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This is the camera I’m currently
using: A Bushnell Trophy Cam HD.
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Enjoy!
(BTW, I had around 1,500 pictures from 3 days. Once the seed was discovered, critters descended and burned up all my battery by December 20th! The camera was set until January 5th, but due to lots of action and/or frigid temps, the camera died.)
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The normally EXTREMELY territorial red
squirrel is shown here sharing the log with another red. They are known
for caching food in an accessible hiding spot, and then defending it. If
you’ve walked in a conifer stand, and heard someone “yelling” at you
from the trees, it was probably a red. I’m assuming because it’s winter,
these 2 were able to put aside their differences and munch amicably on
the seed within feet of each other.
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400 pictures “later” than the duo of
squirrels, I caught many pics of these 4 American Crows together. Crows
are often seen in groups, but what interests me now, is that they appear
to be eating the seed! Crows are opportunists, so they WILL eat
anything, but are not typically seen at a bird feeder eating bird seed.
Well, I suppose in the winter I’d eat bird seed too, if I had to.
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A handsome Blue Jay makes a brief appearance!
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Here are two species eating in harmony! The red squirrel and a Mourning Dove.
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Another multi-species picture. I see the American Goldfinches and Dark-eyed Juncos.
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Here’s Red, looking guilty? Did he just chase off the birds?
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And the last picture I found to be of
interest, has 3 different species in it! Can you find them all? From the
bottom of the picture up: Dark-eyed Junco, red squirrel, and a
Black-capped Chickadee.
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Super series, and I was so glad for the clues for the last one, those photos are so good. You still have lots of snow, are you on holiday?? Cheers from Jean.
ReplyDeleteJean, all that snow is from before Christmas! We've had exceptionally warm temps (40-50* F) the past few days and tons of rain....no more snow. I'm on break from college courses until next week!
DeleteRed squirrels are cute little buggers!
ReplyDeleteNice shots, I have several Reconyx trail cams but use them for wildlife, never tries the birds or squirrels. ;-)
ReplyDeleteGreat series of shots and lots of activity for sure. we are hoping to get our cameras out this weekend.
ReplyDeleteDo you like your HD? You seem to get good photos. I find that mine really underperforms. It's slow and photo/video quality is terrible. I suspected it was missing a lot so I put another cam pointed at the same scene from the same tree. The HD even missed a great big bear slowly lumbering through the scene. Unbelievable. Maybe I should try to find out if there's something wrong with it.
ReplyDeleteI love your winter seed-eating birds and reds! You do have lots of snow.