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[walshie 2,804]

1 minute ago, Greyman said:

Good size rural fox there mate the urban cousins seem to be getting smaller read somewhere there is now a 40% size difference between the two,

Yeah, he's got a neck on him alright. I've seen him in daylight a few times and he's dark chestnut brown colour. There's a few that colour round here. 

[Greyman 28,594]

8 minutes ago, walshie said:

Yeah, he's got a neck on him alright. I've seen him in daylight a few times and he's dark chestnut brown colour. There's a few that colour round here. 

Would of been happy with that coat in years gone by, Surprising the colours you get I,ve had a pied one, which was a good size country fox quite yellowish in colour with white legs like a dog in colour and a jet black one, the black one was tiny almost like a different species, have seen another black one that was simular but no pics he used to hang out near a wood I had cameras in but I never caught him although he would often be seen early morning by the horse riders

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

Walshie; I've never used mine on Photo! If I want to show a 'photo', I just pause the clip and take a screen grab

Here's what I like about vid, see? See how - at around 16 to 20 - he goes over to that bank? Well, blow me; There's a sort of half hole, right there. It caught my attention too and I had a close look at it! I wouldn't have missed foxy checking it out for the world!

 

 

 

  I've no idea what went wrong this morning though. Just my (Or 'Greymans') luck! This is all the evidence I managed to get of what's known, locally - in hushed whispers amongst those in the know, of course - as " The Poole Panther "!

 

 

 

 

[Greyman 28,594]

20 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Walshie; I've never used mine on Photo! If I want to show a 'photo', I just pause the clip and take a screen grab

Here's what I like about vid, see? See how - at around 16 to 20 - he goes over to that bank? Well, blow me; There's a sort of half hole, right there. It caught my attention too and I had a close look at it! I wouldn't have missed foxy checking it out for the world!

 

 

 

  I've no idea what went wrong this morning though. Just my (Or 'Greymans') luck! This is all the evidence I managed to get of what's known, locally - in hushed whispers amongst those in the know, of course - as " The Poole Panther "!

 

 

 

 

Fog I recon mate story of my life that link I put up is the first black leopard filmed in the wild in Kenya in a 100 years I believe so you don’t have to beat yourself up to much,  just to add mate if you are Vimeo check out a guy called David neils  he has been camera trapping mountain lions for over 20 years and gives a lot of good sound advice, 

Edited December 15, 2020 by Greyman

[Ted Newgent 4,896]

4 hours ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Back on topic .... Here's good, lads! My pack of Forty Eight AA's has just arrived. Cost me less than £14.00, off Amazon UK Prime. That's a Lot of trail camming!

 

 

 

 

Energiser, look. Independently proven to outlast Duracell. And .....

 

 

 

 

 

go buy lithium batteries they last a hell of alot longer

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

42 minutes ago, Ted Newgent said:

go buy lithium batteries they last a hell of alot longer

Fukk Off!!! This lot could yet out last me, FFS!

Seriously though, out of interest - and for the benefit of the thread; How do they compare, financially?

[Ted Newgent 4,896]

2 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Fukk Off!!! This lot could yet out last me, FFS!

Seriously though, out of interest - and for the benefit of the thread; How do they compare, financially?

I buy 12 for 20 dollars 

8 go in one cam in September 

I won’t change the batteries til maybe January. Bear in mind from October the daytime temps are in the minus 10s dipping down to -30c of a night. You get plenty more mileage out of lithium’s. they are made for colder weather.

I will NOT use any other battery

buy once cry once

[ands 544]

The new energisers are (probably) the best non rechargeable aa's available £14 for 48 seems ridiculously cheap? I'm try out Ikea Lada rechargeable aa's next-wish me luck lol

[Greyman 28,594]

1 hour ago, Ted Newgent said:

go buy lithium batteries they last a hell of alot longer

I tried them once didn’t find they lasted so much longer to justify the money and they just go from working to not working rather than just slowing down like normal battery’s do so I scrapped the idea, best option if your on your own plot is a huge SD card a car battery and a little solar panel

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Just plug in to farmers mains fencer .

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

Well; I've got mine out again, tonight. (Waits for the sniggering to subside) It's already as much a habit as hoping to learn anything new.

Saying that though, it is - hopefully! - teaching me more about the controls. I've got the distance worked out now. At least for this model, on the present settings. I'll measure the exact feet, some time, and record them.

See how fox vanishes into the blackness as he moves back from the cam? I know exactly where that is. I'll measure it all out, tomorrow.

I'm not happy with the brightness levels yet though. Close to, foxy looks like an electrified frost fox. I want to sort that out. Think it's to do with the sensor level? I'd check the manual but - for those who don't know:

This poxy, Linux, system's thrown a wobbler and I can't access shit now. I bought a new machine today. Give it a week and I hope to be back up. For now though, I stand to lose all my recent clips Thankfully, the most 'interesting' stuff I already loaded onto Vimeo, before shit went tits up.

This system's, for the first time in my life, started seemingly severely limiting my 'Likes' allowance, by the way. Or I'm just enjoying some shit all the more lately? Either way, some cracking posts on here already

 

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

You couldn't fukking make this up!

Today, I just happened to stand up and glance out the window. There's foxy. Broad daylight. Nothing unusual in that. I'd earlier set the cam up and put his grub out. I'd set the Sensor (I think it was?) to Low. Trying that out.

So, as I'm idly smiling at foxy, the fukker bolts in, right underneath the cam. Then rushes back up that familiar little electric fence line. And, as he does a sharp left; I see he's got something in his mouth!

Now, picture it: He's running directly Away from me and the cam, right? So, it's only in that split second, as he hangs a left and vanishes behind the blocker of my hedge, that I get a glimpse of what he's got.

And it was a mouthful. And I'm pretty bloody certain it had a long, bare tail hanging down too! " Fantastic! ", I thought. " He's just nabbed a rat for me. And I've got it all, broad daylight, so in gorgeous technicolour! Fukking great! "

So elated was I that I dashed straight out there and grabbed the cam. Now a dash cam. See?

Couldn't fukking believe it! Shot of my hand, as I put it on its post. Shot of me wandering out there and dumping his food on the ground. What the Fukk happened?!?

It's back out there now. Sensor on High. I think I might bring it in, in an hour. Have a look. Record shows that foxy's always here soon after dark. And he's probably been back since, in the daylight.

Hey ho. It's a learning curve. Pretty much the purpose of this thread. So we might learn from each others fukk ups, as well as classic clips.

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

 

[dytkos 17,802]

Wasn't so difficult was it?

Cheers, D.

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

Good, actually. Because I mainly get night footage (And, believe me, I get Hours of that! No one wants to see a constant stream of fox clips though, obviously) It's been tricky to discern if I'm always looking at the same fox.

Funny. I went out there, today, to give them their breakfast. Looked down across the meadow and there's the bugger, sitting there waiting! They've got my number now