Ever set up a trail-cam at your camp?

[andreindy]

At our last fly-in to Abamasagi (Nakina area), my brother brought a simple trail cam for fun. Every year I accumulate the groups trip pictures and stories and make a hardcover book that sits on the coffee table, so I was looking forward to seeing what it would capture. In hindsight, we should have put it on the small trail to the outhouse, but if it captured bears I would be performing counseling to a few of the lads. Ultimately we placed it across a bay from camp where we dump our fish gut buckets in a stand of trees.

We anticipated that the cam would capture ferocious bear battles over the gut pile or some rare arctic hyena...our minds got pretty imaginative and hopeful. What we did know is that every day the pile was being picked over pretty good. Once getting home to Wisconsin and looking at the footage it was a little anticlimactic: CROWS. Every single picture.

Anyhow, below is a pretty cool video from a team in Minnesota. They set up a trail cam in Voyageur park fora year and condensed all the animal sightings into a single video. Pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc6XdJAtcPQ

[Bill Krejca]

Wow! Thanks for the great footage. Beyond enjoyable!!!!

Bill

[johnboat]

Awesome!

[Wawajake]

My trail cam 100 yds from my house, we get a family every summer stealing the deer feed.

[Wawajake]

Bobcat a year ago on my atv trail to my sugar bush

[stjoeguy]

Very cool video. Thanks.

[andreindy]

Originally Posted by Wawajake

My trail cam 100 yds from my house, we get a family every summer stealing the deer feed.

Originally Posted by Wawajake

Bobcat a year ago on my atv trail to my sugar bush

The big cats always impress me. Wolves do too. Come to think of it, most animals that survive in the bush do.

['Taterguy]

Any idea what they spread on that tree?

[andreindy]

Originally Posted by 'Taterguy

Any idea what they spread on that tree?

Whatever it was, it stopped the animals in their tracks, right? They knew it was there...comments on the link said that the spot attracted attention for months and months afterwards.

[Wawajake]

I suspect the bear and maybe even the wolves are marking dominance on that particular tree. Here I have a pic of a bear on my sugar bush atv trail, in similar rubbing fashion. But my tree is treeI had my hands on in past becausr I nailed a direction sign on it. The second pic shows another bear again interested in that tree months later.