Pictures from the Trail

Deer hunting season is not far off.  For those of you outside of the Cheesehead Empire this is a major holiday.  Schools shut down in some places.  Factories and businesses barely pretend to be open, perhaps just doing scheduled maintenance.  And the effort people go to in the quest of a brag worthy mighty antlered buck can get ridiculous.  It is not unusual for hunters to place multiple trail cameras out in their preferred spots, and to carefully correlate the location and time of appearance of individual critters.

We are just looking for a bit of family time and venison, so our efforts are casual, nay, they are slapdash.  I put the camera out here and there and get images of this and that.  For instance:

I set this cover a wide vista.  But I made a crucial mistake.  The little branch in front of the camera had a few jaunty fall leaves on it.  They blew in the wind,  giving me 300 images of blurry leaves and nothing else.  Live and learn.

OK, that's more like it.  Our tentative tree stand spots have various designations.  Tree Plantation.  Parker's side.  This is from Deer Highway.

The question of what will actually turn up on camera is interesting and with the cheap models we use there is no sensitivity setting.  So only occasionally do you capture a smaller denizen of the forest such as this jaunty squirrel.

Some "targets" are of course so big they can't be missed - photographically of course.  It seems from the images that there is enough delay of the shutter that we get lots of pictures of the rear end of animals.  So many "deer butt" pictures as my grandson calls them.  And this black bear that strolled past, well, his butt looks big from any angle.