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Camera trap delights (1 Viewer)
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MarkHows
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Some night goings on in my garden / garage
http://www.birdforum.tv/members/action/viewvideo/4375/
Mark
http://www.birdforum.tv/members/action/viewvideo/4375/
Mark
Marcus Conway - ebirder
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Farnboro John
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Is that your cat, Marcus? Its got some fairly duff features!
Liike the Pine Marten though.
John
Marcus Conway - ebirder
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Farnboro John
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I have difficulty believing that is the same cat, but you are the man on the spot!
This image looks a heck of a lot more convincing. What are you using for your night pix?
John
COLOMBIA Birding
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since my last post there is been quite a lot of great action with the camera traps near Medellin...
OCELOT & PUMA!!
http://www.aburranatural.org/index.php?p=1_73
http://www.aburranatural.org/index.php?p=1_78
Marcus Conway - ebirder
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Will try some different positions and see if we can get more images. Am not ruling out two cat theory.
Jane Turner
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That one with the evil laser eyes is pretty distinctive
Farnboro John
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Just to put some meat on the bones of this discussion (but I am not ruling out one cat theory!):
The black and white images appear to show a cat with a fat tail but a line up the dorsal surface through the rings, and a line extending off the rump onto the tail. This is bad. The body and haunches look as iff stripes break up into spots, which isn't great either.
The colour image shows a cat with even rings, complete stripes and no line from the rump onto the tail. As an added extra the small head and reduced ruff suggest a female. Its a cracking pic of what I consider a good Wildcat.
The flare on the eyes is caused by the reflective tapetum layer behind the retina, which allows carnivores to improve night vision by doubling the effect on the retina of any light that arrives there. So far as I know the only solution is an offset flash.
John
The black and white images appear to show a cat with a fat tail but a line up the dorsal surface through the rings, and a line extending off the rump onto the tail. This is bad. The body and haunches look as iff stripes break up into spots, which isn't great either.
The colour image shows a cat with even rings, complete stripes and no line from the rump onto the tail. As an added extra the small head and reduced ruff suggest a female. Its a cracking pic of what I consider a good Wildcat.
The flare on the eyes is caused by the reflective tapetum layer behind the retina, which allows carnivores to improve night vision by doubling the effect on the retina of any light that arrives there. So far as I know the only solution is an offset flash.
John
Marcus Conway - ebirder
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nicklittlewood
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Just started operating a camera at a new site a short way inland of Aberdeen. Instant success with another Pine Marten, including some daytime images as below.
Of interest, there are some camera trap video clips, from another local site that we monitor, on the North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership Facebook page (maintained by my wife - she is the LBAP coordinator here): https://www.facebook.com/NorthEastScotlandBiodiversityPartnership. This page and the videos are still viewable if, like me, you are a Facebook denier without the need to sign in. For some interesting and amusing sequences scroll in particular to the clips posted on 6 April, 31 March and 9 March.
Cheers
Nick
Of interest, there are some camera trap video clips, from another local site that we monitor, on the North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership Facebook page (maintained by my wife - she is the LBAP coordinator here): https://www.facebook.com/NorthEastScotlandBiodiversityPartnership. This page and the videos are still viewable if, like me, you are a Facebook denier without the need to sign in. For some interesting and amusing sequences scroll in particular to the clips posted on 6 April, 31 March and 9 March.
Cheers
Nick
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Farnboro John
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Yes, I did manage to ID it, just!
Probably two cats then? I don't understand how the dorsal line can be there in the black and white and not in colour otherwise.
John
Capercaillie71
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After a gap of almost a year, I deployed my camera trap again last month in some woodland near my home. For the first time I tried baiting the trap, initially with a roe deer heart that a stalker had let me have. The bait was taken, but unfortunately due to poor positioning of the camera and not having the camera on the highest sensitivity setting, I did not get the culprit and only recorded two deer during the first week that the trap was out.
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Capercaillie71
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After this initial failure I repositioned the camera and baited it again with cat food, peanut butter and peanuts. Over the following 10 days, the camera was triggered on five occasions - it usually took 2-3 nights for animals to find the bait each time I renewed it.
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