JJ's critter cam

[T Race]

I bought two, they are in the mail.  Can't wait to see what's is running around my back yard.  

After I learn to use it, then I will graduate to trying to find some boar running around our local National Forest (Big Sur).

I can almost smell the pork-chops cooking.  Well, not really, that's a Pop-Tart I just burned in the toaster...

Thanks for your posts, JJ - you have motivated me to go ahead and get a couple of these trail-cams, which I have been hankering to

mess around with for some time now.

Someone should make something like this in the form of a fishfinder/buoy/cellphone.  See, you drop the buoy in the path of where

your favorite migratory fish come through, the King mackerel show up and activate the devise, and the cell phone sends you a text

that says "Hey, time to gas up, it's GO TIME !!"   Sounds good, anyway.  It's a big ocean.  

[RickK]

new guy

May be the same guy - see the spot on the left rear leg inside - same spot on the one way above? Maybe his antlers grew out?

[seabob4]

Trace,
You want the momma sow with the little ones in tow...about 75 pounds.  Trap him, plunk him with a .22 in the forehead...now THERE'S some good eats!!!

[John Jones]

May be the same guy - see the spot on the left rear leg inside - same spot on the one way above? Maybe his antlers grew out?

Could be Rick but I think that is just one of the tarsal (scent) glands that they all have.

[T Race]

After months of watching and much gnashing of teeth on my part,  I finally have some photos of California wildlife for you guys.

I picked this spot as a potential tree stand location for bow hunting in a few months. Unfortunately, this area is not looking tasty.

I have hunted this area (glass and stalk) and saw Zero bucks, close OR far.  I have some other areas I am going to spy on with the two cameras.  The cameras worked great, except I put the other one in a bad spot and nothing went into that area.

I got photos of deer, a fox that owns the neighborhood, a buzzard, I think a mountain lion, and the elusive and deadly free range cattle which the computer ate.  To wit:

Mr. Fox at night, pouncing on something to munch on


Buzzard probably coming to eat what the fox left behind


Mr. Fox


Coastal Blacktail


Coastal Blacktail


Mountain lion, I think... I was glassing early one morning and spotted a lion about 150 meters away from this spot, up on a small bluff...he saw me way before I saw him


Mr. Fox, the land lord...


more deer




but no bucks....DANG  :cry:

[John Jones]

Good going.  You do have to move them around sometimes to get the most traffic.  It changes with seasons too.  No deer on my cameras for several months now.

[slvrlng]

Unless you are scared someone will steal it, I myself would hang it on that tree in the pics about 5 feet off the ground facing back to the tree its in now. If nothing else hang it up in that one higher to see what is going on behind where it is now. Sometimes the bucks will not follow the same trail as all the other animals. Cool shots none the less!

[T Race]

Lew,

Yea, I'm sure someone would steal it, down low. But you are right, J.J.'s photos were a lot nicer down low.

 But thanks for the thoughts on where to place it. I thought this would be a dandy spot. To the 9 oclock is a small crick, from 11 to 2 is thick brush with no descernable trails though it. 2 to 5 is two clear knolls with a big trail coming through the saddle. and 5 to 9 is a two story table top bluff, with a mountain lion living somewhere up there.  

I have found another chanelled area to the crick on the other side of the bluff.  I will try that area next.  Man, it would be sweet to find a perch up on the table top to shoot down from, instead of the tree stand.

Guess I need to link up with cooperative bucks first.  :tongue:

Geez, with that mountain lion up there, maybe the tree stand is the way to go !

[gran398]

That mountain lion is a helluva lot cooler than a button buck.

Leave it right there, let's see him again