After a couple worthless weeks on the cams, it felt good to check them yesterday and see that things are picking up. I made several moves last weekend and I was pretty pleased with the out come across the board. The only major disappointment was not getting pics of the buck that was leaving some great sign on the edge of the bean field where the coyote video was taken. I left that cam there in hopes that it was just a bad week for that location, so we’ll see what the next week will reveal for that camera. The good news for that spot is I now know where the biggest doe group is coming from and how I can get on them when the time comes. Without further ado, here is what the last week had to offer…
I’ve been struggling to get pictures from the cam monitoring the activity around Paradise and this could be one reason why…
Thankfully, I think the fawn survived the encounter as I had pictures of a single fawn later that night who then returned a short while later with its mother. I have some serious yote issues in this area, which is hard to believe given it is more or less an “urban” area now with all the development that has occurred in the past few years. It just goes to show that yotes are survivors and you can never assume they will not inhabit a certain area.
This cam also gave me a look at a buck who will not receive a free pass if he journeys past Tracie and I at any point this season. I’m not TOO happy about his tine length, but he’ll make a great first bow kill for her. He’s staying pretty consistent to the area and with the food plot growing like wild fire, I have a feeling we can count on seeing him a time or two this fall…
I set all the SpyPoints on the farm to video this week and have since decided that I love using these cameras in this mode. The amount of information revealed in a 30 second video is far more than I get from a series of burst mode pics from my cams. This video of the yote made me laugh. I guess he wasn’t a fan of the IR panel!!!
[video=youtube;zJr2UGm3Xi0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJr2UGm3Xi0&feature=player_profilepage[/video]
Here is the doe group hanging around the new plot that I planted behind the buddy stand we hung last weekend. These does cam past the cam above and dropped in to the bottom within bow range of the buddy stand not 20 minutes after leaving the bean field. As I had hoped, that stand (now called the TOO set in honor of the site) is proving to be a great location already…
[video=youtube;ptShwIz79q4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptShwIz79q4&feature=player_profilepage[/video]
I hung this camera on a travel corridor that is visible from my best decoy stand. I contemplating hanging a stand in this general area, and still might do that. But I like the fact that Captain Jack appears to have come off the bean field, crossed the bottom, and hit this shelf to get to the bedding area just off Hippie Ridge. Moe was right behind him, but the video was not worth sharing. I used some of the new pre-orbital gland lure on an annual scrape in front of this cam yesterday, so I hope to have some results from that test run on the next cam check…
[video=youtube;b3EniJEwQ6s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3EniJEwQ6s&feature=player_profilepage[/video]
I’ve been struggling to get pictures from the cam monitoring the activity around Paradise and this could be one reason why…
Thankfully, I think the fawn survived the encounter as I had pictures of a single fawn later that night who then returned a short while later with its mother. I have some serious yote issues in this area, which is hard to believe given it is more or less an “urban” area now with all the development that has occurred in the past few years. It just goes to show that yotes are survivors and you can never assume they will not inhabit a certain area.
This cam also gave me a look at a buck who will not receive a free pass if he journeys past Tracie and I at any point this season. I’m not TOO happy about his tine length, but he’ll make a great first bow kill for her. He’s staying pretty consistent to the area and with the food plot growing like wild fire, I have a feeling we can count on seeing him a time or two this fall…
I set all the SpyPoints on the farm to video this week and have since decided that I love using these cameras in this mode. The amount of information revealed in a 30 second video is far more than I get from a series of burst mode pics from my cams. This video of the yote made me laugh. I guess he wasn’t a fan of the IR panel!!!
[video=youtube;zJr2UGm3Xi0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJr2UGm3Xi0&feature=player_profilepage[/video]
Here is the doe group hanging around the new plot that I planted behind the buddy stand we hung last weekend. These does cam past the cam above and dropped in to the bottom within bow range of the buddy stand not 20 minutes after leaving the bean field. As I had hoped, that stand (now called the TOO set in honor of the site) is proving to be a great location already…
[video=youtube;ptShwIz79q4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptShwIz79q4&feature=player_profilepage[/video]
I hung this camera on a travel corridor that is visible from my best decoy stand. I contemplating hanging a stand in this general area, and still might do that. But I like the fact that Captain Jack appears to have come off the bean field, crossed the bottom, and hit this shelf to get to the bedding area just off Hippie Ridge. Moe was right behind him, but the video was not worth sharing. I used some of the new pre-orbital gland lure on an annual scrape in front of this cam yesterday, so I hope to have some results from that test run on the next cam check…
[video=youtube;b3EniJEwQ6s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3EniJEwQ6s&feature=player_profilepage[/video]
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