Ginevive, how do you find your skulls? Last spring a found 7 in about a month and a half or so. That was when I started collecting and I found better results looking near areas that were wet and kind of bog like. Do you have any tips for me and other collectors on this site? I want to go out this weekend and look for the first time this year!
Thanks! im going to go out today and see if I can find something! Its a nice day and I have been waiting to get home from school since I looked outside this morning! I have better results the day after it rains, or if the ground is a little wet. The wetness darkens the debris on the ground and makes better contrast on the skull.
I find them just by walking. I tend to follow ridgelines and gulleys in the woods, also, where things tend to collect. My largest deer shed was found in the bend of a large drainage ditch alongside a corn/alfalfa field. It was sticking partway out of the water (late-summer, low water-level creek) and I just saw that something was "off" where it was. Look for anomalies in the woods and hills around you: stark bones contrasting on the forest floor, etc. It sounds easy, but it really is not; there's what I think of as "easy" finds of bleached bone on green. There are random finds, like a beaver tooth I found randomly in rocks along a creekbed. I did find one of the two larger sheds stuck into the branches of a tree (very strange sight; I was so surprised I remember yelling when I found it!)
One thing that I try not to do, is spend too much time in one area. If I've found a bunch of stuff, I will let an area "rest" for awhile (maybe even a few years) and start up somewhere else. It's great to have a wide network of people that own land, to get permission and search new land. As long as you're safe and don't get lost, it's great. Yet sometimes, you'll find things in an area that you think you've over-hunted.. it is completely random but some things can help your chances, I guess.
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