Where do critters sleep

woodcock

woodcock

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Take for instance racoons. Where do they bed down. I have never came across one in the woods but at dusk, here they come. Crossing roads getting hit by cars. Where do porcipines sleep. I've never seen one except dead on the side of the road. It's a mistery to me.
 
I know a few trees down in TX where we have seen coons come in and out of during deer season so I would go with trees for coons. Down near my dads there's a pin cushion who lives in a culvert that never gets water in it. I'm sure they would crash in an abandon coyote or fox den.
 
porcupines live in trees i think coons do to i dunno the coulee where we hunt i watched one climp up into a bushy tree and almost disappear when we were out deer hunting 5-6 hours ago i was going to shoot him but didnt
 
Raccoons sleep inside cavities such as a hollow tree, hole in the ground, partially plugged culvert pipe, anywhere they can get in and where it is dark.

Porcupines like to get in under rocky ledges where they can. They will also sleep in tree cavities or sometimes way up on the outside of trees.

Humans sleep in beds, on the ground, on couches, in chairs, in cars, in caves, under snow or ice
 
Thanks guys for the replies. I gave up on this one because I did'nt hear back for a while. I thought there was a bioligy moderator on here somewhere. So they sleep in holes and not up in the trees? One time I was squirrle'n with my handgun and I took a shot up. I missed and was waiting for it to reappear when something 30 feet overhead jumped from tree to tree. I never saw what it was. I took a couple of shots at the tops but nothing happened. That got me thinking that they mite be sleeping up in the thick tops of these spruce trees.
 
It depends on terrain if there are alot of woodlots around they will use a hollowed out cavity in a tree If not they will use a woodchuck or badger den unoccupied They even sometimes use old barns either under it or in the loft in a hollowed out cavity in a bail hay
 
Back in Jr. High, myself and a few other pals used to chase around the occasional porcupine (messy little buggars). We used to watch a couple of them doing their thing; erraticating tree limbs and creating masive scat piles, or what ever it is they do. We watched them navigate in and out of an old crumbly irrigation pipe that ran the length of a gully in the foothills where I grew up. They were obviously hardly concerned by our presence. Those fellas never really gave us the time of the day as we made our way by, BB guns in hand. I do remember being quite supprised when some of these porcupines disappeared into some impossibly small orifices, scraping noises could be heard from near the entrence. At least until the creature stopped moving. that was always very interesting to me. I could have sworn there was no way they were ever getting out of some of those small cavities - they always did...

Where do the critters sleep? Most of us will probably never really know. They seem to be pretty good at keeping that information classified.

SLC
 
woodcock,
In your area you'll find the porkies mainly in the evergreens, hems and spruces. This is their source of food, you may have seen them with bark stripped off up high 15" or higher. They will girdle the trees (eat the bark off ) and it kills the trees. The porkies will sleep in the trees that they are feeding in, laying along the crotch's and larger limbs. Have you ever seen thoughs furrows in the snow ( about a foot wide or so) going from one tree to another? Thats a porkies trail.

The girdling of trees is the reason the fisher was brought in to reduce the porkie population in the northeast.

The coons live in hollows of trees and logs mostly if there is no man made structures around. You seen how squirrils will take their cuttings and make big nests in the crotchs of trees, coons will also take up residence in such nest also.

Hope this helps you.

snareman... here in the northeast the bobcat dens up in the same manner as the coons. We dont have a lot of rocky crags and cliffs that are suited for dens, but the ones that we do have they will den up in them but mostly hollowed trees.
 
Thanks for the info, Bud. That was something I had been wondering about. I didn't realize that bobcats stayed in trees like coons do.
 
Wow, Hay Bud thanks a lot for your reply. May I quote you a little to clear up a couple of questions I have?
In your area you'll find the porkies mainly in the evergreens, hems and spruces.
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So your saying there up in the trees eating the bark and sleeping up there?
This is their source of food, you may have seen them with bark stripped off up high 15" or higher
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When you say 15", did you mean feet or they actually do there de-barking down the bottom of the tree?
Yes I have seen those farrows and did'nt have a clue! I had to look up the word girdling to make sure I knew what you mean't. Now I've got a good idea how to find them. You probably know there unprotected in Maine so if I find them there DONE!
 
Twenty-two twofifty, thats a hare i got this fall. there is'nt many around. i go hunting for them pretty much every day trying to find a good spot but thats the only one i got last year.
 


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