I put my trail cam back out
 

I put my trail cam back out on 2-5-2020. There’s a deer out back with a broken leg from either an auto collision or was shot last November.. So yes I have started feeding him and the others that have been coming around. I mainly want to help the one with the bad leg mostly. I am hoping that our snow doesn’t get to deep for it. Anyway here’s a few pictures of them out back. I have tried to delete that sticker but can't appear to.. The more I try to fix it the more I mess it up..

I leave my cam's out all yr, 24/7365, and have for about 20 yrs now or more!

and like you I too have an injured doe/yearling, showed up second week of buck season, holding its front leg up, no gun shot or wound can be seen, and leg is being HELD up by the poor thing now ever since, we had a real bad ice storm just before it showed up and I think it fell on the ice and damaged its leg

never easy seeing them be this way
all the more so when you see the other deer pick on it, as they know its not right

I had hopes that a hunter would have got it to save ti from a harder life, but so far its been hanging in there
have seen many 3 legged one's last a few yrs too, had one that went for like 4 yrs before a local guy targeted it as a goal, and took all season to get it, but he did!
gather a 3 legged deer that lives that long was pretty smart one, minus the original injury, but had to learn to get by on 3 and avoid hunters and coyotes and such!

This is the second deer that I have seen like this. The last one came out at night and was a huge buck that a guy shot at. That winter we had deep snow and I have never seen it again. I am hopeful that our snow doesn’t get so deep this year so it will make to another hunting season.

Just an interesting photo that my camera took of a last year’s fawn running into big momma.

I've always enjoyed looking at northern deer. Their heavy frame is impressive.

-Jake

seeing this reminds me I need to pull my SD cards, been lazy past 4 weeks and I am sure there full of pic's LOL
as I typically get a few hundred one each cam each week
been suck a mild winter, like no real snow so far, just haven;t been thinking of cam's much! nice bears den up I tend to check less often here and last bear was here first week in jan and haven't seen any since
had a few days in mid 60's too, that had me thinking one might show yup to stretch its legs mid winter!!
now have a job for tomorrow I guess if its not raining!

Thank you Jake

We have been having some strange weather this winter. It has been warm for us with snow and freezing rain and then up around 40. That was most all of January and now halfway through February we are getting some cold air. Tonight they are calling for 6 below. I set another trail cam out to watch my bird feeder. There has been a deer raiding it every night now. So I set it on video mode and I am hoping it will capture it eating from that feeder. It would be interesting to see it doing that anyway.

checked cam's today 4600 + pictures since last time

and oddly enough I had chipmunks on cam the past 4 weeks
which I don't ever recall seeing in Jan/Feb here.

this weather any more is just far from normal IMO, too many wild temp swings, has critters all messed up!

I saw groundhogs out in a field today.

-Jake

WOW! My 16 gb card got maxed out at 2774 pictures on it. I am getting around 300 pictures a day on it. That’s because I am feeding them though. The one with the bad leg is loosing weight by the looks of things. Those other deer keeps driving him away. But he is getting some that they leave behind..

4600 was split between 3 cams LOL
but how many pic's a card will hold has to do with many things, not just size of card, also depends on resolution of each pic's
higher the resolution,(MP) the less a card will hold in pictures!(or video too)
my 4-mp cam's will hold a few thousand pic's on a 4g card!
my older 2mp cams will hold over 4000 pic's ona 2g card

get into the higher 16mp cams and such and they don't hold as many pic's on smaller cards , higher quality takes up more space I gather,
but IMO< 99% of my pic's on 4-6 MP cam's are good enough for me and clear enough to not need the higher MP's

I think they sell higher MP cam's just to try and make folks into thinking them need the latest and greatest cam's and yo keep people buying things!

NOT that there bad bu any means, just saying, Most cams if lower resolution work darn good for the average guy! and cost a lot Less to buy and up keep, can us , , smaller SD cards and less battery drain per pic!

Yeah, I can understand what you are saying. I have an older cam that sounds almost like a loud cap gun going off when it flashed to take a picture. I never really cared for that one so much. Not because of the picture quality but because of the noise that it made. To me photos are photos and you can see what they are just the same. I did purchase mine on sale so I have never paid the original asking price for them. I recently bought a spy point to set up this summer. I am not sure how it’s going to work but wanted to know when I have cows out back in my garden. It’s supposed to send pictures to my cellphone.? That feature will come in handy for that purpose..

over the past 20+ yrs of using trail cam's I have had a lot of makes and models , some quieter than others, some worked a lot better than others too or just lasted longer
price tag alone never meant better over the yrs, I have seen all ends of$$$ break and fail
for me anymore, I want cam's with good trigger speeds and good battery life, I can live with some noise, as honestly my critters up here don;t seem to care , if anything, it makes them curious and I get more pic;s of them inspecting what made the sounds, and get close ups of them LOL
I am in a very high bear area as well, and , if I do my part(keep hands scent free as possible ) when checking cam's I never have any issue's
yrs back I had a few cams eaten and figured out they were more interested in smelling what was on my hands , than the cam making sounds, and from about May till Dec, I tend to get bears on cam daily! many times 20-40 pic's a day, bears seem to love my place, with all my variety of food plots, fruit tree's, grapes and assorted other things they seem to enjoy! and quite honestly, I think they feel pretty safe here, I find them sleeping in my yard rather often
and every single spring/early summer, I witness at least 3 different bears mating here

