Across the Log Bridge

The first six months of the year the camera trap at the log bridge yielded some interesting videos, but it was also a great disappointment. The camera failed in January and February and only got a handful of videos in March and April. Each time the rechargeable batteries were dead when I checked the camera. They’d shown as fully charged when removed from the charger – what was going on?

Eventually I traced the problem to the charger which showed as “Charging” for the normal time it took to charge a set of batteries and then showed that they were fully charged – but they weren't. I'd put them in the camera, after which they might have enough power to take a handful of videos – or none. I finally solved the problem after substituting another camera with different batteries, one that coincidentally has a wider field of view and yielded an abundance of videos.

Here’s the log bridge –

And here are the videos –

Did you notice the porcupine scent marking while crossing the log? They do that by rubbing and urinating on prominent objects as they walk.

For those of you that use camera traps (trail cameras), if you think the camera’s failed it may not be the camera, it may be the charger you use for rechargeable batteries – or your alkaline or lithium batteries, which
can be dead right out of the package.