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Christopher Mounsey

Feb 24, 2017
1 min

How many wolves pass in two weeks?

We've been playing with trail cameras for nearly four years. And in that time we've recorded wolves on 4 separate occasions. We've spent ...

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Christopher Mounsey

Feb 1, 2017
1 min

Persistent Mr Fox - Part I

Back in summer 2015, we set a trail camera (Ltl Acorn 6210 - Black Flash) looking into some caves. The caves aren't very big, but we'd se...

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Christopher Mounsey

Nov 17, 2016
1 min

Fresh bear prints above the village

One of our favourite walks is an hour's circuit through the old fields at the bottom of Ayios Yermanos, crossing the river on an extremel...

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Christopher Mounsey

Sep 4, 2016
2 min

Wolves and the E6

The imaginatively named 'E6' is a long distance walk from the north of Finland to Turkey. After taking a boat (which seems like cheating)...

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Christopher Mounsey

Aug 27, 2016
1 min

One camera. Four bears

Breaking our record for how many bears can be fit on a trail camera, we were thrilled to discover a mother bear with her three cubs. Came...

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