D11 secret spot trail cam pics

[solus]

Ya know, there's this tree right next to the road on the way in. Right at a very narrow spot with no way around it on either side. It's about 4 miles from my secret spot. An I gots me a sharp chainsaw. It could be that that thar tree "falls down" the afternoon just before opening weekend. Coincidentally.

see that jeep in my pic? thats actually my jeep...it goes over bigger rocks lol

[Rob P.]

I dunno, them "rocks" yer Jeep is going over in the pic look pretty flat to me....

Besides ain't you already decided that yer goin' huntin' in D14?

[solus]

I have an A31 tag and I havent bought my second tag yet still debating if to stick with D11 or head up to D14 its a hard choice. Oh that is pismo at sunset. If you know what a black diamond is you know D14 is riddled with them and Ive done most of the trails in SBNF :-D Jeeps not afraid although sometimes I am lol.

[Orygun]

It could be that that thar tree "falls down" the afternoon just before opening weekend. Coincidentally.

Up here trees come down like that during rifle season. Almost always after someone drives up a closed road with no other way out.

[BAJA]

Are you using the RED 4? I have a total of 6 cameras up, three of them are RED 4...I have the same problem...Its probably not the leaves...on mine its the shadows.As soon as there are shadows on my images the camera snaps a picture every minute until its dark..Im trying to figure out if there is a way to not make it so sentative.....

[Rob P.]

Baja, I'm using a Wildgame WCX 2 IR for my setup. I'd have been fine but for those stupid leaves!

False triggers (according to Jesse) can be the result of shadows and changing light conditions on leaves in the image area. He suggest (recommends?) that you set up your camera so it points north or south and have no branches or leaves in the background area.

I'd say VERY FIRMLY to get rid of anything that is in front of the camera or don't point the cam in that direction. This is hard in some places because of the brush. It seems that where you have a good place to put the cam there's always a bush/tree in the background. And where there isn't a bush or tree in the background there's no place to hang the camera.

So, north/south and point the cam at an open space.

[spectr17]

The other thing to consider is there may be something small in your pic you don't see. Mice, snakes, rabbits etc. Make sure you look at your pic real close, I found many small animals with a magnifying glass. Of course if the pics are popping one after another it's probably the sun and wind. A random shot of nothing you should take a closer look. Even a bird flying though will trigger a cam with no pic of it.

There also is no true direction to aim the cam as the sun changes it orbit with the seasons. You just have to experiment with each area and use trial and error.

[henmar77]

The other thing to consider is there may be something small in your pic you don't see. Mice, snakes, rabbits etc. Make sure you look at your pic real close, I found many small animals with a magnifying glass. Of course if the pics are popping one after another it's probably the sun and wind. A random shot of nothing you should take a closer look. Even a bird flying though will trigger a cam with no pic of it.

There also is no true direction to aim the cam as the sun changes it orbit with the seasons. You just have to experiment with each area and use trial and error.

that's for sure, I got 250 pics of birds, bees, humingbirds and flies!!

[BAJA]

Your right. One of my cameras I have set up to take video immediately after the pic. I assume that on my blank pic a deer or animal, activated the shutter because on the video that follows I have seen fawns appear seconds later. I also have pictures a minute apart of shadows and this will go on for hours on in.

[Gary a.k.a. Buck]

How high are you hanging them? got one about 3 months ago its the ir 2 version. Ive gone every 2 or three weeks there's always a few pics like 10 or so and it's of nothing. Now if it was wind wouldn't I have a lot more? the last time I moved it I hung it really low went up 3 weeks later same thing saw it had only 10 pics a couple of me walking away a couple of trees and finally a pic of a doe she put her face right up to it. shouldn't it have got her before she got that close? It also got a bear but it only got the top of it's back and head. I must still have it to high??

[BAJA]

I aim my lense at about three feet high. Dont put it a foot or two from the trail. I put mine approximately 10 to 15 feet from where the game would pass that way the the sensor will activate when the game is in frame. I've noticed that if the game passes closer to the camera thats when you get a image with no game because the senser activated after the game passed.

[Rob P.]

I'm hanging my camera at about 8 feet high and angling the unit so that it points across the trail at deer body height. I'm also off the game trail about 10 feet or so.

The height should keep bears from chewing up the camera. It also should be high enough that smaller animals don't trigger it. However, if flies can do that, then there's not much hope that I'll only get pics of larger animals. But hey, it's digital and I can quickly review the images and dump the ones with nothing large in them.

I'm going back in this Friday and swapping the card on my camera and moving it a bit further down the game trail in the direction game should be headed for the day time hours. There's a HUGE oak tree in that direction right at the edge of the sagebrush line and maybe the deer are eating acorns and/or bedding down in the brush. By getting the camera into that location I can get pics of them and see what they are doing. At that point I can try to find where they are heading next. Eventually I will find their bedding area and be between there and the feeding area come hunting season.