Porcupine help requested
 

So I need help with a porcupine. I've gone out at different times hoping to catch him out but no luck so far. I tromped around the area several times and just can't find him. All the chewed on trees are at the fields edge, and there seems to be more and more daily.

So my question is, when do they normally come out to feed?

Are you looking up?lol

Yes :rolleye2:

They're mostly nocturnal, feeding at night. We have a few around our area as well, and I seldom see them. Their tracks in the snow are distinctive (they plow a furrow in soft snow with paw prints that look like small fists were driven in the snow). So, if you find a fresh set, it might be worth your time to follow it. They do move slow. If the tracks stop, look up. In the winter, however, they won't be up in the trees as often, more likely burrowed into soft snow.

Of the dozen or so that I dispatched over the last fifty years, most of them have been in the late afternoon.

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Sleep either in a tree or brushpile/culvert etc.Usually urine trails all over the snow.

This....they'll be spending the day in brushpiles.

Thanks gentleman.

We have noticed tracks into culverts over the winter the last 2 years. It took me a while to figure out what the tracks were.

I’ve seen and a shot a few over the years mid day they cruise fields when it’s -30 or colder

soak a piece of plywood in brine. screw some bells onto it and hang it from a tree so its dangling a few inches from the ground. Porky is most active at night. Bells ring when he starts munching. hear bells, Wake up, wack porky with a big stick, go back to bed. Works well.