Dad! Look at these Tracks!

Two weekends ago after some rain the “trails” near our bamboo and “creek” were really soft. The girls found a plethora of nighttime activity left by the footprints in the mud.

It looked like there were deer, raccoons, and some canine of some sort.

I had considered it for a while, but this was the perfect opportunity to get a game camera (mounts to a tree, takes pictures when it senses motion). We went inside and ordered it immediately.

That Tuesday it arrived and we set it up. Wednesday morning we had this.

That’s Foxy. He/She shows up almost every night.

So far there’s Foxy, Clover (a rabbit or many rabbits), Nutty (a daytime squirrel), and 1 giant mamma deer.

Every morning the girls are so excited to download the pictures and see who came to visit.

The hope is to one night catch a coyote. That first weekend they saw tracks that were pretty big. To see and prove we had a coyote passing through would be pretty cool.

The camera itself I think is cool. As you can see it stamps the date, time, temperature and moon phases. The quality of the shots aren’t bad. in both of these the animals were really close or moving quickly, so the quality is a little fuzzy. It does have the option for video and video with sound. Maybe we’ll try that one night.

– b