Trail Cam Tuesday

A good chunk of my spare time is spent out in the woods, but unfortunately i cant spend all my time there.  Being as it is, last year i purchased a trail camera to first of all keep track of what wildlife visits my backyard, but also found that it is a great way to get candid shots of your pets as well

granted, this shot has been cropped, but this is one of my favorite pictures ever of my dogs, Myth (the large Samoyed) and Chia (the little Eskie-mix)

I enjoyed harvesting these images from my remote cameras so much that this fall i bought a second one, and now i have one for backyard and for the forest to capture a greater variety of wild creatures, and not just the backyard fare of squirrels, crows and opossums ( though these are animals i always enjoy seeing, no matter the setting)

every tuesday i check my cameras, and so on tuesdays i will post what good images were captured that week, although, some weeks i get nothing but overexposed blurs of animals i can make hide nor tail of, so Trail Cam Tuesday will be an on-and-off venture

for the week of 11/29/2016

note the strange furry crest on this opossum's back

   

a normal looking opossum

we see two different shots of opossums!  my favorite animal! unfortuanely both my trail cams are cheap and the quality of nighttime photos is poor, so i had to really doctor (or butcher) these images to make them more discernable.

the first image is quite bizarre, since the face is obviously an opossum, but the back of the animal resembles a skunk, with those raised bands of white fur and black down the middle.  opossums do not have such markings and dont raise their fur in that manner either, so perhaps a skunk was walking behind the opossum as the shot was taken or perhaps i have photographic evidence of some cryptic skunk/opossum hybrid haha!

one day hopefully i can invest in a trail camera that takes decent night shots, but that day is long away i'm afraid.   the most interesting animals we have around here by and large are nocturnal or crepuscular, and especially with how late in the year it is, the hours of daylight my camera has to operate at its best are few.  So as we near the winter solstice, heres to hoping for better shots and more hours of light in the weeks to come.

thank you for reading :)