Trail Camera

[JEBar]

our property has a long border with a stand of woods .... housing developments are shrinking the wooded areas and farms around us which is reducing the available wildlife habitat .... often when Maureen takes her Shih Tzu out after dark she clearly senses something in the woods that makes her very apprehensive .... who knows, it may be a squirrel but that's just the point .... we know that foxes, coyotes, deer, feral cats, squirrels and a host of other critters frequent those woods .... our hope is a trail camera may be able to let us figure out what she's concerned about so, we've ordered a " VOOPEAK Trail Camera Solar Powered 46MP 4K 30FPS, WiFi Bluetooth Game Camera" --- [urlhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BVDTLVHK/re ... UTF8&psc=1][/url].... looking forward to its arrival later today and figuring out how to make it work

[BrokenolMarine]

We have four spaced around the property to keep an "eye" on things. You'll likely be amazed at what you see.

[JEBar]

looking forward to finding out

[Vaquero]

I saw an interesting post on FB a few weeks ago.
Seems a person put a Christmas tree out in the woods in front a game camera.
Got some pretty cool pics.
I have a few out on the farm I hunt.

RP

[HenryFan]

Domestic cat is reported to be the most common prey of urban coyotes. If they are comfortable living in a city, then certainly near residences and businesses in suburban and rural locations.

Don't hesitate to shoot a coyote.

[The Wiz]

Domestic cat is reported to be the most common prey of urban coyotes. If they are comfortable living in a city, then certainly near residences and businesses in suburban and rural locations.

Don't hesitate to shoot a coyote.

For you guys out on eastern N.C. coastal area , make sure it is a coyote and not an Eastern Red Wolf. They look about the same but with the Red is about 10% bigger and of course they are redish verses brown. There are only 20 to 30 left and they only exist in eastern NC.

[Vaquero]

Domestic cat is reported to be the most common prey of urban coyotes. If they are comfortable living in a city, then certainly near residences and businesses in suburban and rural locations.

Don't hesitate to shoot a coyote.

Speaking of cats vs coyotes.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=sea ... s%20coyote

RP

[Mags]

Another Video
https://www.valleynewslive.com/2024/01/ ... te-attack/

[rickhem]

I started off with two trail cameras. Put them out near where I hunt to see what's around and when. Then bought two more, and had one set up as a kind of a security measure, to see who and when an access trail was being used. A friend with a nice piece of property and I were talking about them, and his comment was that they can be addicting. I think he was right. I now have 11 total at different places around my property. Mine are all battery powered chip units, I don't have any cell service ones, at least not yet. I can hop on the quad, or in a SxS, and make my loop to swap out the chips in about 45 to 60 minutes. My GF likes when I connect my laptop to the flat screen TV, and we review the pictures on that. It's interesting to see what's going on in different areas of the property, and especially for seeing what is happening at night. We get a lot of coyote pictures, and they seem to space themselves out when they're roaming around. A single camera will get two or three in a single 20 second clip, then another in the next clip, and another or two in the clips after that. I've also, through sheer luck, placed cameras near licking branches, and those give a real good cross section of the bucks walking around. It's amazing how nocturnal they stay, yet how regularly they visit these locations.

[JEBar]

the good news is, the game camera arrived and appears to be a most impressive unit .... the not go good news is, following the instructions I was able to insert a micro SD card and figured out how to install 4 AA backup power batteries .... from there, the instructions quickly few right over my head .... I've called our youngest son and his 16 year old son to come by and finish the startup .

[Mags]

the good news is, the game camera arrived and appears to be a most impressive unit ....

This might be a camera I'd be interested in. Most interesting features to me are the solar powered and WiFi picture/video file transfer. Please continue to share how this camera works out you.

[JEBar]

This might be a camera I'd be interested in. Most interesting features to me are the solar powered and WiFi picture/video file transfer. Please continue to share how this camera works out you.

will do, once our son gets it working and explains to me how to use and understand it

[Steve51]

I have an old Bushnell game camera that still works and the night pictures are remarkably good. Last fall I bought a package of two Muddy game cameras but I have been pretty disappointed in them. Daytime pictures are good but night time pictures are quite disappointing.

Be very interested in the picture quality of your new camera.

[rickhem]

Two of my cameras, the first two I got, are what is referred to as "low glow" cameras. At night, the IR Illuminators give off a red color that is more visible as it gets darker out. The deer seem to have their curiosity piqued by that, and I get video of them walking right up and sniffing at the camera. They acclimated to it pretty quickly. Most other animals don't seem to notice it at all. The coyotes, however, are unnerved by that illumination, and they usually take off as soon as they see it.
All the other cameras have what they refer to as "no glow" illumination. Absolutely noting visible, yet the camera works fine, and you get a black-and-white video of surprisingly good quality. The newer cams even have sound, and I have a few clips with bucks sparring and you can hear the antlers clicking. The IR illuminators do put a strain on battery life though.
We really do enjoy seeing all the wildlife, including neighbor's pet cats (and occasionally dogs) that show up. I've even got a neat picture of a hawk flying right in front of one, crazy that it captured the hawk in flight like that.

[Vaquero]

Here's the Christmas tree pics. I mentioned.

Screenshot_20240105_091251_Facebook.jpg (317.76 KiB) Viewed 8937 times

RP

[Mags]

In the latter pictures it looks like something had made off with the presents!

[JEBar]

sure hope our new trail camera will show such quality pictures

I've figured out how to format the 128 SD card and was able to set the Date .... so far setting the time has eluded me, its OEM format is 24 hours (military time) .... it says that can be changed to 12 (AM/PM) but I haven't found any way to switch it .... I have read enough to believe that I'm going to leave the rest of the default settings

[fortyshooter]

Now that was a cool idea I will try next Christmas!

[JEBar]

when I checked this morning the only pictures were of me belting it in place .... with today's forecast for extreme wind and rain, I decided to bring the camera in .... I need to find a place to relocate it .... I'm beginning to wonder if Maureen's puppy is paranoid ..

[JEBar]

I finally got fed up with not being able to figure out how to use our new Trail Camera .... the detailed user's manual is beyond me so I got out the quick start instructions .... it took a while but eventually a mental light bulb came on and I was pretty sure I'd figured it out .... it was cold and wet out there while I was strapping it to a tree and installed a cable lock for the first time .... no, I don't believe the cable lock is necessary, I simply wanted to make sure it fits and I can work it .... my plan is to leave it out there a couple of days and then see if I've figured out how to call up and look at any pictures it may have taken ... other than birds and squirrels I haven't seen any signs of wildlife so I'm not anticipating seeing anything else