Do you still have your trail cameras out and recording what’s going down in your neck of the woods? If you don’t you could be missing out on some big buck action, interesting wildlife photos or even evidence on who’s been sneaking into your honey hole. It’s fairly inexpensive to keep trail cameras going in the off season and basically requires an occasional battery boost in addition to cleaning off your memory card.
Dang! Sasquatch gave me the slip again.
I have one camera running at all times below my house. There’s a seasonal creek running in the draw and the wooded drainage attracts all sorts of animals, day or night. This winter I discovered a dead deer near our pond so I set up a camera there just to see what might be lurking nearby. I hoped at minimum to snap a photo of a coyote grabbing an appetizer. The Holy Grail would be catching a mountain lion or even a wolf in the act of mulling over the expiration date of the carcass. Of course I could hope for a snapshot of Sasquatch, but we all know he spends his winters in southern California.
So far I have about 2.3 million images of magpies, a couple dozen images of nosey mule deer, another dozen shots of my lackadaisical saddle horses and a handful of images of my son and his friends playing “war” in the creek bottom. I did catch a unique image of our local resident golden eagle roosting on a deer rump roast, but I’m still holding out for a Holy Grail snapshot. If I catch something unique, you’ll be the first to know.
Mark Kayser
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