Critters In My Backyard: Take Two
For my second attempt at videoing critters behind my house, I moved the trail camera to a lower height hoping to see more critters like the raccoon and more of the deer bodies. The last camera had only caught the tops of them for the most part. While my change in height worked on the deer, they were all I captured this time around. I think next time I will move the camera to behind the garden up next to the woods to see if I might capture something different.
In this video you will see a closeup of mama deer and one of her twins, then you will see one of her twins get scared by some unseen thing, another twin will have an itch and finally you will see the twin fawns with their spots together presumably being called by their parents. I tried to add music but for some reason, my speakers weren't playing sound so it will be interesting to see if it shows up on this video.
Good job!
ReplyDeleteI'm learning. I'm glad the music is playing though had I been able to hear it when making the video, I probably wouldn't have chosen that selection. Maybe the next time I can use your blog post advice and remove the black bar at the bottom.
DeleteThanks for sharing Ed!
ReplyDeleteYou are most welcome.
DeleteOh my they would eat your entire garden if you didn't have a fence! You are talented putting together a You Tube video:)
ReplyDeleteThey did eat my entire crop of radishes that I seeded the garden down with last fall. That prompted the fence purchase.
DeleteThere's something about glowing eyes at night! This was fun and I look forward to more.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping for more diversity other than does and fawns. Perhaps I got lucky that first time with the raccoon and bucks. I know there is also a fox and bobcats in the area that would please me to walk in front of my game camera.
DeleteGreat job! There's something in the treeline at the back of that first shot of the deer -- what looks to me like a glowing eye. Perhaps that critter, whatever it was, startled the deer. I can see what I think are fireflies in the daytime video with the fauns. It looks like you have lots of insects flying around there, which is a good thing. (And yes, the music played!)
ReplyDeleteI think what you are seeing at night and daytime is pollen falling from the trees. I'll have to go back and look for the glowing eye in the video.
DeleteRewatching it, there are lots of bugs too and pollen. I think the glowing eye you are seeing is actually a light on our electric fence charger. In the daytime view, it is just behind the netting and not visible.
DeleteCan you have a bin of leftovers for them to eat - like setting food out for the family dog?
ReplyDeleteI think technically it would be illegal and considered baiting since deer are a game animal with hunting seasons here.
DeleteBut I do have a compost pile down below our garden which gets foraged by animals from time to time after we dump our large compost bin on it. Perhaps the next time that happens, I'll train my camera on it.
DeleteNature is awesome. Thanks for sharing. And I heard music while watching. (Hopefully, it's not just me.)
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't just you. Even I heard the music when reviewing the post after it published. But for some reason during the creation of it, I couldn't hear a thing.
DeleteI don't feel like there are many animals out there in my housing development but my neighbors say differently. No deer though--mostly raccoons, rabbits and possums.
ReplyDeleteI would guess there are lots of all of the last three you mentioned as they are highly adapted to urban environments. I've heard there are now more raccoons per square mile than at any time in history, at least in Iowa which is partly why it is now legal to shoot them out of season now as long as you don't collect the pelt.
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