We borrowed a game camera. This camera takes a picture once a minute when it detects movement. You can imagine how fun it was to was to flip through 1000 picture of calves, because apparently they move all the time! We did get a good laugh from my 5 year old nephew. He didn't know we had a a camera set up. We got a full frontal picture of him going pee. He was so close, i'm surprised he didn't hit the camera!
After a few nights we got a picture of something. It was a dark rounded animal. It had it's head in a bucket, and we couldn't see it's tail. (I wish I hadn't erased the picture). I thought it could be a opossum, but Mark thought it had too dark of fur. We were telling Leo about it. He says someone told him they saw a wolverine near by. We had no idea what a wolverine was, so of course we googled it! It is the most vicious form of weasel. Now, we really wanted to catch that on camera! We keep watching, morning & night.
Then we came into the barn & the calf that had the bloody tail a few days earlier, was bleeding again! It was back, and we couldn't get done chores quick enough. We were sure we were going to solve the mystery of the tail eating animal. You'll never guess, what it was....the other calves. They were sucking on each others tails until they were bleeding. Mark said he had told me nothing was eating their tails. I guess he was right, but we still had something getting into our barn.
We finally figured it out the next night.
First we saw this:
Can you see the dark creature in front of the calves?
Than we saw this:
See the little face in the bottom right corner.
I was right it was a opossum., I was right about something! Farming is so unpredictable. Seriously, you just can't make this stuff up!
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