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Minnesota

Fisher and Bobcat Collaring Project

From September 2023 to April 2024, I worked as a wildlife technician with Dr. Michael Joyce’s Mammal Ecology Lab at the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Natural Resources Research Institute. We live-captured, collared, and tracked fishers and bobcats across Minnesota.

Olympic Marten Project

Magazine Publication

Conservation Northwest

Conservation Northwest Video

2nd Edition Guide to Birds in Central New Hampshire

Contributed content to this field guide. This expanded and fully revised edition of Bev Ridgely’s classic work includes updated accounts of the more than 280 species of birds found in the area and includes more than 200 color photographs. This book provides a comprehensive overview of birdlife in the beautiful Squam Lakes Region.

nhnature.org

US Forest Service Woodsy Owl

As part of the Woodsy Owl Junior Rangers program, I was asked to create a presentation about the winter adaptations of wildlife in the Bartlett Experimental Forest, Bartlett, NH.

Woodsy Owl Video

Squam Lakes Conservation Society

Exploratory series showcases the abundance of wildlife on preserves held by the Squam Lakes Conservation Society in Holderness, NH.

SLCS video series
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Ben Wymer

awoodswalk_photography

Wildlife ecologist, photographer, camera trapper, and certified tracker with a primary focus of studying martens and fishers.
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Yesterday, I spent the afternoon and evening doing Yesterday, I spent the afternoon and evening doing photography with @jerrymonkman . We were witness to this beautiful sunset and golden lighting.

#sunset #newhampshire #newhampshirephotography #landscapephotography
Some more images from the marten scent marking log Some more images from the marten scent marking log.

I want you all to take a close look around the marten's eye. Notice the brown fur. This marten is beginning to transition from its winter coat to its summer coat.

#martes #martesamericana #americanmarten #marten #newhampshire #whitemountains #cameratrapping #wildlife #nationalforest #wmnf #camtraptions @camtraptions #wildlifephotography #nikon #awoodswalk
Amidst the tangle of a marten's home, there are sp Amidst the tangle of a marten's home, there are special sites where they communicate. While nearly always solitary, martens use chemical cues, through scent marking, to communicate with their neighbors. From my experience, males mark the most, or perhaps it is easiest to identify how males are marking. Pictured in the second image, you can see how this male rubs the scent glands around his groin across the log, and across the scat that a marten left over a month ago.

#martes #martesamericana #americanmarten #marten #newhampshire #whitemountains #cameratrapping #wildlife #nationalforest #wmnf #camtraptions @camtraptions #wildlifephotography #nikon #awoodswalk
It's been two weeks now since a bear last came thr It's been two weeks now since a bear last came through my camera trap. Since then, I moved my camera setup into a tree to make it more annoying for the bears to access and to try to photograph them back-rubbing. During this lull in the bear activity, a bobcat and moose passed through though.

This is my first time setting my camera off the ground, and after seeing the shots of the bobcat, I think I'll play around with sets like this in the future. I like how much more the bobcat seems to be one with its surroundings. Much to learn though!

For now, I hope you enjoy seeing how drastically smaller bobcats are to moose!

#bobcat #moose #nh #newhampshire #newhampshirephotography #cameratrapping #camtraptions #awoodswalk
This week at the marten marking post, two individu This week at the marten marking post, two individuals passed through. The first was a partially leucistic individual, and this came as quite a shock to me. While American martens (Martes Americana) can have white faces/heads in the winter, the extent to which this individual had white or blonde fur along its neck, fore limbs, back, and tail is quite unique and uncharacteristic. Also, the nose of this marten was not black but lighter, almost purple. 

A few days later a second smaller marten came through. This second individual was more typically colored. Both martens sniffed the log as they passed through, seeming to focus on the scat that a marten had left two weeks ago during the period my camera trap was dead.

Based on the body size difference, and the longer and larger head of the leucistic marten, I think it's reasonable to suspect that the leucistic individual is a male and the smaller marten is a female.

#martens #americanmarten #martes @martesgroup #martesamericana #newhampshire #newhampshirephotography #nh #whitemountains #awoodswalk #wildlifephotography #wildlife #camtraptions #cameratrapping @camtraptions
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