Sometimes this game camera I’m still playing with is just frustrating. It hints at things that happened, but fails to take pictures of the damned things. Example:
Here we have a perfectly ordinary picture of a raven on the tire. Nothing else going on, as far as I can see. Note the time stamp.
Now here are three frames taken one minute later. As far as I can see the only differences between these frames, the only reason the camera took them, is a gust of wind blew the bushes around. But look at the tire…
How’d the tire get all wet? Between the raven frame and the next, with a time stamp one minute later, something very splashy happened to the tire. Raven decide to take a bath? Could’ve happened, I guess, but then why no pic of that? Makes me wonder what else I’m missing.
Other than the usual multitudes of deer, the only thing that happened last night that the camera found out of the ordinary was three good pics of a coyote who wasn’t behaving like a kid whose mother caught him buying condoms…
Just kind of hanging out, I guess.
It’s about time to move the camera anyway, and I think I’ll bring it home to see if it clicks or something, and also reset the sensitivity higher. I’ll get more pics of blowing branches, but hopefully also more pics of wildlife.
I have mine set to take a picture every 15 seconds, which is as fast as it will take pictures. I have not tried video mode but you could try that if you check every day and have large GB chips installed.
Looking at the photos it looks like there’s a fountain going to keep the water moving and stop things like algae from forming. If that’s the case I suspect a gust of wind on that fountain may have blown the water over the side of the tire.
Bird(s) taking a bath is my bet. They splash an amazing amount of water. But is there something to keep the water circulating?
Nope, no fountain. That’s just the top of the float that works the fill valve.
Raven took a bath in the water inside the tire, then flew off.