Trail cam again

[wilmsmeyer]

Well, I am getting a huge amount of pictures the last 2 times out. Seems the same family group of deer.

Last time I checked, I added 10 lbs of corn and a punch of apple peels and cores on the ground and a bunch of chicken and beef scraps and bones too.

Trying to catch more foxes and yotes.

Gonna retrieve the chip today and see if the new bait helped out.

[wilmsmeyer]

Here's a few. Check out the squirrel sniffing the dead crow I put in a bush.

[DHinMN]

Neat pictures. It looks like you got a regular at your feeding station. Did you give her a name yet? The last picture I got on my trail cam was an orange house cat.

[wilmsmeyer]

No name. I will think about that though. If these deer are an indicator of how they are surviving our deep snow and cold temps, I'd say they are doing quite well.

I have only been putting tid bits out there for them to eat. I do not want to create a dependency....got to keep them toughened up and self sufficient.

The last batch had 100 pix of these deer! They tripped the camera every 30 seconds for a LONG time. Can't bring myself to change the setting to a greater interval. Afraid I may miss something.

Batteries have been great. 3 weeks out in brutal temps, over 200 pix and no sign of low batteries. PLUS, the flash was used in all but about 12 pix. That's good I think.

Like I said in another post, I want 10 more!

[whyohe]

wow that is a awsome report. now i really want one, knowing how well the batteries hold out. how big of a memory card did you end up getting?

[northny]

Wilmsmeyer, with all the night photos and flashes you are seeing how nocturinal the deer really are. I was not using bait but catching them in food plots, but I found the flash quickly reduced the number of deer using the plot (they had other places to go) and they avoided area with flash. I finally turned the flash off and concentrated on finding where the deer were during daylight (what I wanted to know anyway). My first year with a trail cam and I had a blast. One piece of advice, initially I only was getting deer photos, it was only after I targeted the camera very low that I picked up raccooon, 'yote, porcupine, and turkey. I was shooting over them, and they did not trigger the camera.

[wilmsmeyer]

A couple of 2 GB's.

[northny]

Wilmsmeyer, also meant to say I loved the photos in the snow. Guess I have to stop being a wimp and get my camera back out in the woods.

[wilmsmeyer]

Thanks for the tip northny. Those are some nice pix! I will keep the flash thing in mind this summer/fall. Makes sense.

Funny you mention mounting the camera too high. All my chicken wing bones were gone today but no pix as to why!!