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Animal crossroads. The place where all the trails intersect…
Look how lucky can be one well-installed camera trap f. Amazing video! I wonder if the person who installed it was just lucky or if he is an experienced hunter and ranger.
Animal trails are the clearest and most trampled near rivers, lakes and other watering places.
And the most unpleasant thing is that the further away they are from the watering hole, the more they diverge, branch out, and almost get lost in the thicket of the forest. They are difficult to track even for very experienced hunters. They become invisible to humans. Animals find their paths unmistakably thanks to their sense of smell, but humans have a bad sense of smell. So it turns out that the path found in a person's misunderstanding "suddenly suddenly ended."
Berries and mushrooms grow well along animal trails, because animals carry their seeds and spores on their paws, hooves and in their stomachs, and bears, for example, often make trails to berry fields or along berry fields, such as raspberries.
Finding such an animal crossroads is a special piece of luck. Let's see how this can be done.
How to understand that the trail is bestial
It winds and splits into smaller paths that converge and then diverge:
🐾 The certified trail is the most trampled at the watering hole. If the trail is decreasing, it means you are moving away from the watering place.
🐾 If the path runs through clay in places, then you can distinguish animal tracks. In general, sometimes animals go out on human trails, but usually their tracks just cross our roads.
🐾 Animals leave their excrement right on the trail along the way. People leave behind a variety of human garbage. Unfortunately, in this case, the garbage will definitely tell you that this is not an animal trail.
🐾 If branches converge low over the path and you have to bend down so that they don't slap your face, then the path clearly belongs to one of the quadrupeds – wolves, wild boars, bears.
🐾 If the path is clearly uncomfortable, it means an animal path. The human path does not make sharp illogical loops, there are no large branches lying on it. A person removes all this from the road and generally lays out a more or less clear, direct route. The animals do not remove the branches from their path, but simply step over them.
Separately about the bears
Along his trails, he breaks young trees and makes marks on large trees with his claws. These are deep, well-visible scratches. He also scratches his back against the trunks of large trees, leaving hairs on the bark.
But a bear, for example, can go out on a human trail to leave its marks and thereby show that it is not happy with the presence of a human.
Seeking Sun
Amountain lion kills an elk calf in a wooded area of Taos, New Mexico. It happens in a small clearing that leads to one million undeveloped acres of Carson National Forest. That clearing is Garrett Vene Klasen’s front yard and he has a front-row seat for the wildest feast he’s ever witnessed. There’s only one problem. He doesn’t have the right camera.
“The right camera would have made a huge difference,” says Garrett Vene Klasen, hunter and New Mexico Wild northern conservation director. “All I had was the camera on my doorbell, which is sad.”
The shots from that doorbell camera are low-grade grainy and the audio sounds stuffed with earwax. You can tell what’s going on as long as you’re in range of the home’s Wi-Fi, but the experience is lackluster due to poor resolution and limited capabilities. Bushnell eliminates all that let down with its remote trail camera, CelluCore 20 Solar.
“The biggest advantage is it’s real-time information relayed over cellular networks rather than range-limiting Wi-Fi,” says Jacob Thomason, Bushnell senior product manager.
Thomason lives in Mississippi, but he has trail cameras on hunting spots in four different states. He can check any of them at any time through the Bushnell app on his phone and he knows the batteries won’t die because the cams are solar-powered.
“I have some in Missouri that I haven’t checked in person for 18 months,” he says. “They run year round. They’re in a spot that has good sunlight so I just let them roll.”
Bushnell’s CelluCore 20 Solar trail camera comes with an adjustable solar panel. The included rechargeable battery provides enough juice for 70 high-resolution images per day in full sun on its own. The solar panel also extends battery life for the other 12 lithium AAs inside the unit providing more file capture capacity.
“In the Southeast, we have deer over bait so 70 images per day is about right,” Thomason says. “In Missouri and South Dakota, deer are not on bait. It’s a water tank and I might get 20 images a day. On a trail, 70 is plenty unless it’s a heavily used trail.”
In addition to photos, rely on the unmanned solar cam for HD video with sound plus consistently clear shots at night with a range of 80 feet. As for cellular coverage, the device connects to AT&T and Verizon giving you real-time access on your phone while also allowing you to review images and change camera settings remotely.
“Remote trail cams use more batteries than conventional trail cams,” Thomason says. “Solar is great because it maintains battery a lot longer and you don’t have to go to the camera to get data.”
As for the October cougar-elk saga in Taos, Vene Klasen wished for a reliable, remote trail cam when he was away and watched the scene from his front room window whenever he was home. That 150-pound elk calf turned into meals for not only the cougar but also bear, bobcat, and birds. The carcass shrunk to a pile of bones in three days. Three days that would have been captured with brilliance by the right camera.
“Trail cameras have evolved so much and you just never know when an opportunity is going to present itself,” Vene Klasen says. “Like when there’s this really big bull or buck that shows up or a mountain lion taking down a kill in your fr
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MAIN SPECIFICATIONS
Sensor
640x480 @ 17 µm
Objective lens
F50/1.2
Magnification, x
2 – 16
FOV (HxV)
degrees / m@100m
12.4x9.3 / 21.8x16.3
Detection range
1800 m
RETICLE
Click range, H/V, mm at 100m
4200/4200
Click value, H/V, mm at 100m
21 / 21 (on minimum magnification)
Number of preloaded reticles
10
SENSOR
Type
uncooled
Resolution, pixels
640x480
Pixel pitch, µm
17
Frame rate, Hz
50
OPTICS
Objective lens
F50/1.2
Magnification, x
2 – 16
FOV (HxV)
degrees / m@100m
12.4x9.3 / 21.8x16.3
Eye relief, mm
50
DISPLAY
Type
AMOLED HD
Resolution, pixels
1024x768
LASER RANGEFINDER
Max. measuring range, m
1000
Measurement accuracy, m
± 1
Safety class for laser equipment
according to IEC 60825-1:2014
1
Wavelength, nm
905
VIDEO RECORDER
Video / photo resultion, pixel
1024x768
Video / photo format
.mp4 / .jpg
Build-in memory, GB
16
Build-in memory capacity
150 min video or ˃10 000 pictures
WI-FI
Wireless standard
802,11 b/g
Frequency, Ghz
2,4
ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS
IPX7 (waterproof)
