I’ve had a terrible time getting any results from the game camera. I guess everything has headed for high country for the summer, but hell – not even the rabbits want their picture taken lately.
Finally decided to take advantage of the cattle guy having moved the herd out due to there not being any grass because extreme drought, and put the camera the one place where you just know animals will want to congregate…
I know the local wildlife can get along without open water. They’ve been doing it a helluva long time, or there wouldn’t be animals here at all. But still – there it is. And no annoying cattle! So you’d think all the animals would be all like…
Two weeks ago, more or less, I put the camera back to overlooking the water trough. And in all that time, here are the only two creatures it recorded…
Seriously, not even a bird. It was the same in the camera’s last location. There’s either something wrong with the camera or with the summer. In truth I’m not sure it’s the camera; this has been a dead summer for wildlife sightings. Even the rabbits are sparse.
But not even a single picture of a bird in two weeks? It could be the camera…
Joel You have me extremely intrigued on that old tractor tire turned into a watering trough. It looks like it has a cement bottom with a pipe coming up from below that feeds the water when the float drops (probably just a needle valve to the arm/float). How did they seal the cement to the tire such that this thing does not leak (or maybe it does and they just don’t care).
I wasn’t there when they installed it, but I assume they set it in place, plumbed it for water, then poured concrete inside deep enough to flow into the tire and seal it. It does not appear to leak a drop, and it’s been there for years now. A very economical and effective design.
Well, . . . I suspect your camera is partially to blame. I’m sure yours is better than mine, but mine seems to be selective. There are times I get all kinds of photos, and other times none. There have been many times I’ve put food scraps out overnight. The next morning everything is gone, and not a single photo of what took it. It’s frustrating.