A couple weeks ago, I got a trail camera with night vision. I wanted to see what the animals were up to along our back fence, and also thought it would be fun to place it on animal trails when camping.
The camera straps onto a tree or other object and is triggered by motion. At night, it uses infrared imagery, and during the day it is a regular camera. It can take stills and video. In operation, it makes no sound, and has no flash or lights - very stealthy! The night quality varies quite a bit, so I'm working on fine tuning placement and settings.
For the first 10 days or so, I only got a picture of a rat and a cat, then last night things began to happen. Below are pictures showing the chronology of events.
6:46 p.m. possum
9:03 p.m. cat
9:18 p.m. different cat and pair of eyes staring through fence.
9:24 p.m. coyote.
Coyote one second later.
1:37 a.m. two raccoons. They look like a mother and a youngster.
Can't wait to capture a mountain lion slinking down a desert wash - maybe next week, ha!
3 comments:
That's cool, Bob. I love that kind of stuff.
How fun!!!! I loved seeing those coyotes run through! The cats are funny, too....I didn't notice the eyes thru the fence til you pointed them out!
This may be the last know photo of the neighborhood grey cat - we've not seen him since and those coyotes do look well fed. Reminds us to keep an eye out for Penelope and Yummy D!
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