Hiking and Kayaking July 17-18

I set and checked a few camera while I was out.

Set a camera here, there are a bunch of trails and a some beds and it’s on the border of a some big timber and a large muskeg, so even though it’s more out in the open than most places I set cameras it should be good.
This is my first check of this spot, The camera watches an intersection of a couple of main trails in the timber, it’s doing pretty good.
I moved the camera in the above video about 100 feet to cover 1 of the trails that leads to that spot.
I’ve had a camera here for several years, it’s been consistent especially for bucks.

I’ve used this spot before and it’s been good for all 3 of the large animals we have on this island; wolves, black bear, and deer, the animal in the picture is a wolf that is in the process of growing a new coat.
This is another spot I’ve had a camera for a long time, it covers a main trail that runs along the base of a mountain.
I switched this camera to record video, it covers a main trail through the timber.

Checking 4 Cameras

A bear tried to remove this camera, fortunately it didn’t sink it’s teeth into it, and I remembered to tie a few knots after buckling it in.

This camera collected 1800+ pictures in a month mostly of this doe and her fawn, and another doe with twins.

This camera covered an intersection of 3 trails in the timber, it did pretty good but I moved it to a more easily accessible location.

The new spot for this camera covers a main trail and a bed.

This camera is doing really well but I need to switch trees because most of the traffic is one-way.

I added one more camera to this group, it covers a main trail through the timber. I usually set my cameras in groups of 3-4 that I can easily reach on a day hike.

A few weeks of dry weather dried up some of the shallow ponds allowing deer access to the bog beans and they have mowed them down, I never realized they like them that much.

This is what these ponds usually looks like.