On the Hunt

Since Derek has had access to a hunting property, he was able to place some trail cameras out there.  Any time he goes out to the lease, he switches the SD cards in the camera and bring the cards from the cameras home to check.  Finding out what creatures got their photo taken is an exciting moment at our house!

With the exception of a couple cameras that didn't catch as many creatures, there have been some great deer, some hogs, opossums, squirrels, raccoons, coyotes and bobcats.  These guys are mostly on the lookout for deer, but a hog would be food in the freezer too.

Speaking of hogs...  

one of the cameras caught a series of shots of this guy climbing up to a feeder.

He got his snout far enough up in it to bend it and cause all the corn to dump out at once.

All over his head!  The boys, big and small, got a good laugh out of this!

Oklahoma's youth firearm season found Cooper sitting in a double tree stand next to Daddy for a weekend.  This is Coop's first time as a hunter, not just a spectator. 

One of the days they were out in the woods, the rest of us walked to the park.

Well, I walked.  Miles took his LED xcooter and Owen flew down the sidewalk on his balance bike.

Bikes and scooters were forgotten once we arrived at the playground drainage ditch.

And you know Miles, his hunt was a successful one pretty quickly!

I honestly don't know how he sees these little creatures, let alone catches them!

The crayfish were small that day.

But that still brings a smile to Miles' face.

Owen likes to look too, but isn't as quick at snagging them yet.

So we left Miles to his creatures...

And went to swing.

Then headed for the playground.

A little puzzling.

A little sliding.

And thanks to someone leaving a basketball, a little hoops.

Meanwhile, Miles found "The cutest crawdad ever!".

Since I had finished the coffee I was drinking, he talked me into using the cup to take the little guy home in...  #boymom 

(I may never drink from this mug again. Mostly because of the drainage ditch water.  I'd probably eat a crayfish! ha!)

Miles set up a habitat for his new friend and fed him some mosquito larva.
(Which he'd already been raising on the back patio.)

Sadly, by the time Cooper got home that night, one of the rocks Miles placed in the creature keeper had fallen on top of the crayfish and smashed him.  Oops. I guess we'll be hunting again another day.