Tiny opossum

Photo description: small mammal checking out a food dish on wood steps, possible opossum
Photo description: adult opossum on the same steps, bowl for scale, with a tabby cat peeking out from behind the door

At first I thought the mammal in the first picture was a rat, but it doesn’t stand like a rat, it stands like an opossum.

Oh yeah, I checked the trail cams again. Downloading a thousand photos and then deleting the ones I don’t want was exhausting, to me and the cloud. So then I was using the Photos app to pick just a few remarkable pics to download, but the thumbnails are very small there and hard to see what is going on in each picture.

I found a better method this last time: open up the folder on the USB card in the Finder app (Mac), maximize the preview size, and arrow button press through single-view photos before ever downloading them. I drag the interesting pics to a temporary folder, and keep going. It is also like playing a time lapse video, I see the photos rapidly in sequence and get a better idea of the animals movements.