Almost everyday, my birdbath is knocked over, curiosity finally got the best of me and I bought a trail camera. This one was actually on sale at my local Bass Pro for $99, it was one of the few I found that is 1080 resolution at a pretty cheap price. https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/bushnell-trophy-…

Nice detective work! I love these trail cams, and as you say, there are some inexpensive models available now that are within the budget of nearly everyone but are still capable of taking some great pictures and video. I’m been using some of the “apeman” brand cams available on Amazon with good su…

There’s a good facebook group Trail Camera Photos and Videos , probably we should do more iNat advertising there. :thinking:

The local “trash pandas” are quite mischievous at my place as well. The lastest wildlife vandalism I’ve experienced has been a fox squirrel tearing up a patio cushion… presumably out of boredom since no material was taken for nesting or other purposes. I dipped my toe in the game/trail camera space …

TIL iNat supports animated gifs! My own trail-cam is going to see more use now I think.

First test, keeping with the Trash-Panda theme: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37494181

I used it to capture Primrose, our resident opossum. :slightly_smiling_face: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37459179

I was really excited for trying this but I get a 504 gateway time-out when I try to upload the gifs to iNaturalist. :( Edit:Nevermind, apparently just took a long time to upload. This is really cool though, here some small mammals under an Estonian bush: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?pla…

We’ve been using a Raspberry Pi based My Nature Watch camera which comes as a kit. Ours is the visible light version but you can get an IR camera (there are also two different wide angle cameras too). Here are the observations we’ve made so far: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?q=My%20Natu…

[image] stanvrem: here some small mammals under an Estonian bush Did you bring the camera with you when traveling or did you get it locally? (wondering if there are good affordable cameras here in Estonia so I can get cute mice too :smile:)

what kind of camera is that? haven’t worked with any that can do such close-up video, pretty cool

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