Woodland Critters

Norachan

Moderator
Thread starter
Staff Member
Moderator
Joined
May 27, 2013
Messages
34,595
Purraise
36,179
Location
Mount Fuji, Japan
There`s been a new cat in the neighbourhood recently so I`ve had my trail camera out to try and get a better look at him. I thought it might be fun to start a thread of all the other critters that live in the woods.

Please ignore the date and time on the videos. I had it out for a few weeks before I realized I hadn`t reset it. Everything here was recorded over the past month.

First animals to come out every evening are the tanukis, also known as Asian raccoon dogs.




They`re really cute little guys. They are related to dogs, even though they hibernate and live in burrows. I`ve also heard that they form monogamous pairs and mate for life.
 
  • Thread Starter Thread Starter
  • #2

Norachan

Moderator
Thread starter
Staff Member
Moderator
Joined
May 27, 2013
Messages
34,595
Purraise
36,179
Location
Mount Fuji, Japan

mani

Moderator and fervent feline fan
Staff Member
Moderator
Joined
Feb 28, 2012
Messages
49,242
Purraise
27,362
Location
Australia
Tanuki are really cute.. they all are!

I think the fox must have been born that way.. you wouln't think s/he would have lived after an injury like that. Or do you have wildlife carers who may have fixed her up and put her back?
 

Margot Lane

Kitten at heart, not a Top Cat
Top Cat
Joined
Oct 24, 2021
Messages
5,425
Purraise
11,643
IMG_1525.jpeg
Bobcat? Bear? Not as exciting as movies, but maybe someone here is a tracker. I also have cams but I get a LOT of moths, who do wonderful dancing jigs! I think it’s to evade the bats whizzing past. There is also one spider, who goes tap tap tapping down the drainpipe blindly every night, then up again come morn. Banana slugs on a cam look gargantuan, as if they’ll eat my house! 😂
 
  • Thread Starter Thread Starter
  • #6

Norachan

Moderator
Thread starter
Staff Member
Moderator
Joined
May 27, 2013
Messages
34,595
Purraise
36,179
Location
Mount Fuji, Japan
I think the fox must have been born that way.. you wouln't think s/he would have lived after an injury like that. Or do you have wildlife carers who may have fixed her up and put her back?
I think if someone had rescued her they would have probably kept her, or sent her to one of those Fox Villages they have here.

Guide to Visiting Zao Fox Village - Miyagi

The wound seems too neat and clean to have healed that way by itself. I think she was born three legged
 

DeesCats

TCS Member
Staff Member
Forum Helper
Joined
Jul 21, 2023
Messages
1,005
Purraise
2,381
Location
Northeast Ohio
I love the videos especially the tanukis and the fox.

I was surprised by the racoon, then did a quick search and found that they are North American racoons that got loose and are causing problems in Japan as well as other countries where they aren't indigenous.
 

catapault

TCS Member
Top Cat
Joined
Oct 5, 2010
Messages
3,903
Purraise
10,482
My images of raccoon and opossum are rather poor - they show up at night and the security light is not exactly what my camera would prefer.

But! I have daylight images of smaller creatures, taken through the years.

Chipmunk_2015-06_standing chipmunk.jpg
A chipmunk, with cheek pouches well stuffed with bird seed

NYBG Other_2022-11_black squirrel.jpg
A black squirrel at the New York Botanical Garden
Flying Squirrel_2008-11_at home.jpg
Flying squirrels in a bluebird house. My neighbor
showed them off to visitors so frequently that they left.​
 

infamous-weirdo

TCS Member
Adult Cat
Joined
Dec 7, 2024
Messages
117
Purraise
567
Norachan Norachan I love your videos, as a nature nerd I find them to be so cool and interesting! Especially the tanuki, as we don't get those around here, I loved seeing them! Thank you for sharing!

C catapault your photos are amazing, that black squirrel is so cool! Wonderful photo of a chipmunk too, they can be hard to capture on camera! And the flying squirrels are so cute, I'm sorry that they left though.

I love getting photos of animals, here are some of mine:
A turkey vulture:
1000035175.jpg

an eastern cottontail rabbit:
1000025311.jpg

A wild turkey:
1000020980.jpg
1000020978.jpg

Whitetail deer:
1000010779.jpg

A blurry photo of a hooded skunk:
1000009543.jpg

A raccoon print:
1000005179.jpg

A five-lined skink:
3623.jpg

A black vulture:
3365.jpg

A spotted turtle:
2859.jpg

A black rat snake:
2661.jpg

A fox:
1960.jpg

And a not so great photo of an eastern coyote, bigger and more wolflike than the western coyote:
1000063842.jpg
 
  • Thread Starter Thread Starter
  • #13

Norachan

Moderator
Thread starter
Staff Member
Moderator
Joined
May 27, 2013
Messages
34,595
Purraise
36,179
Location
Mount Fuji, Japan
I was surprised by the racoon, then did a quick search and found that they are North American racoons that got loose and are causing problems in Japan as well as other countries where they aren't indigenous.
There was a craze to have them as pets in the 70s, but when they started trashing things in the house a lot of people took them into the woods and released them. They do very well here, as the climate is very similar to what they are used to and there are no predators. They even have urban raccoons in Tokyo now.
I love getting photos of animals, here are some of mine:
Nice pictures! We have little skinks very similar to yours.

A few more shots of Mr and Mrs Tanuki being adorable. They`re about the same size as Pomeranians. It`s easy to see why they`re so popular in Japanese folklore.


 

mani

Moderator and fervent feline fan
Staff Member
Moderator
Joined
Feb 28, 2012
Messages
49,242
Purraise
27,362
Location
Australia
Top