Larry R
Old Mossy Horns
Hadn't been in awhile and they were calling for snow overnight. I have captured more yotes on deer cams when it's raining or snowing/snow on the ground. Over the last week I have added the intestines of 4 deer to the bait pile. Thought maybe it might be supper time for some yotes.
Got into the condo about 5 45 p.m. and got everything set up. I don't know if I mentioned it was C O L D (27 degrees and already down to 27 tonight) so the yotes oughta be hungry. About 6 55 had my first visitor, a grey fox. But he didn't stay, more or less passed thru. It wasn't long before he returned with the Ms. and they sat down for supper. I know they visited at least 6 different times throughout the night.
Next was a possum and it didn't even stop at the bait pile, just went right thru and kept on trucking. Not long afterwards three of them showed up at the bait pile at one time but they weren't very sociable, and stayed on the corners as far away from each other as possible and still eat. Individually they showed up a half dozen times over the night also.
Next was a red fox. It acted more like a cat in reality, jumping and climbing all over the bait pile. It stayed for quite a while and all of a sudden it was a blur and gone. I was sure something "important" was coming but it never came into the bait pile. My nephew works for the DOT and they have him on standby at the shop. He borrowed one of my night vision binoculars so I was handicapped. Had the one pair set up on the bait pile and with the night vision camera set up on the left and the rifle out the window I couldn't swivel the binocs around to see if I could locate whatever it was that put the fear of God into the red fox.
Next was a skunk, almost completely white except for a little black around the bottom of the body and legs. It stayed about 30 minutes before waddling off up the side of the mountain.
Next was a monster fat coon and he helped him/herself to an above average meal. I think I heard it burp a time or two. LOL.
The ironic thing last night was that most of the animals came in from a direction other than their normal direction of entry. They also departed in other than normal directions. Haven't figured their reasons out yet.
One time I saw eyes which I was pretty sure were coyote eyes and immediately to the right I saw another set of eyes that also looked to me like coyote. I switched over to the rifle and by the time I got the scope turned on they were completely gone.
I did take several video clips mostly of the two grey foxes. If you remember not long ago I posted about how clear the digital night vision camera filmed. Here is another great example of just how clear the camera works and just to think that it cost less than $400. If you notice "white out" when I pan to the left to film the second fox the white out was caused when I panned to far to the left and some of the infrared back feed was reflected by the window frame on the condo. The actual video clarity when there is no IR flash back is demonstrated when filming the fox on the right. They were approximately 50 yards from my condo and the sky was completely overcast. Note also he/she is taking a midnight snack home with him/her. LOL.
http://vid13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/LarryRussell/LarryRussell147/DNVM0001.mp4
Got into the condo about 5 45 p.m. and got everything set up. I don't know if I mentioned it was C O L D (27 degrees and already down to 27 tonight) so the yotes oughta be hungry. About 6 55 had my first visitor, a grey fox. But he didn't stay, more or less passed thru. It wasn't long before he returned with the Ms. and they sat down for supper. I know they visited at least 6 different times throughout the night.
Next was a possum and it didn't even stop at the bait pile, just went right thru and kept on trucking. Not long afterwards three of them showed up at the bait pile at one time but they weren't very sociable, and stayed on the corners as far away from each other as possible and still eat. Individually they showed up a half dozen times over the night also.
Next was a red fox. It acted more like a cat in reality, jumping and climbing all over the bait pile. It stayed for quite a while and all of a sudden it was a blur and gone. I was sure something "important" was coming but it never came into the bait pile. My nephew works for the DOT and they have him on standby at the shop. He borrowed one of my night vision binoculars so I was handicapped. Had the one pair set up on the bait pile and with the night vision camera set up on the left and the rifle out the window I couldn't swivel the binocs around to see if I could locate whatever it was that put the fear of God into the red fox.
Next was a skunk, almost completely white except for a little black around the bottom of the body and legs. It stayed about 30 minutes before waddling off up the side of the mountain.
Next was a monster fat coon and he helped him/herself to an above average meal. I think I heard it burp a time or two. LOL.
The ironic thing last night was that most of the animals came in from a direction other than their normal direction of entry. They also departed in other than normal directions. Haven't figured their reasons out yet.
One time I saw eyes which I was pretty sure were coyote eyes and immediately to the right I saw another set of eyes that also looked to me like coyote. I switched over to the rifle and by the time I got the scope turned on they were completely gone.
I did take several video clips mostly of the two grey foxes. If you remember not long ago I posted about how clear the digital night vision camera filmed. Here is another great example of just how clear the camera works and just to think that it cost less than $400. If you notice "white out" when I pan to the left to film the second fox the white out was caused when I panned to far to the left and some of the infrared back feed was reflected by the window frame on the condo. The actual video clarity when there is no IR flash back is demonstrated when filming the fox on the right. They were approximately 50 yards from my condo and the sky was completely overcast. Note also he/she is taking a midnight snack home with him/her. LOL.
http://vid13.photobucket.com/albums/a267/LarryRussell/LarryRussell147/DNVM0001.mp4