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adam
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01/03/2008 09:18PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)

It is time to start the January 2008 Photo contest.

The theme for this month's contest is "Wildlife". Post your best photos that were captured of wildlife in the bwca/quetico region.

Monthly Category: BWCA and Quetico Wildlife

Remember 1 entry per person please. This helps us vote accurately.

Rules:
- You must be signed in as a member with a valid email address in your profile to enter (or win).
- You can only enter one photo per monthly contest. You can enter the same photo if it did not win in a previous month.
- You must be the photographer of the photo.
- Photos are entered in the contest by making a reply posting to this message and using the "Add a photo to this message" link during composition. This will allow you to upload a photo from your computer to the contest or allow you to select a photo which you have already loaded into your photo gallery on this site. If you want to enter your photo in another way, please contact us.
- Please describe in the message where the picture is from.
- Judging will be done by the www.bwca.com staff and moderators.
- A member may win once per year.
- Photos must be posted to this message by 11:59pm on Jan. 31st.

- Photos must be in jpg or gif format to be uploaded to the site. Contact me if you have something in a different format or are having problems uploading to the site.

Thank you for participating!

Adam

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01/03/2008 09:30PM  
Bald Eagle on Wood Lake - August 2007

 
thecanoeman
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01/04/2008 01:02AM  
Otter playing at our campsite on Iron Lake - July 07

Nice photo snakecharmer.
 
Obergut
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01/04/2008 06:15AM  
Camel Lake, Quetico 06/07
 
mr.barley
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01/04/2008 06:31AM  
Nesting loon on Jordan Lake 2007. She posed for dozens of photos for us.
 
airmorse
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01/04/2008 06:56AM  
Eugene lake 2006
 
Beemer01
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01/04/2008 08:14AM  


Entered on behalf of an associate - Kunal Mehta.
 
01/04/2008 08:30AM  
Frog on Jordan Lake (if you look close you can see my reflection in the frogs eye)
 
01/04/2008 09:26AM  
Dixie (my service dog) and her "catch" :-)
 
Portage Monkey
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01/04/2008 10:07AM  
Turtle ona log. Ensign Lake.
 
Journeyman
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01/04/2008 11:00AM  


Meadows lake portage
 
01/04/2008 11:37AM  
A gartner snake enjoys a frog lunch in a firegrate rock pile on Hustler Lake.
 
01/04/2008 03:52PM  
Another firepit rockpile dweller...the boys said hi and then found him a cooler rock pile. Pocket Lake, June 07
 
ShimmieShakes
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01/04/2008 04:57PM  

Taken July 12, 2005 on Crooked Lake (in between Wednesday and Thursday Bay). This crazy bird know as the Gray Jay, or Campfire Thief, lived up to its name when it infiltrated our campsite with no fear! It stole a pita right out of my hand, and ate out of my mess kit (show here) as I was sitting right in front of it!
 
HighPlainsDrifter
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01/04/2008 05:23PM  
Chipmunk on leg (preferred peanuts in trail mix), Isabella River
 
troutchief
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01/04/2008 05:42PM  
Bald Eagle on Iron - May '07
 
01/04/2008 07:27PM  
White tail buck on the Horse River, September 2006.
 
01/04/2008 10:17PM  

Bears, cougars, wolves, no be scared of the snakes.
Lake insula july 2004
 
01/05/2008 01:29AM  
Wow way too many good entries this time around. I love the frog MP.

LT, you aren't going to post the picture of the Loch Ness monster again? (jk)
 
backpacking5
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01/05/2008 05:32AM  


Horse River 2007
 
01/05/2008 01:21PM  

Bull Moose on Cache Lake (Northwest point of Insula)
 
woodpecker
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01/06/2008 10:19AM  
This guy is a "real" fisherman....Disappointment July 27, 2007



Woodpecker


(I have a series of this little guy catching the fish...)
 
knothead180
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01/06/2008 10:34AM  
Heron skull, Fishdance Lake, 2007
 
mr.barley
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01/06/2008 02:46PM  
I'm pretty sure what you have here is infact a loon skull. I found a whole loon skeleton on an island some years ago and you'd be surprised how big their skulls are. Also, a Blue Heron has a yellow beak. Very cool find regardless what it is.
 
01/06/2008 03:25PM  


Slim Lake, May 2007.

butthead
 
kellyrth
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01/06/2008 03:35PM  
Canoed past this deer on the Nina Moose river in early July of 2007
 
01/06/2008 06:51PM  
No stubs, that was one of the fun enteries.
In a few minutes as soon as I upload it I'll edit the photo of the skin from that snake.
 
01/06/2008 07:35PM  
On Moosecamp Lake Sept. 2007.

 
01/07/2008 07:22PM  
Little guy stayed by my tent for the two days we were on La Croix.
 
01/07/2008 07:54PM  
nice pic LCD.
 
knothead180
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01/07/2008 09:31PM  
Thanks for the correction Mr. Barley. The bill color should have been obvious to me. I guess I made an assumption based on the apparent size.
 
01/08/2008 10:30AM  
First time posting a photo here--this lonn nesting on Fourtown Lake was on a tiny island near the outlet to Horse Lake, on a very hot day.
 
L.B.F.Girl
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01/08/2008 01:40PM  
Black bears in our backyard....not quite in the boundary waters but near the edge {ely}!!
 
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01/10/2008 09:09PM  
Hudson Lake - July 2007
 
01/13/2008 06:32AM  
This mink with the help of a snapping turtle helped himself with six walleyes we had sat aside for dinner.
 
