Bat House Forum

[Erik]

My friend Jos and I take turns on checking out our bat houses in the nearby forest. We added a special treat to our weekly rounds: a trail camera!
The first cam (a Bushnell) broke down after a few weeks and is now replaced by a Moultry. Today I checked it for the first time:



My first roe deer! With Jos' Bushnell we already had a fox and a roe deer, but this is my first shot.

Erik

[Joe Spencer]

Awesome Erik! Where's Big Foot on that camera! Of course the long odds are better in Canada and the pacific Northwest for the Sasquatch.

[Dave Miller]

Thanks Erik for the photo! I have been lobbying with my refuge people to purchase a trail cam but have not been successful yet. I think they had a bad experience about 10 years ago with a camera that gave them tons of pictures of nothing. I have been trying to convince them that the cameras are much better now, but in order to prove that I would have to actually buy one myself, which I cannot afford to do.

Thus I am very interested in your camera experiences.

Thanks,

Dave

[Erik]

Hi Dave, I understand what you mean. There are quite expansive, in Europe even or than in the US - this one was imported from the US. The organization I am working now is the Dutch Mammal Society and they ordered 20 camera's in one go. I bought my own one in the same mega-order so it was a little bit cheaper. The shop we bought it was Bass Pro.
I have gave much thought about buying my own trail cam, but because of the link with the bat house project (we check the cam with our 2-weekly bat house checks) I decided to buy my own. I am free to put it were I want to. Leaving it in the forest is still a bit scary. The camera is secured with a chain and lock to a tree, but still stealing it or damaging it is not difficult.
This weekend the camera also photographed a man on the spot. The photo only shows shoes and legs so I can't see who he is. I have left the camera at the spot, but I am not at ease with it. I think I am going to move it today, to another spot. You never know..... The camera is not near a path so it is someone who also walks outside the paths. It could be a forest ranger and I guess he would respect the camera. It has a label that is for scientific nature research. But it also could be a poacher and they don't like to be seen to all. But probably it is a nature lover like me, or a peanut butter lover.... (that's the bait we used last week).

Here some new, but not very spectacular results.


There is a hedgehog in the left of the picture.


Mice compilation.


Not a mammal, but a common buzzard, checking out the camera.

Greetings,
Erik

[ShenandoahJoe]

Your buzzards are much better-looking than ours. Ours look like Supreme Court judges with nasty skin problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Urubu ... ulture.jpg

Joe