Wildlife Wall Decor

Brett Favre is not only a champion football quarterback, but he is also a lover of animals.  At least it appears that way by the Wrangler advertisement in a magazine I read just recently.  The ad shows a beautiful chocolate lab playing ball with Brett.

See more pet images by visiting Mr. Ed’s website . . . Just click on the underlined keywords, pet images.

To see a nice display of wildlife wall art, visit the Bull Market in Troy, Montana.  A tempting picture of the produce department is in the Field & Stream magazine, September 2008, page 22. 

This reminded me of the many traveling stops we made at a small grocery store in North Bend, Washington, in the 1960’s.  In the Meat Department, on the fresh-wrapped meat counter, they sold “Bird Balls.” In the winter months, wild birds needed food . . . Right?   Well, the market manager created and wrapped two balls of ground-up beef suet (excess beef fat), then rolled them in wild bird seed.  It was a marketing tool for conversation, a merchandising tool for sales of waste products (suet), and a great environmental tool for conservation: feeding the wild birds when their food supply and body energy were needed during cold weather. 

I’m always looking for unique websites that my readers might reap some benefits from.  Here is a great website that has a wide variety of bird houses for many types of wild birds.   BestNest also supplies accessories and feeders for wild birds and other wildlife, including houses for Bats, Bees, Butterflies, Ladybugs, Squirrels, and Toads.  To discover a great website, just do a Google search: http://www.bestnest.com

In the Field & Stream magazine, September 2008, there’s a handbook for hunting Whitetail Deer.  This handbook would be very helpful to young hunters for learning the secrets of hunting deer in different hunting situations.  If I was a young man, I’d be proud to place the picture of the Whitetail Deer that’s pictured on the front page of the handbook on my wall as a part of my wildlife wall art decor.  Since I am no longer a young man, my wife will not allow a magazine picture on our wall.  It doesn’t fit with her wall decorations.  However she does like the Thirstystone tile pictured above and would enjoy it as a part of our wildlife theme.

Here is good news for Salmon fishing in the Seattle Area streams.  When NASA Engineer, Andy Batcho, retired, he saw the need to build a Salmon fish hatchery to help bring back the almost extinct supply of Salmon in the rivers near Seattle.  Congratulations are in order to Andy for his 25-year conservation efforts.  The count of Salmon is growing and has leveled off at 400.  An estimated count in 1920 was 1000 fish.  Thanks to Andy’s team and his dedication for the restoration of wild fish. 

This article is in the Field and Stream magazine, May, 2008, page 41.

It would not surprise me if there were more than one hundred migrating duck species in the world.  While reading the September 2008 issue of Field & Stream magazine, I was very interested in “The Fall Flight Schedule” of seven migrating ducks; “How to Hunt” them and their “Migration Behavior.”  Should this interest some of my hunting and fishing readers, the article is found on page 52.  

Should your heart yearn for beauty, adventure, and the cunning of a rainbow trout swimming in the cool waters of a freestone river, then take a vacation fishing trip to the streams in Northern Idaho.  Chad Mason’s article in the September issue of the Outdoor Life Magazine, pages 48 & 49, took my thoughts back to the many enjoyable camping trips spent in this area.

I lived near the St Joe, Coeur d’Alene, and St Maries Rivers for thirty years.  Hiking, camping, hunting and fishing in the National Forests of North Idaho provide not only food for the family, but also a dwelling sanctuary where the stranger finds peace, solitude, fulfillment, and food for his soul.

You don’t have to be in the wilderness to experience a most magnificent event.  Just turn to page 14 and 15 in the July 2008 Field and Stream magazine, and you will see what a full grown Alaskan Bull Moose looks like just after shedding the velvet from his antlers!  I’m sure you will agree with me that you will witness strength, beauty and the wonderful process of nature in the wild.

Check it out!  Mark Raycroft is the photographer . . .  capturing wildlife images as photographic art.