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01/14/2008 08:28AM  
 
CIIcanoe
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01/14/2008 08:41AM  
Spruce Grouse at my campsite on the Isabella River in the morning of 09-16-07.

Chuck
 
01/14/2008 10:35AM  
Nesting loon on Lake Saganaga - June 2007
 
DeterminedOrange
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01/14/2008 12:40PM  
Loons on Sawbill, June 2007.

 
Jay
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01/14/2008 04:29PM  
Spider, Isabella July 2007
 
johanismyvzual57
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01/14/2008 07:08PM  
 
johanismyvzual57
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01/14/2008 07:08PM  


Sunrise on Seagull.
 
JRUBAKON
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01/15/2008 12:44PM  
This eagle got free lunch from us in Back Bay!
 
nlawvere
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01/15/2008 08:03PM  
 
boomshiky
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01/16/2008 09:24AM  
 
01/17/2008 06:48AM  
Busy beaver on Gaskin Lake, 2001.
 
01/17/2008 07:11AM  
Nice one of the beaver! :)

I remember a solo trip once in the 80's on Sarah Lake where as I slept in my hammock I heard a beaver dragging branches near my site during the night. Every once in a while I'd get the big KER-PLUNK splash. :)
 
01/17/2008 09:06AM  
Nice photo Spartan!
 
01/17/2008 02:33PM  
Thanks.

At the campsite on Gaskin Lake our tent was very close to the edge of a small cliff-like dropoff, and you could actually look out the tent window and see the water. There were two beavers who appeared to be beginning to build some sort of structure under the water, so they made many, many trips back and forth from somewhere on (or behind) the island offshore and this location. We watched them off and on for two days, as this was a layover day for us. It is the closest I have ever been to beavers working, and certainly the only time I have ever gotten to photograph them in good daylight. When I would hear them coming I would drop everything and go stand on the shore to watch in fascination. I have several nice photos, but this one is my favorite. I wish I had had my digital SLR back then.

It was great fun. Of our many trips, this one was probably the best.
 
quetico152
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01/17/2008 11:18PM  


"Jim the Bear" on Friday Bay. 10th. day of Hunter Island Loop 2006.

p.s. thats the remainder of our food...
 
wildernesswebb
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01/18/2008 12:40PM  
The biggest, yet smallest menace to BWCAW food packs!
 
smokingmeat67
  
01/18/2008 01:36PM  
Emma watching the minnows on her first BWCA trip
 
cowboymac12
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01/18/2008 01:45PM  


A resident pine marten on Marabeouf Lake. We named him Eddie. He stole my wife's hiking boot, and while we retrieved it, he circled back to the food pack. Clever.
 
wildernesswebb
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01/18/2008 01:59PM  
Love that Pine Marten. I've seen two before, but never got the chance to take a pic. WW
 
01/18/2008 03:00PM  
Mossyback on Boulder River during June,2007.
 
greenydd
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01/18/2008 07:36PM  
not exactly in the bwca...isabella area tho.
 
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01/22/2008 12:39PM  

Wolf--Dog-- Coyote ??


saw this guy on Moose Lake,spring of 06 in the evening.
the Scout Camp was just a few minutes away so i thought it might
be a dog..looks sort of small for a wolf--brush wolf maybe?? the shot is a 105 tele from the canoe..he was close and saw me but did not run untill i turned to get another photo
 
01/22/2008 02:13PM  
maybe a young wolf
 
01/22/2008 08:19PM  
 
01/22/2008 08:27PM  
an oldie but a goodie.
 
01/22/2008 09:15PM  
Carcass on S. Hegman Lake
 
Maddog
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01/22/2008 10:25PM  
pp,

wild "life".

lol

MD

 
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01/22/2008 10:42PM  


Settled down for a long winter nap.
 
01/23/2008 07:13PM  
Kurps--that is priceless!
Maddog--the deer was just really, really hungry... =)
 
wolf4980
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01/23/2008 07:31PM  
hidden grouse
 
Kurps
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01/24/2008 01:12AM  
the juxtaposition between life an death. tis a very fine line we all must walk.



I do declare. I may have become too serious for this forum.
 
cericdahl
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01/28/2008 08:25PM  
Hanson - South Arm Knife portage
I wish my camera had greater depth of focus, but I still think this guy (gal?) is pretty cool lookin'
 
01/28/2008 08:37PM  
"Take me to your leader"

 
brain250
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01/29/2008 01:35AM  
Toad keeping guard at a Winchell Lake site 7/07.
 
cowboymac12
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01/29/2008 09:33AM  
Those toads are great. My wife and I camped on Birch Lake a few years ago, and there was this incessant noise we couldn't locate. We thought it was a branch in the breeze, or a bird we could not spot. We finally determined it was coming from under the tent. I lifted the pad up, and sure enough, there was a big frog huddled under the tent's footprint. We might have easily squashed it. Fortunately, we released it, for the most part unharmed.
 
01/29/2008 05:51PM  


Gabro Lake, 2006
 
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01/29/2008 08:19PM  
 
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01/30/2008 08:46AM  
Frog Lunch on Kawishiwi River - August 2006

 
timberwolf
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02/04/2008 06:13PM  
Seen this big guy on the Echo trail close to Hegman lake portage.
 
adam
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02/11/2008 07:34PM  


The winner of the January photo contest is Mr. Barley! Many times the bridesmaid..

Congratulations!

The second hat giveaway goes to quetico152.

The trip report contest goes to mwd1976!

Thank you everyone for entering.
 
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