I purchased a Bushnell Trophy cam last week to overview my yard. I've been having trouble with dog or cat crap in my yard for a long time. I'm pretty sure I know where its coming from but I have to prove it to the land owner, and depending on how things go down than maybe the police as well.

Here are a couple sample pictures.




The angle would be perfect because the crap is pretty well always in the central lit up area there [Edit: center of photo about 25ft from cam]. I set it to shoot no faster than every 7 seconds. I was really disappointed when I checked it today that all 8 new alkaline batteries were dead in 3 days. I just had a measly 512mb SD card in there until I could get a bigger one, and found it full.

Turns out the camera has been shooting on average every 10 seconds continuously until it filled the card in a few hours (800pics). I assume it then just kept on shooting every 10 sec until the batteries died. Which, I thought it should be able to sense the card is full and not shoot anymore. I got 800 pics of nothing.

I suspect the movement of the grass was setting it off constantly. Does it have to be mounted 5-6ft up like the manual says? Its so nicely hidden under my deck as it is now.

Also maybe I should just turn the sensitivity down? It was set to "high". Overnight temp probably around 40F now.

My last question is that if I do turn the sensitivity down, will it reduce the distance it can be triggered from?

My camera does not have field scan or a setting to shoot at predetermined times.

Really frustrated here and don't really have another place to mount the camera out of sight.