Monday, February 4, 2019

Lynx move on snowshoe hares

I wondered when lynx would discover the abundant snowshoe hare population on our property this winter. The trail camera pics are from yesterday.
Hares are virtually the only prey of lynx.
These two animals follow a wild 11-year cycle that has been documented for hundreds of years by the fur trade and undoubtedly for millennia by First Nations.
Why 11 years? There is an 11-year solar cycle too. This fluctuation in solar intensity also created cycles in forest fire destruction; however, I believe climate change has now upended that schedule. The worst fire season now is always just the previous year.

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