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I had to look this bird up; I thought it was a young wild turkey at first.

Thanks for watching Bro.

Sometimes the microphones work, and sometimes they don't. The three main problems with these cams: complete failure of the audio, a loud power hum in the audio, and failure of the night vision. But all in all, these cams are affordable, and have performed fairly well.

@@TrailCamsNorthwest-vx7nr agreed From a viewers perspective

Thank you very much!

Elk are like a bull in a china shop; they just stomp through the forest, not caring how much noise they make.

If that's the case, those are some very tall trees 😁

Yes, so far, it's the bear and the elk that really mess with the cameras. I've had bear scratch them and even get the door open, but It's the elk that have actually torn them off trees and drag the cams away by the strap. I've recovered one cam 50 feet away, and in the bushes.

Thanks

Yes, you are correct. I should have said the microphone is failing, because it's a lot quieter than it should be. When they work, these Meidase cameras work very well. The first thing that seems to fail on them is the audio; it either fails completely, or there will be no audio except a loud power hum. The second most common failure is the night vision stops working. And the third most common failure is the internal screen used for the settings fails and the time/date and other settings cannot be changed. Over the last 6 years I've bought close to 75 of these cams, and on any given day I have 40 or so operational. I've had 5 fail completely, 3 stolen (or missing), 4 or 5 destroyed by elk or bear, and a dozen or so experiencing partial failure. But still, it's a fun hobby😁

I thought that myself, except I didn't see him spinning like in that cartoon 😁

@@TrailCamsNorthwest-vx7nr 😂

Yes, now I know.

You might be on to something there 😁

Maybe a small one.

Or a baby one?

Possibly

Thanks for watching. And it looks like she doesn't have a care in the world. She just looked for where our cameras are, and decided to hang out in front of them 😁

Synchronized elk ballet😁

Yeah, could you imagine setting up a large mirror out here? Some bull elk would smash it for mocking him. With that said, I think this shows how precise the instincts are for herd animals. Even when they are stampeding, you don't see them running into each other.

Thanks for stopping by. I'm not 100% sure, but I am pretty sure, that this bull did not survive the season. There are 3 large herds that roam just outside of town so pretty much everyone here knows where they are at any given time, and keep us updated on who got "got," and who made it to live another year.

I too would be spooked if I saw Clay 😁

The only answer

The truth cannot be concealed 😁

I believe they call that synchronized swimming 😁

He is a big-un. And as beautiful as he looks, an elk that sized can do you some damage if you stumble upon him at the wrong time 😁

A possibility. Or maybe he is showing us what he thinks about these cameras 😁

Apparently so. For the most part, all times and dates on the cams are correct unless I put a message on the screen saying they are off. After a year or so in the woods, these cheap (but pretty good quality cameras) sometimes have screen issues which make resetting the time/date after a battery change impossible. We had half a dozen screens fail, but the cam still works fine. Without the screen there is no way to change the settings. But 6 cams out of over 40 is not a horrible failure rate for cams that run between $29.99 and $68 (all for the same cam, so I try to pick them up when they go on sale).

@@TrailCamsNorthwest-vx7nr you run 49 cams at a time? I have been slowly adding to my collection and was wondering if there was such a thing as too much. But I just really love the idea of keeping tabs on as many spots as possible all year. Do you run cams in all your honey holes? New areas you’re trying to get a bead on? I’m fairly new to running cameras but I’ve come to realize that I find a lot of joy just running the cameras. Checking them after a long soak is like how Christmas morning used to feel back in the day 🤣

