Timberline: A Skunk

Timberline: A Skunk

(Timberline part 26)

Boys and food and wildlife all seem to attract. Each year we try to help the young men realize that the worst thing they can do at camp is throw food that they don’t want to eat out into the trees. Every year however there always the boys who are smarter than the staff and will do whatever they want despite the outcome. I found that they had indeed invited the local scavengers to camp as I was sitting in my campsite just off the hill from the staff area. I was typing some reports for the camp at my table when I realized I had been visited quite closely. A small skunk ran under my table from behind where I couldn’t see him coming and out the front side where I could. I was glad I had been very still and had not caused the little fellow to be alarmed as I might have ended up smelling a lot like “Flower” in the movie “Bambi”. I grabbed my camera and did get a few pictures of him as he departed my area of the camp and headed toward the food up on the hill.