Wonderful pictures. I live in the suburbs where deer, skunks and raccoons inhabit a nearby hillside, but no bobcats that I know of. Thanks for the great shots.

Great pictures. I need to get a new camera soon, there is so much that I am missing. Will be posting my attempts soon.

I love watching the Brown Creepers. They are adorable. And that picture you got of the opossum is pretty cute too.

Well, you're sure getting great results with that Canon 40D - love the Brown Creeper. I've only seen one here once or twice, and that was before I even had a digital camera.

Claire

Rachel - those last three pics are with your trail cam???? If so, it is MUCH better than ours. Ours is a Moutrie 5.0 and we have been quite disappointed with the quality of pics. Still debating whether we should return it or not. I know this is OT for this thread, but could you please tell me more about yours - and others that you have tried?

Great pics of the brown creeper - that's a hard one to get.

Thanks,
Ann

Thanks-getting a Brown Creeper that close, while actually holding a camera, with sun behind me, has never happened before! I heard it coming and got ready, just had a fraction of second to get it, and had to focus though intervening branches, so it was a serendipity

Trail cams could be considered OFF TOPIC, but I frequently get photos of wild turkeys, have also captured photos of owls, hawks, and ducks, etc. I usually put the cam on top of the mountain behind our house near a pond.

2-27-09, Farm pond trail, Eastern Screech Owl making a catch, 12:22 a.m.

4-25-09, Our pond, American Crow, 2:44 p.m.

5-4-09, Our pond, male Wood Duck, 11:10 a.m.

4-27-09, juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk nailing frog (?) 6:33 a.m.

I bought the Non-typical Cuddeback Capture game cam last Feb. It uses a regular flash and is fast, clear, works perfectly, but animals quickly learn to avoid the flash, so I kept trying to buy an infra-red cam, but in vain.

Even though I bought one IR cam after another they had to be returned because NONE OF THEM WORKED; in all of them the sensors were too slow to capture passing animals unless they hung around in front of the cam, the cams all had blurry low-quality images, and two had malfunctioning software.
Fortunately, the companies supplied shipping labels for returns.

These are the cams I bought

March 26- HCO ScoutGuard SG550 5MP Infrared Hunting Game & Scouting Trail Camera
May 18-Stealth Cam Rogue IDVR with 36 Infrared Emitters
June 1-Timber Eye 5 megapixel game camera from the Sportman's guide.

Finally, June 30, I bought a 2009 Cuddeback Capture IR 5.0MP Digital Game Camera on Amazon, thinking this would solve my problem, since the first Cuddeback works so well.

At first the new cam sort of worked, although the images were blurry even in daylight, it was very slow-often completely missing us when we walked back and forth in front of the cam each day to test it. After a month the cam suddenly stopped working altogether and I returned it.

I've read really good reviews on Amazon on the Leaf River IR trail cams. Here's one model on Amazon, but there's no review for this one

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Flash-5Mp-View-Mots/dp/B001F0MERG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1264032284&sr=1-2

There's a more expensive model that also has audio

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-7Mp-2-4-View-Mots/dp/B001F0O5NC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1264032284&sr=1-1

Well that is frustrating. So the ones above were with a flash model? The Capture?

You are saying that none of the IR ones you have tried gave good quality images, right? (in addition to the other issues)

When I go to the Cuddeback web site, they have a photo gallery with some very nice images, but I can't find info on which camera took the shot.

Now I'm even more confused on what to do.

Ann

All the models I listed, except for the regular flash Non-typical Cuddeback Capture I bought last Feb. are IR (infra-red). The regular flash on the first Cuddeback annoys the animals and I seldom get any animal at night more than once as they immediately alter their routes to avoid the cam. This is obvious when snow is on the ground; animals circle into the woods or go around the pond to avoid triggering the sensor-merging back onto the trail a few feet beyond the reach of the sensor, although daytime photos seem O.K. with some.

I don't blame them-every time I pass the trail cam at night and the flash goes off I startle so hard I nearly injure myself.

I read rave reviews on a 3 megapixel $200 Leaf River IR trail cam model last year, but that particular model is no longer offered on Amazon. The newer Leaf River IR models I listed could work as well but I spent so much money at Christmas I never bought one as I had intended.

I may have spoken too soon.
We had ice and rain for the past few days and when I retrieved the SD card from the top of the mnt it was empty again.
Dunno what to think..guess tomorrow I'll check the fresh SD card I put in the cam this afternoon. Maybe the Cuddeback is kaput now??

These are the last photos I got from it the past week

1-22-10, Gray Fox on pond trail (poor angle), 4:21 a.m. {{gwi:1354931}}From Christmas 2009

1-23-10, Female Gray Fox in fog, 3:10 a.m.

1-23-10, Female Bobcat, 6:49 a.m.

The photos aren't too bad -when the Cuddeback works, that is.
To compare, here's one I took this afternoon through the window with the hand held Canon 40D of a Carolina Chickadee on the heated bird bath {{gwi:1354934}}From Christmas 2009

Wow, that is a fantastic shot of the Chickadee. The shine in his eyes, and the reflection of his toes in the water is really eye-catching. I love it.