I run these cams with the help of a couple of friends. They are hunters, I no longer am. The cams are located in the areas they hunt (all within a few miles of town), so not very far off the highway and easily accessible via logging roads. It helps them keep track of the herds and helps determine where bear and cougar dens are located. They get the animal location info, and I get the videos😁 So, I buy the cams, cards, and batteries and we all take turns checking up on them and collecting the cards. Most of the cams are the Meidase cams that cost between $30-$70 on Amazon depending on if they are on sale or not (good quality videos but they tend to fail after a year or so). I bought a couple of Stealth Cam cell cams, and a couple of Spypoint cell cams, and none of us have been happy with either of their quality, or reliability. As mentioned, these cams are accessible to drive to, but to make things easier I purchased two high-end E-bikes from Super73, and they are perfect for checking the cams. Fast, silent, and can go anywhere. And on the occasions that the timber companies have the gates closed, those E-bikes are perfect. We have the cams set up on two main strings; it takes a couple hours to check each camera string, so we rarely check both strings on the same day. And you can never have too many cameras. I've even started putting 2 or 3 cams in the same location, to try and capture different views (and sometimes cams fail or fail to trigger; I'd hate to miss the video of a lifetime due to camera failure). There is a large cougar we've been tracking, and our cams have only been able to catch glimpses of him. I'm hoping the multiple camera angles will help get a good vid of him. And yes, there is a Christmas like thrill when reviewing the cam footage. I reviewed a batch of 20 SD cards yesterday, and in addition to the usual deer, elk, and coyotes, I got a short clip of a mama bear and two very small cubs, some good bobcat clips, and several clips of some good-sized turkey-like bird (I'll have to research that one). But I really hope for some good black bear videos, or maybe a fox, and I really want to capture some good clear cougar video...and of course the holy grail of vids would be a wolf (which are very rare around here). And there is also that disappointment of reviewing a card from a cam that's been soaking for months, and it'll only have 2 or 3 vids on it😒

Thanks for watching, I'm subbed to your channel.

It's a spot in front of our camera where both a bobcat and several coyotes are scent marking (peeing in the same place to claim it as their property).

In my area we see this all over the place, and as cool as they look, they can be a big nuisance. There are several places next to the highway, where the elk will graze in the fields, and people stop their cars to take pics, causing some dangerous situations. And occasionally the elk will cross the highway, and you really don't want to hit one. At highway speed hitting an elk, you probably won't be around to tell the tale.

Wild bear videos are like spider videos here on UA-cam; best to see them thru my computer screen, then to run into them in the wild 😁

Well, since it was not intended to be anything other than what I stated, you are not my target audience. I upload game cam/trail cam videos, and apparently you just mistakenly watched one. Go in peace, and prosper in your endeavors.

Probably something to do with the snow-fall.

@@TrailCamsNorthwest-vx7nr No shit Sherlock..............

Predator in camo mode

Best comment of the week!

Yeah, there are a couple of the big ones around this area where my cams are located.

I agree, but don't forget this is what they are built for. For the most part, humans have the brains but lack the abilities that these animals have.

My camera wouldn't be fast enough to get a clear video of that.

Thanks; the trick is to have enough cameras to catch random videos like this. We currently have about 30 operational cameras, and 15 failed, broken, or damaged cameras we use for spare parts.

Thanks; the forest is full of animals that people rarely see. So, if you have enough cameras in the field, it's not hard to get lucky 😃

Thanks; we've tried a scent wash, and I don't think it really works. And yes, bears and elk, and the occasional coyote do mess with the cameras, it's not as common as I'd expect. Also, and I'm sure this is a result of the scent (human or plastic), animals will walk by the camera, stop and look at it before moving on. So at least there is a plus side to it.

Thanks; for some reason elk are drawn to these cameras, rather than being afraid of them. So far, elk have done the most damage to our cameras. Bears claw and try to bite them and have even opened the camera doors and cracked the plastic lens protectors on a few of them. But elk have actually torn the cameras down and dragged them away. Only one camera the elk tore down has been recovered in operational condition.

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Or he's just pretending he does not want to have his pic taken, when in fact he's doing the closeup trying to get discovered.

Sometimes we all have an itch, that we just can't reach.

We all do once in a while.

So far, only elk have been able to rip my cameras from the trees. But it's the bear, that've been able to get the camera doors open, crack the screens, and scratch the lens covers.

@@TrailCamsNorthwest-vx7nr I had a friend lose 2 game cams to the same grizzly bear…lol…literally tore them off the tree and chewed them to pieces. He no longer has cams in that area.

Yeah, that sux. With my cams the bears use their mouth and claws on them, with only occasional success. But the elk, tug and chew on the straps, and I've had 3 or 4 cams removed that way. Only one of them was recovered operational; it was in the bushes several yards away covered with ants. I need to try and find that video and get it uploaded.

@@TrailCamsNorthwest-vx7nr sorry to hear you lost cams, I know they’re not cheap.

Thanks, but as they say: it's just the cost of doing business. The funny thing is, I'd been more afraid of people stealing them, than animals destroying them. I have had people open them and check the footage, I've had people yell at them and insult me, I've had people turn them off and even had one SD card removed from a cam, and of course I've had a few people play the fool in front of the camera. But the only cam I've lost to "people" was last week we found out one of the cams has been logged. Now it's a clearcut where the cam once was, oh well...it happens.