Trail Cam Elk

[macbullet]

This guy won't come out and play during legal hours... he likes to lick the camera and eat the phony leaves on the blind.

 

[Watchdog]

Great photos! I gotta get one of those trail cams.

 

[arjay]

He's trolling you!

 

[bullmack]

I have 3 cams up in BC and 6 here in Washington. Partially for security but also in prime critter locations. The elk and black bears seem to always have their nose right in the camera. This picture is from a black bear. I have dozens of similar elk pictures.

 

[macbullet]

I have 3 cams up in BC and 6 here in Washington. Partially for security but also in prime critter locations. The elk and black bears seem to always have their nose right in the camera. This picture is from a black bear. I have dozens of similar elk pictures.

I know what you mean, I have several with bears, elk, and deer staring at the camera. Something about the cameras that fascinate them.

 

[Watchdog]

I know what you mean, I have several with bears, elk, and deer staring at the camera. Something about the cameras that fascinates them.

The cameras have your scent on them. Even if the cameras have been outside in the weather...rain, snow, etc...to an animal's sensitive nose the cameras have still retained your scent. Ditto for the cloth/nylon straps or bungee cords holding the camera to the tree...they've absorbed smells from your house or truck or whatever, and those smells may include the scent of food. So they're going to investigate. They don't know what a "camera" is...but they know it's something different and they will look towards it trying to visually figure out what it is.

Wild animals aren't dumb. They're familiar with their environment and the objects in it. They see or smell something strange, they're either going to avoid it (flee) or they're going to check it out. This is particularly true of bears.

 

[woodsltc]

Good luck on your hunt. Looks like your blind is in a good place---you could just reach out and touch him.
I'm officially jealous..........I've missed the Colorado elk season for the last 3 years. Hope to be back out there next year.

Don

 

[Watchdog]

I got curious, because it just dawned on me (yeah, I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes) you have a camera pointed at your blind and the other camera. Why is that?

To see if any humans come along and fool with it maybe? Vandals or thieves? And it seems to have a very narrow field of view?

 

[amazingflapjack]

have been reading C.J.Box lately, so this is interesting, thanks!

 

[macbullet]

I got curious, because it just dawned on me (yeah, I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes) you have a camera pointed at your blind and the other camera. Why is that?

To see if any humans come along and fool with it maybe? Vandals or thieves? And it seems to have a very narrow field of view?

The second camera is to watch the blind as you thought. I've moved it farther away and have a batter view now.

 

[macbullet]

On one of the very few days when I wasn't there...

 

[CA Escapee]

I have 3 cams up in BC and 6 here in Washington. Partially for security but also in prime critter locations. The elk and black bears seem to always have their nose right in the camera. This picture is from a black bear. I have dozens of similar elk pictures.

The very first picture I got with my camera was of a raccoon about an inch from the flash at about 2 am. I imagine he couldn't see anything else until about noon.

Bill

 

[bgrafsr]

I have a "Stealth Cam" that I put up in the back yard to see if it would capture some deer pics when they come into the yard. All I got were videos of birds around the feeders.
Moved the camera to face the back of the yard and will try again.