Cat
Date: 25-Dec-10
We first aimed the game cam at the cat food bowl in the barn. We discovered we had a stray cat, not one of ours. It was friendly and we gave it to the humane society.
Me in kitchen
Date: 4-Jan-11
Next we aimed it at the local watering (tea?) hole and food source, the pix-covered fridge. I wore that fleece durring last year's superbowl.
Me and Amanda
Date: 4-Jan-11
The game cam was set here for about a week and we soon forgot it was there. Amanda spends a lot of her time at home cooking. I also wore this sweatshirt during last year's superbowl!
Me and Emily
Date: 4-Jan-11
This is the infra-red vision mode of the camera. That is my Saints fleece I am putting on with black and gold colors. In IR the black and gold look the same. I am about to take my glasses off to put the fleece over my head as I walk down the hall.
Janet on the phone
Date: 5-Jan-11
Candid shots? When the camera is up for a week you soon forget about it. It took over 1000 shots before I downloaded the memory card.
Observing the tea
Date: 5-Jan-11
I am looking at the sediment in the tea stored in the fridge. They say red colors attract women. Not sure about the stomach.
Amanda
Date: 8-Jan-11
Bringing up dishes from the home theater.
Dead deer
Date: 9-Feb-11
Finally I set up the game cam on a real game situation. We saw birds on this deer from the house and wondered what was going on.
Bird on deer
Date: 9-Feb-11
This is a Wildgame scout camera. If you type "game cam" into google all you see is software to captiure images from the game you are playing on your PC. Well, I guess this is a game.
What bird is this?
Date: 9-Feb-11
At first we thought this was a hawk. Later we discovered it is an immature bald eagle.
Hungry
Date: 9-Feb-11
The deer is completely frozen as the temperature is 10 F at this time. It had been dead several days.
Fox
Date: 10-Feb-11
The IR camera show a fox at 11 PM.
Fox 2
Date: 10-Feb-11
The temperature is -3 F and the fox is still there two hours later at 1 AM. The next shot in the morning has the dead deer about 3 feet to the left. The fox must have moved it.
Camera maintenance
Date: 10-Feb-11
Here I am putting down some ewe feed for the animals in one of Janet's reject pots. The dark thing behind me is the intestines of the deer. I exchanged out one 8 GB memory for another one. There are lots more photos not presented here.
Squirel
Date: 10-Feb-11
Lunch time at 8F.
Crows
Date: 10-Feb-11
They really like the intenstines to the right.
Bald eagle
Date: 10-Feb-11
Well, look who showed up at 5 PM, an hour or so before sunset at 22F. This is the baby eagle on the deer with mom in the distance.
Mom eagle
Date: 10-Feb-11
Mom comes closer but no photo of her eating. The day before I set up the camera here we saw her eating through my father's telescope from the house.
Takeoff
Date: 10-Feb-11
Her white tail shows as she leaves. Late sun on our walnut trees in the background.
Coyotes
Date: 11-Feb-11
I heard them laughing in the night a few days ago. Maybe they were taking this deer.
Coyotes
Date: 11-Feb-11
Next day there was not much evidence of new eating.
Coyotes
Date: 11-Feb-11
There are at least two in the pack.
Coyotes
Date: 11-Feb-11
Eyes light up from "red eye" effect of IR LEDs reflecting off the retna.
Fox
Date: 11-Feb-11
The fox is back
Deer
Date: 11-Feb-11
Deer at 1AM? Janet wondered earlier if deer would visit the site of a casualty. She is very interested in the ewe feed. Temp is -2.
Skunk?
Date: 11-Feb-11
Sure looks like one. We know they feed on dead animals. Not afraid of the fox? I guess odor protection.
Deer
Date: 11-Feb-11
We are surprised that at the end of 1 day the pot of ewe feed (mostly corn) is still 3/4 full.
Live and dead deer
Date: 11-Feb-11
Not much to eat
Date: 11-Feb-11
Eating some dried weeds. Their hair seems to be much shorter than hair on our llamas. Not sure how they survive this weather. We have had two months of snow cover, much longer than usual.
Dead deer
Date: 9-Feb-11
You probably didn't want to see this.