It’s been a while, but once again it’s time for some snaps from our backyard wildlife camera! I dusted it off a couple of weeks ago and put it out on the back patio facing away from the house on an angle. Here’s the first shot on it:
If you think that’s me carefully placing a feeder in shot to attract animals… well I’m guilty as charged!
There were about 90 shots on the camera, about 45% of which were like this…
…and another 45% like this…
Yes that’s me mowing!
The other 10% were very interesting though. Let’s get the squirrel shots out of the way first:
We saw chipmunks (and birds) eating from the feeder as well, but apparently they are too small or fact to trigger the shutter so there were no photos of them.
However it seems the feeder wasn’t just popular with the squirrels and chipmunks. Here’s the night photos (click on them to enlarge):
Strangely I don’t think this is the cat we usually see in our yard. I bet Yossie and Emi know all about this visitor 🙂
That’s a deer, hiding behind the first bowl (which is full of dead branches yes I know and I will clean it up soon!)
That one is a real mystery. It’s small and sleek and probably dark-furred. Could it be a rat? I think it’s too big for a mole (which we have seen in our backyard before). Any ideas?
A possum! And the first clear shot I’ve got of one on our camera! I wonder where he lives?
Another first: a skunk! A little one as well, probably a baby. This is not surprising to us, since we’ve seen skunks in our yard before (even a mother and two babies a couple of years ago), but this is the first time I’ve caught one on the feeder.
These night shots surprised me because of the variety and because in every case there was only one of each animal. There were however a few shots with no visible animal and I wonder if there were things lurking in the dark beyond the range of the sensor that had triggered it. I fiddled with contrast on some of them to explore with no luck. Perhaps it was just the wind?
I love using this camera and the excitement of looking at the photos. I’ll be putting it out again this time for a month or so 🙂