Fox, bobcat, deer and wild turkey among wildlife seen using old log to cross creek where camera set up to capture the action
I’ve always believed that even a rut is a road to somewhere, but never realized that a weathered old log could be a wildlife freeway.
Readers may recall that I often put out wildlife cameras in remote places in hopes of capturing images of our wildlife neighbors as they go about their daily or nightly tasks. I have built an intricate system that uses a wireless motion sensor to activate a high-resolution digital camera and remote flashes. As an animal passes by, the system fires, recording the scene in full color.
Typically, I will leave a camera in place for a week to 10 days before returning to change batteries and see what was photographed. Photos are time stamped, and it looked like the midnight fox had crossed the log every night for five nights, but for whatever reason all the photos were tail shots, and I never had an image of the fox returning.
After three weeks in place, the camera captured the passing fox, a beautiful bobcat, a wild turkey, a carp swimming in the shallow creek water, a buck deer walking next to the log, and an assortment of squirrels, small birds, ravens and wood rats.What seemed amazing was the kind of wildlife safety zone the log represented.
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