I do get a lot of bear scratching on some of my tree's where males seem to try and mark the place as there's
but so many bears in this area, few seem to honor the markings, when the girls are here! LOL
now as for trail cam's that send pic's to your email or phones?
I'm going to say I don't have a ton of experience with the new one's
but many yrs back I had the first series of them cams, I still have a molturie set up, it was designed to send pic' s to email, and it did so, but it was terrible, it would suck down a set of batteries in about 12 pictures sent, even with a solar panel set up on it, a remote battery,set up and solar would last me about 50 pic's and dead battery's again!
it was just terrible and pic quality wasn't good either, I then went to a Buckeye cam(or maybe before I forget)
that worked a TON better, but very costly , I had 2, then one got stolen, and then a third, and that one got shot by some Jacka$$ trespassing!

the costs of them for me with such high trespassing issue's just couldn;t justify using them

I am now using a lot of the cheaper cam's and having very good luck with some of the Wildgame Innovations Cloak models of I think all 4 or 6 MP(might have one that is 8mp)
but been getting them for like 42 bucks with batteries and a SD card
for me a super deal if you do the math on battery's and sd card

and so far every one has been working 356/24/7 for the past 2-3 yrs now, in my YARD< where no one steals em !
in dead of winter and heat of summer, and I will honestly say I average about 200-400 pic's a week off every cam, some a LOT more than others, and I get about 6+ months out of battery's on these models so far!

but most of these cheap like cams, for me last about 3 yrs then fail after that, maybe one or two that made it to a 5 yr mark,, but costs is worth it IMO

I will actually say I have been very impressed with them, as to higher end cam's I have that don;t last any longer, or get me any more pic;s!

My main problem is, that come 3 yrs down the road, the models I have are NO longer made and cannot just replace them

this is where this game gets tricky, as you never know HOW well a CHEAP cam will work or last, and by the time you do, there no longer made to get more if you like em! HAHA

all in all of these cloaks I think I have like 6 of them now, had I known they would work and last like they have been, I'd of bought 10 more!

I had an early Wildgame Innovations camera and I choose to call that my hit or miss camera..It took pictures but never very consistantly.. I could see where the deer walked all around it and if I was lucky I would get a picture or to from it.. It was an early version that never cost very much at all. Then I had a stealth Prowler and that actually worked great for me.. Then it was attacked by a one eyed sow and she broke the snaps that held the door closed. But it still works great though but the moisture gets in it from those broken latches.. Now I am using the Stealth Trailhawks that I am quite happy with.. My new Spypoint I can't say anything about that one yet except it's supposed to send pictures to my phone.. That's about all I can say until I actuelly use it..

I went and checked my cards this morning after we had an ice storm last night. I had to laugh at these pictures.. You just never know what you are going to get when you check them.. In this set I am posting is two of last springs fawns, It looks to me like one is going to be a spike this fall.. lol I hope that you enjoy them..

That's too funny. I guess three's a party, not a crowd. ;)

Nice photo!. Love the winter pics. I had no cams out over winter this past year so it's nice to see some photos.

if you don't mind I'll add a few more pic's from my backyard cams', I am rather lucky I have a wide variety of critters in my yard off and on all day long every day yr round!
can enjoy watching things from my couch,, deck, or all over when outside on my property, yrs of planting and growing foods and cover, water, m sure brings critters in, as they say, you build it they will come!

a couple more
and a little April snow too

and last for now

Heck no I don’t mind any at all. I have them with raccoons as well and I have a dislike for them. They wiped out a pen full of pheasants on me years back. I had 50 get wiped out in a single night after they chewed a hole in the netting. The deer are here all year long as well and will leave the fawns in the field while they are off eating.. always nice to watch them playing..

I get a lot of different critters here all yr, some days I am honestly amazed by how many different things I see in my yard here
from ducks to bobcats to bears,, I have seen them all here
and seen many of them sleeping in the yard as well

haven't had any real issue's with any of them
, if I had to pick a critter that causes me any issue's with will be field mice, they have chewed ona few too many wires over the yrs, including causing me a few grand in repairs

a short story on Coon's
I have a skid steer here, and during summer time I had the door off(its an enclosed machine), and a darn moue or? was getting inside and building a nest every night
so I added a few of them mouse bait chuncks(there kinda green in color and like a wax material) and a few glue traps, to try an catch what ever it was!

so, a few days went by, and I went to go move machine, and that's when I found it?

apparently I caught the mouse, and it was in the glue trap, and then a coon, must have smelled it or heard it, so went in cab to investigate it
then got its feet stuck on the glur trap trying to remove the mouse
so while in there, it then proceeded to eat half the mouse, which got its nose I guess stuck to the glue trap, was covered with coon hair about half eaten mouse,
after freaking out I with glue traps on feet, it found the mouse bait I had inside, and proceeded to eat the 3 blocks I had inside

well still stuck in there, it apparently had a reaction to the mouse bait it ate, must have been in its stomach a while and heated up enough to melt it into a fluid like state!
it them proceeded to throw up all over the inside of my cab, and I mean EVERY where, was like a bomb went off, it tore the seat up a bunch from chewing on it , to claw markings,
from ceiling to every window all sides, under seat, floor every where, was this green throw up wax!
and then, managed to get free as it seemed to loosen the glue up
and got away!

WHAT a mess that made, as the stuff wouldn;t come off with water, , unless maybe really HOT water which I didn;t have means to do

SO< I learned my lesson, on being lazy and NOT putting the door back on machine after every use LOL
but that is the only damage I have ever had from a coon
even my bears here, are good, extremely rare for one to even tip over a trash can in my whole area! and we have a LOT of bears here!

That does sound like terrible mess. I stepped in a glue trap at camp once. I forgot about it and then after checking things out in the camp I stepped right on it. I haven’t been to the camp all winter and then in the spring getting it ready is when it happened. What a damn mess it was getting it off my shoe. It had the remains of two or three dead mice in it and my shoe.. Do I guess it worked well. But I haven’t experienced what you did that’s for sure. I don’t think that I would want to. One glue trap is enough for me to experience..