Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 11/13/24
Traveling in a group of 3, so if s/he's lucky, the family will share food.
Traveling in a group of 3, so if s/he's lucky, the family will share food.
BIG Owl on my Trail
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Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 11/24/24
This is 11 days after the injured coyote first showed up on my cameras, so clearly it's surviving. It doesn't look emaciated, so it's eating. I doubt it can hunt like that, so are the other helping it with food?
Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 12/20/24
It's been 5 weeks since this injured coyote initially crossed my cameras, and for the first time s/he seems to be putting a little bit of weight on it. I cut ~30 seconds of dead time between the two animals, but these two are definitely traveling together, and I see the injured one with 1 or 2 companions very regularly.
Coyote with Rabbit (?)
Looks like a rabbit to me, but I could be wrong:
Looks like a rabbit to me, but I could be wrong:
I live in RPV! I thought the scenery looked a lot like home…what neighborhood are you in?
Also, do you have your triggers on motion sensor? Do you get a lot of false triggers? Thanks.
Right now I'm triggering strictly on motion, and alerting on triggers, so I get a ton of false positives:
I tried installing CPAI a while back, but it was really unstable, so I uninstalled it. I may try it again, and using it to Alert only on animal/human detection.
One of "my" coyotes died a few weeks back, and I found it on a trail about 1/2 mile from my cameras:
A lot of folks around here consider them a nuisance, and I consider them a danger to my own cats, but it's hard not to feel sad when you've been watching them daily. I didn't turn it over or examine the body, but I didn't see any obvious trauma, and it's clearly not a starvation death.
County picked up the carcass, and I've asked if they checked/recorded the gender, and whether or not they tested for poison, but I doubt they'll get back to me, since they're overworked and understaffed. TBH I'm surprised they actually picked it up, given that it's not on a public street or a hazard to anyone.
I am still seeing 2 adults (instead of 3) nightly on my cameras, so I'm wondering if this was one of the mated pair, or their offspring.
A lot of folks around here consider them a nuisance, and I consider them a danger to my own cats, but it's hard not to feel sad when you've been watching them daily. I didn't turn it over or examine the body, but I didn't see any obvious trauma, and it's clearly not a starvation death.
County picked up the carcass, and I've asked if they checked/recorded the gender, and whether or not they tested for poison, but I doubt they'll get back to me, since they're overworked and understaffed. TBH I'm surprised they actually picked it up, given that it's not on a public street or a hazard to anyone.
I am still seeing 2 adults (instead of 3) nightly on my cameras, so I'm wondering if this was one of the mated pair, or their offspring.
Bzzzz:
For some reason the bumblebees like to investigate my cameras. They certainly don't look or smell like flowers, so maybe they're attracted to some noise or electromagnetic field. ???
For some reason the bumblebees like to investigate my cameras. They certainly don't look or smell like flowers, so maybe they're attracted to some noise or electromagnetic field. ???
Great Horned Owl on Thoroughbred Trail 06/10/25
Hello!
I haven't seen owls on my camera in a few months, so it's nice to have an appearance.
Hello!
I haven't seen owls on my camera in a few months, so it's nice to have an appearance.
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My finches are gone
Warning: NatGeo-style violence ahead!
House finches have been nesting near my front door every year for the past 5 years. They normally build their nest about 6" off-camera from this view, in one of the protected crevices between those roof joists.
So I removed one of the glass panels from this light fixture to install a light-socket-plug adapter, to plug in a USB wall charger (visible below nest), to power a Wyze cam (with perpetual beta RTSP firmware) to record the happenings and stream them to YouTube.
This year, for some reason, the finches decided to build their nest inside my light fixture, as you can see. I turned the camera around to watch the chicks hatch and grow, like they do every year, until the CrowPocalypse happened today.
Mom laid the eggs between approximately May 12 and May 24, and the chicks hatched out very soon after that. Mom and Dad have been feeding them diligently, many times a day. They were probably only a few days from fledging.
A crow can't hover, but it can perch on a sconce.
Over the span of a little less than an hour, we see Dad feed his kids for the last time, and then Big Bad Crow comes for them. Crow plucks Chick #1, and Chick #2 wisely attempt to flee the nest. Unfortunately the chicks were too young to fledge, and Chick #2 ends up on the ground, hiding in some grass.
Crow plucks #3, and then #4. Then Crow comes back to find #2 on the ground, kills it, and flies off with its body.
Finally, Dad comes back to find that all his kids are gone.
Warning: NatGeo-style violence ahead!
House finches have been nesting near my front door every year for the past 5 years. They normally build their nest about 6" off-camera from this view, in one of the protected crevices between those roof joists.
So I removed one of the glass panels from this light fixture to install a light-socket-plug adapter, to plug in a USB wall charger (visible below nest), to power a Wyze cam (with perpetual beta RTSP firmware) to record the happenings and stream them to YouTube.
This year, for some reason, the finches decided to build their nest inside my light fixture, as you can see. I turned the camera around to watch the chicks hatch and grow, like they do every year, until the CrowPocalypse happened today.
Mom laid the eggs between approximately May 12 and May 24, and the chicks hatched out very soon after that. Mom and Dad have been feeding them diligently, many times a day. They were probably only a few days from fledging.
A crow can't hover, but it can perch on a sconce.
Over the span of a little less than an hour, we see Dad feed his kids for the last time, and then Big Bad Crow comes for them. Crow plucks Chick #1, and Chick #2 wisely attempt to flee the nest. Unfortunately the chicks were too young to fledge, and Chick #2 ends up on the ground, hiding in some grass.
Crow plucks #3, and then #4. Then Crow comes back to find #2 on the ground, kills it, and flies off with its body.
Finally, Dad comes back to find that all his kids are gone.