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| Gray Fox on the Hunt (see video) |
In a single week, the Gardepro cam logged nearly 700 activations, but only 2 percent of them caught any animals. The rest were caused by all the new spring growth blowing in the wind. Each activation runs a 15-second video, and the rechargeable batteries were already close to dead.
For a minute there it seemed like this camera location would be worth all the empty frames, but this last week has tempted me to move it to a new location where wind-activations won't be such a factor. Or another option would be to just set the cam to wait a lot longer between activations, so those windy days don't crank out so many empty frames.
There's still a little bit of water running in the little creek, and on May 13 a coyote drank from it. A wild turkey strolled through on the 11th and the 15th, and I noticed when I was up there yesterday that a small pool in the creek had a big ole turkey poop at the bottom of it. I can only wonder if the birds and four-leggeds are instinctively put off by that.
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| Several bucks with velvet antlers passed by, and this fella had the biggest antlers in the bunch. |
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| A coyote checked out the fox-marked rock. |
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