[From the Catch of the Day email message of October 26, 2015.]

Today, my trail cameras in the Mount Last-Upper Powers Creek area produced only pictures of hunters and hikers.With so much human activity in the woods, it seems that the wild animals are laying low. But when I visited the camera at the little marsh, where I often get pictures of moose, I had a pleasant surprise.

 A muskrat swam away from me as I approached the forested shoreline.

Then a second muskrat appeared, swimming toward me. It seemed not to have noticed me, and climbed up on a bit of solid ground, where it began eating some kind of green vegetation. At the distance, about 85 metres, I could not tell what it ate.

The attached are a sampling of the approximately 40 pictures that I took, all at near full zoom. Before I left the marsh I had seen four or five different muskrats, all actively swimming about and feeding. Muskrats are not often see in our area, as we do not have much of their suitable habitat--marshes and slowly-flowing streams.