plate.

The last eastern cougar to be killed in Canada was shot near the Quebec-Maine border in 1938, and its remains are at the University of New Brunswick.

For those following cougar sightings have a look at New Brunswick.net writers corner by Barry L. Hatt.

28th January 2010

Watched a bald eagle take on a critter today, muskrat or otter, it was hard to tell but whichever the eagle won. I can safely say a cat or small dog wouldn't have much of a chance.

17th January 2010

Something to get the blood flowing again: - click on picture to enlarge :)

15th January 2010

Note:

We are currently experiencing technical difficulty in up dating our website, rates shown for 2010 are incorrect and should read:

May 1st 2010 - October 31st .......... $135.00 per day
November 1st 2010 - Nov. 30th .... $100.00 per day

The a/m rates are to a max of (4) persons, each additional person $20.00/day

Our rates have remained unchanged for 4 years and have been increased $10 in keeping with rising costs.

Hopefully we will have the technical problems ironed out shortly.
All 2010 clients already booked were advised upon booking.

12th January 2010

Cool outside (-14C) - seeing some critter movement - 1 deer on the river, 2 on the shore line and 3 crossed in front of me while out walking this afternoon also saw bobcat prints following a deer track. For birds we have, chick-a-dees, red poles, American finches, moose birds, blue jays and a few gross beaks, oh and we finally have a squirrel back in the neighbourhood a nice big gray one.

Picked up another cottage booking yesterday.

6th January 2010

Passing the time stocking up the fly box. Attached is my 2010 Fly, not overly practical.

River is frozen, not much game moving other than wild cats and foxes - not a squirrel in sight - a few American Finches and Grosbeaks.

2nd December 2009

Two more bookings today for 2010 - past clients sending new clients our way - we must be doing something right.

The dog had me out for a walk this afternoon and I see lots of fresh deer tracks in the snow with a Bobcat f0llowing them. Talking with a local Ranger yesterday and he advises that the deer population is way down in the area. I don't think that was of any surprise and those that are around are hanging around the populated areas. An article in the paper (Daily Gleaner) today was suggesting a moratorium to bring the numbers back up!

If you have booked and don't see your booking on our website calendar, Google Calendar has been going down recently - it will come back up.

27th November 2009

Click on picture to enlarge.

A mild day with lite rain. Actually saw a salmon laying on the surface yesterday and noticed large deer tracks on the driveway, a bear left it's droppings on my neighbour's steps while the raccoons got into my wife's composter - the night must be alive with critters.

The Olympic Torch went through this morning.

Put the final touches to closing the cottage yesterday. In the spring we will see how good a job we did on the water lines - the proof will be no leaks. We have kept the cottage open year round in the past mostly catering to snowmobilers and a few clients just wanting a country Christmas. The effort didn't justify continuing this practice so we are opting for a more seasonal opening starting in 2010, May through November.

We are getting queries for winter bookings which we are referring and booking the seasonal ones we can handle.

Aaliyah getting dressed for Christmas, Tyler in the torch run :)

22 November 2009

The last day of hunting season and our hunters have all gone home. Poor year for deer, the last two winters have been hard on them and not all that many were seen. Only three (3) bucks taken in the area, all within a mile of the cottage. We did have deer around but mostly does with fawns. A number of our hunters did see moose and some of them had to throw sticks at our raccoons to keep them off the deck. Raccoons we have plenty of.

We had a banner year with lots of great clients, a fair number having already booked returns in 2010. We want to thank every one and look forward to our next season.

The cottage is now closed for renovations until 1st May 2010 and we are going to look forward to taking our vacation now :)

7th November 2009

Weather has been cooling off but with nice days.

Initial reports from hunters, they are not seeing many deer and even fewer partridge. I can report plenty of deer tracks nightly in our gardens and around the apple trees, also some fresh overnight moose tracks. I presume that the deer decided to make themselves scarce during daylight hours after reading this years hunting guide. The birds we can blame on an abundance of coyote, foxes and bob cat.

Our first group of hunters come in tomorrow and we are booked until the end of deer season.