We bought a new wildlife camera. It was very inexpensive since I didn’t want bluetooth or other fancy features, and to be honest the photos aren’t great. But let’s see what’s been visiting our yard anyway!

There’s always deer. Almost every single night they walk through our backyard, never coming onto the patio. The night vision of the camera couldn’t sense too far beyond the edge of the patio, so sometimes the deer are visible just by the glow of their eyes.

The above is a rare daytime sighting of a deer in our yard, and it was just before 9 am on a weekday when both KLS and I were at work. I can’t remember the last time ever witnessing a deer in the yard during the day, so this is very unusual.

The vast majority of photos – over 200! – were of squirrels, especially after we put a feeder out with corn in it. The guy in the photo just above has food grains on his face and in the previous shots was inside the feeder eating the remainder of the corn.

The squirrels were never photographed at night, and the vast majority of photos was just one. Above we see three in the same photo!

The above photo shows what I believe is the wispy end of a squirrel tail as it sat upon the camera!

There were a lot of rabbit photos as well, and all of them were at night. They seemed to be moving around a lot, because most of the time they were in a single photo rather than in a series.

The above was unexpected! Atop the feeder perches a red cardinal, and this was taken at dusk as well. I suppose he was interested in the corn; I wonder if he got any. He was only in this one photo.

Again, there was only photo of this mysterious beast, likely on patrol. I wonder what he was looking for? This was taken late at night.

The fox seems to visit every few days, and there were dozens of photos of him. We’ve seen foxes in our yard before, so this isn’t a surprise. He’s probably after the rabbits!

And I’ll end with this one. It was taken around 7 am and at first glance looks like a fox but on second glance not so much. I have my suspicions as to what type of animal this is. What do you think?