Trail Cam Diary
Two years ago, we planted some sweetcorn and had an excellent stand growing. Then something started foraging among the ears and I was pretty sure it was raccoons so I used the opportunity to buy something I had always wanted, a trail camera. I installed it and soon found out indeed it was raccoons... ... with the help of their lookout, Mr. Opossum. I'm not sure what he was doing out there. Perhaps they eat sweetcorn too. Anyway, we decided back then after we got just a few ears out of a couple hundred ears, that we would just buy our sweetcorn from then on. Many grow it around here and it is easy to find in street corners being sold off the back of pickup trucks when in season for very reasonable prices. I removed the batteries from my trail camera and stuck it in a cabinet in my office and pretty much forgot about it. Flash forward to right after I made the decision to electrify our garden fence but before I had received the charger, I thought about the trail camera and set it