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Two porcupines in a tree

Posted by Eudora Watson,
North Country explorer from Syracuse, New York
April 23, 2014 —

Porcupine season starts for me when I spot this distinctive profile against the sky. I've seen porcupines, at dawn and dusk, in various -always slender branched - trees - in this area, but never two in a tree.

Comments

Erika Barthelmess

Hi Eudora,
Thanks for sharing this! I study porcupines and we have a tree we called the "mother of all den trees" that sometimes had as many as 4 porkies in it. The tree was a huge basswood, and finally collapsed last summer.

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