Happens to me now and then too. Reformatting the SD card is normally what I do and it's fine the next time I check it.

Bobcats evening stroll down by the river.

Inspired by your wild boar debacle in the backyard. These trail cams are great!

I'll stick with my fox, racoon and opossum! Neat shot!

I'll check it this afternoon. The camera I have is very good but I would like one that bluetooths the phone. Easier to access what has been recorded. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

How about this guy :)?


If you could look up you would see my cabin about 50 yards up the hill.

It is just really something the things that go on when one is not paying attention.

Here is the local Rodent Control Officer.

Hahaha..yep. We have a red shouldered hawk that hunts our feeders. I watched him swoop in one morning dove ground feeding. Gone in a second.

A few years ago at the same time in the evening our feeder would start shaking. It is dark and we could not see what was shaking the feeder. We sure could hear the feeder rattling around. I decided to set our trap thinking it was another rat. We get one or two a year. I trap them and drive them off to a field and let them go. So, this is what was rattling the feeder at the same time every night. Flying squirrel. I release the bugger back into the yard. The missus is ok with critters. Just not rat critters.

https://youtu.be/hciLebxtrII

Got plenty of these around to back them up. They get bigger every year too. I suspect they are breeding with Grey Wolves.

@August It's busy in your neck of the woods.

Upstate Maine got lots of critters. :)

@August I replaced the batteries in the cam. Reformatted. It is back to recording. I have the masked bandit at the squirrel feeder Wednesday night. I let the cam to keep recording. See what else is showing up at the buffet.

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What I'm dealing with now. Ground wasps! Discovered this nest by getting stung 13 times. :wah:

https://youtu.be/rzLGge_T5HI

Aggressive species? I got stung by Wasps just twice in my life, and never by bees although having been around bee farms repeatedly, having them flying around and crawling on me in numbers.



Bees I always liked. Maybe they like me, too.

Gas and a well placed match will take care of that. I ran over a nest once while cutting grass. Felt my hand burning. Looked down to see hornets just stinging away. Gas and a match.

I have some good footage of my masked bandit. I will post it soon.

Why not leaving them alone if they do not hunt you down? I had Wasps under my roof twice, they swarmed on my loggia. I let them do their thing, and they did not take much interest in me. Neighbours were near hysteria, I said in autumn the show is over. And thats what happened: a few weeks later the show was over.

Gassing them in Grmany would get you into serious and very costly troubles. Tens of thousands of coins are possible penalties. Letting them being removed by specialists is only allowed under circumstances when they pose a risk to the public. And even then they usually get relocated, not wiped out.

Thats why I asked about the species, whether it is explicitly aggressive. If not, just leave them alone. Time passing by will do away with them soon enough.

Typical city dweller has no clue of the dangers that an underground yellow jacket nest poses to anyone nearby. :roll: