Jackpot!

The wildlife camera in the 'special spot' returned some interesting finds! There isn't a good place to secure the camera, so I stuck it on a ledge in the bank. When I came back to get it I immediately saw that the camera had been knocked over, covered in dirt and the strap was laying over the front of it. Hmm... Sure enough the videos revealed that it lasted less than a day before at least five animals came to mess with it. They knocked it over then started playing with it. It was hard to ID anything because the critters walked ON the camera rather than looking directly at it. But amongst the flashes of fur, tails, eyes etc. I could see that one night it was a large-ish rodent (I'm thinking curious woodrat), another night a raccoon (definitely saw the striped tail) then what I think was a cat, because of the way its eyes looked and the movement of the body and it stretched and walked slowly over the up-facing lens. It seems like this is a good spot, so now I need to find a better way to secure the camera!

Posted on November 23, 2015 06:45 PM by bjoelle