Well I thought I'd update you all on my trail camera situation. My Moultrie 200 camera + the 1GB memory card are working fine, I'm glad I bought them and so far they've been quality.

The down side: I've had the camera up since about the 10th of January right across from a corn-fed wildlife feeder I made. After I put the camera up around January 10th I came back two weeks later to see if there were any new images: nope, and nothing had touched the feeder! So, another month after that (late February) I went back to check on the camera for a second time: no new pictures and the feeder still hadn't been touched! (Though there were some mouse-like tracks by it in the snow.) Then, on the 11th of March (last week) I went to check and get the camera so I could charge up the battery (which was at 63%, not bad for not being charged for 3 months in below freezing weather.) To my surprise on the third visit to the camera, I actually had some pictures this time, 20 new pictures in fact! I was extremely excited the whole day and couldn't wait to get home to see what the images were of. That day when I did get home the first thing I did was check the pictures on the camera.

Here is what I found.


Squirrels.
Squirrels.
And more squirrels.

The camera had been outside for THREE months STRAIGHT aimed RIGHT ACROSS from a HUGE 50+ pound corn feeder on unhunted property. Out of those whole three months I got 20 pictures, half of them were squirrels - the other half were blank. No deer, no wolves, no coyote, no bear, and no bobcats (all of which are "pretty" common in the area the camera is located.)

Oh well, I'm sure someday I'll get a good picture of something. Let's just hope next time it's not all a bunch of darned squirrels! [:-]