I lost my trail cam for a while. I forgot which tree I put it on. Honestly I forgot it was on a tree and not on a stand. I doused myself in bug spray and dove into the summer woods looking for it, and found it right where I left it last time. Hm.
Any who, there will be trail cam pics for a couple days.
I do like the new location for the trail cam. I’m getting regular allotment of critters.
There were also the regular scattering of cats, birds, and squirrels, with one neighborhood dog going by. What I haven’t seen is any evidence of raccoons. I think our colony was really and truly wiped out by distemper about a year ago, which makes me remorseful. My animals are all vaccinated for distemper, but the feral cats are not. Raccoons are susceptible to both feline and canine distemper, so it could have been either a cat or neighborhood dog that infected them. Did you know that a group of raccoons is called a nursery or a gaze? There we go.
Last year I bought a sturdy plastic skeleton and secured it to the back of the wire deer in the meadow as if the deer was the skeleton’s steed. I had a different idea this year.
I haven’t checked the trail cam in a couple months, and when I did there were only 39 pictures. Several of those 39, though, were of a Doe and her fawn.
I wasn’t sure at first if the smaller one was a fawn, or if the picture had some perspective magic happening, since there are not visible spots on the fawn. A quick internet image search brings up other night vision photos of fawns where the spots don’t show up. Interesting.
After getting mostly deer body parts on the trail cam, I adjusted it to look down rather than across and was rewarded with full body deer pictures! How many can you spot in the picture below?
I find four deer, all does as far as I can tell. I do have the advantage of seeing all the pictures before and after this one, but here are all the deer circled.
Even cooler, the deer rest within the camera view, so the trail cam is going to stay in this position for a while.
Critters and Craft 