More cute animals than you can shake a log at.

February 28, 2020 5:23 PM

A webcam setup at a log on a creek in rural PA picks up years worth of fuzzy creatures wandering across the log. The long anticipated sequel, The Log 2: Another Year has even more including a very inquisitive bobcat.
posted by octothorpe (23 comments total)

lotsa bear butts in that feed. bare bear butts.
posted by logicpunk at 5:52 PM on February 28, 2020 [4 favorites]

The owls are not what they seem.
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:54 PM on February 28, 2020 [4 favorites]

Very cute! Bears are the doofuses of nature, and I love them.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 5:55 PM on February 28, 2020 [2 favorites]

I needed this.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:02 PM on February 28, 2020 [4 favorites]

This was the perfect palate cleanser after multiple episodes of Love is Blind.
posted by HeroZero at 6:10 PM on February 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

Delightful, thank you.
posted by MonkeyToes at 6:18 PM on February 28, 2020

Well, that's wonderful. I loved the beavers, being so sneaky underwater.

What were the long-tailed smallish critters? Not possums, not beavers, too small for fishers.
posted by suelac at 6:19 PM on February 28, 2020

suelac: I saw a few muskrats in there; is that what you're referring to?
posted by Johnny Assay at 6:49 PM on February 28, 2020 [2 favorites]

My only gripe is that it wasn't presented chronologically. Jumping between sessions was jarring to the point I started watching the date counter at the bottom.
posted by emjaybee at 6:51 PM on February 28, 2020 [8 favorites]

There were also a few minks in the first video, if that's the one you were watching.
posted by Johnny Assay at 6:55 PM on February 28, 2020

Well, that's wonderful. I loved the beavers, being so sneaky underwater.

The oak branch swimming upstream at 2:39 in the first video?
posted by jon1270 at 7:02 PM on February 28, 2020 [6 favorites]

it's better than bad!
posted by scruss at 7:20 PM on February 28, 2020 [7 favorites]

Muskrats, yeah, that's what they are.

I'm in California now, and (so far as I know) we don't have them here.

This was charming.
posted by suelac at 7:24 PM on February 28, 2020

Just a mere mention of the word "muskrat" sets off The Captain And Tennille in my head. Dammit!
posted by hippybear at 7:32 PM on February 28, 2020 [3 favorites]

Given how many times we saw the bear's butt, I'm kinda wishing he'd put the camera on the other end of the log.
posted by martin q blank at 7:51 PM on February 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

The word muskrat sets off Deputy Dawg in my head.
posted by MtDewd at 7:54 PM on February 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

it's better than bad!

All kids love Log!

That squirrel that jumped on top of the camera in the first video. Woah.
posted by JHarris at 12:33 AM on February 29, 2020 [4 favorites]

Kitty claw the log!!! Kitty!
posted by amanda at 3:44 AM on February 29, 2020 [4 favorites]

How this did not conclude in a jug band Christmas I will never know.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:35 AM on February 29, 2020 [13 favorites]

Bears are the doofuses of nature

Bears are phylogenetically close to canids, I looked up once. So maybe they should be seen as big dogs trying to operate humanoid bodies.
posted by little onion at 8:56 AM on February 29, 2020 [1 favorite]

Black Bear really should have gotten top billing in Log 2. They definitely had the most screen time. Raccoon, must have a good agent.
posted by brookeb at 10:36 AM on February 29, 2020

I'm also not used to seeing raccoons with a non-square aspect ratio. Our ones produce tummy-drag tracks in the snow.
posted by scruss at 11:20 AM on February 29, 2020 [2 favorites]

These are great, thank you.
posted by LobsterMitten at 2:19 PM on February 29, 2020 [1 favorite]