Trail Cameras Again

[Pertinacious Tom]

I moved the camera over to the tree closest to the bobcat's last appearance.

Yes, I moved it FROM the one on the right. Oh well.

The coyote came back by too. And looks like it's about to walk right by the tree from which I moved the camera. Oh well again.

 

[DA-WOODY]

Question:

I have a few year old trail cam, looking for 1 or 2 more

What is the standard theses days ? 

What I want is

(1) fastest time to wake up and start video/pix

(2) non visible IR light

(3) less than arn & leg

 

[DtM]

Like boats, you can have two of the three.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Question:

I have a few year old trail cam, looking for 1 or 2 more

What is the standard theses days ? 

What I want is

(1) fastest time to wake up and start video/pix

(2) non visible IR light

(3) less than arn & leg

My knowledge is probably too dated to answer. I looked on some hunting forums and such several years ago when I bought the previous one and decided Moultrie was a reasonably well-liked brand and I liked the panoramic ability. They were the only company I found with a panoramic one.

When I wanted a new one, I just found the one they're selling now, which is way better than the old one. It has three cameras and can stitch together a panoramic photo but I don't use that often. I just like having three cameras in one, pointing three directions.

I hit the start button and walk away and it seems to take pics pretty quickly so I get a few of my butt. I have it set to keep shooting as fast as possible when it detects motion. This results in lots of junk pics but I got four of the bobcat and three of the coyote in the last round. With the default 10 second delay they'd be gone with two pics at most. The crappy ones out at the edges of the flash.

The new flash isn't visible to humans and I haven't seen animals react to it.

I don't recall exactly what it cost but it seems like pretty cheap entertainment to me. I'd like to scatter more of them around the property but deleting a hundred or so images per day from one camera does get old at times. Not so sure I want more of it that bad.

 

[jocal505]

No, there's only one approach, quoting jocal, and I keep it in Political Anarchy.

Yo, Joe, go back to PA with your bullshit.

Hi, Tom Ray. Good Morning.

Do you deny five years of steady racebaiting? Do you deny being a PIA with a pattern of daily racebaiting, in June?

Why do you want the race-baiting segregated to Political Anarchy?  Why not sustain it on GA for five years? 

 

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Butterfly Sex? And a few more.

I guess that's what's going on.

The coyote was back again.

I think dfw sailor is right in guessing that the streak of light is an insect passing close to the flash.

 

[stumblingthunder]

That is one chill skunk ape!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/trail-floridas-bigfoot-skunk-ape-180949981/

- Stumbling

 

[random]

Talking about trails, found this one dead.  The dingoes will have to be sacked, they should have zeroed in on a sick one.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

No bobcat the last couple of days but the coyote was back, along with some other regular visitors

With the noise and visible red flash of my previous camera, the second picture would always show the animal looking straight at the camera. Not any more.

 

[A guy in the Chesapeake]

Dad??? 

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

I usually get lots of daylight pictures of rabbits and squirrels but the first pictures taken yesterday were night shots of the coyote wandering past my Japanese persimmon tree.

I think dfw sailor is right in guessing that the streak of light is an insect passing close to the flash.

This one makes that more clear as you can see that the streak of light is between the camera and the tree, a distance of maybe 20 feet.

 

[random]

After the wallaby that died upthread, this one has been hanging around.  Took this one this morning while having coffee.

Red-necked Wallaby.

 

[justsomeguy!]

Red-necked Wallaby.

Bubba! 

 

[random]

Bubba! 

Yes a young one but that's about the size they are around here.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Nice DangOl Wallaby, random.

I've had no luck getting critter pics near the pond or near our chickens lately so moved my camera out to the driveway. No critters there either in the past 24 hours but it did get a kind of artsy fartsy black and white pic of one of my favorite oak trees. This tree on the left was torn in half by Hurricane Charlie but survived and I've been trying to train it to grow in a fan shape from the two downed trunks ever since.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

One of the neighborhood squirrels has learned where I hang bananas after I cut them from the tree and is bold enough to brave the cats and dogs to steal them.

I hope it was this one:

At least, I think that's a squirrel under the hawk. There's something furry and that looks like a squirrel tail on the right side of the bird. A cropped in view:

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

The hawk is still looking for that chicken dinner.

And the bobcat is looking for that late night chicken snack. Fortunately, they haven't figured out a way into the coop.

And Libby continues to torment gopher tortoises. The strange part is, the camera caught another pic almost identical to the one below an hour later. My guess is that she got distracted and it escaped and did not quite get back home before she found it again.

 

[random]

Tom, try linking smaller files, they take fucking ages to load here.

Cold westerlies will always have the wildlife on an east facing slop in the early morning, before they hide for the day.  No trail cameras required.

When the days start getting longer the Roos get frisky!   You don't want one of those grabbing you from behind.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Tom, try linking smaller files, they take fucking ages to load here.

Those are straight from the camera, about 1 to 2.5 Mb.

I used to crop, resize, and compress such things but figured I have about the slowest internet around and it's not too bad for me so must be much better for everyone else. I guess not?

 

[random]

Those are straight from the camera, about 1 to 2.5 Mb.

I used to crop, resize, and compress such things but figured I have about the slowest internet around and it's not too bad for me so must be much better for everyone else. I guess not?

Are they embedded or linked?