I did a second card pull of my trail cams at home and we have quite the selection of critters. Deer, turkey, otter, yote, bear, sandhill crane, possum, and rabbit. Here are some cool pics.
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Very cool. I replaced batteries and cards early April. Had a few good ones from winter and early spring.
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OK don’t laugh.
Kids bought me a Trial Cam for X-mas.
I have it set up at the cabin, and last time we were up there I figured I would set it in an awesome spot. Well, when we were up there the next time I went out to pull the card. Dang! couldn’t find it. Everything is running thru your head, I know I put it here someone must have stole it, maybe a bear knocked it off the tree, no one stole it I must have placed it someplace else. I walked the path over and over.
Found it, right where I put it.
I do have plenty of good clear pictures of me walking the trails looking for it. 
Ive had 8-12 cameras on 120 acres for almost 10 years now. Some are always in the same spots, some move around. A few have been temporarily “lost” for 6 months or so till I remember where I moved them to.
I did get these.
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Sweet action shot!! 
I just had this visitor here this morning.
The Deer looks like it needs a good meal or 2
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Ive had 8-12 cameras on 120 acres for almost 10 years now. Some are always in the same spots, some move around. A few have been temporarily “lost” for 6 months or so till I remember where I moved them to.
I can relate to this! I normally find them, but has taken me quite a bit of head scratching. The worst is leaving them after deer hunting and going back up in March or April.
eelpoutguy do you know the model number of that camera? I have a Browning and the pics aren’t even close to that quality!!
Some pictures from this spring. Gobbler is lucky I had already tagged out. He has some hooks on him.
Deer are loving the rye and clover ,eating and bedding most days in it.
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So far I’ve tried a few different camaras (mostly around $100): The Bushnells have had the best picture quality. As pointed out the Browning lags behind for the same price point and a larger image size doesn’t show a noticeable improvement. I have a Sky Point that is somewhere in between. My cousin has a couple lower priced Moultries that also have better image quality than the Browning. In that respect the Browning seems to be a bit of a dog although it’s been reliable. I haven’t, however, tried another camera in their product line. The one thing I have noticed is they’ve all had some thermal triggering issues to some degree.
eelpoutguy do you know the model number of that camera? I have a Browning and the pics aren’t even close to that quality!!
The Browning is terrible for thermal triggering. Will never own one again. 
when I get up there this weekend I will check the model #
The Browning is terrible for thermal triggering. Will never own one again.
Agreed. Mine takes nice quality daytime photos, but takes A LOT of them! Night performance is dismal too. Happiest with my Stealth Cam G42NG. Very solid camera.
sandhill family and the first fawn for me
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wildgame Inovations TR10B37D-7.
The kids bought it for me for my B-day last fall. There under 70 bucks.
Ordered 2 from Dicks tonight. Not the same model #. 50% off until 10pm tonight. I got them for $37.50 each. I literally just ordered in time. Otherwise I’d given a heads up. Free shipping also. Call dicks CS. Maybe they will honor the discount. I figured 2 more cameras for $75 not a big risk. I have 6 moultree I am happy with. This price seemed good for the gamble.
Did I just get my first lion pic?!
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That tail certainly looks like a cougar. For some reason I just never felt real safe in the woods at the cabin after seeing one of those big cats come down a trail while I was bear hunting. A couple days later there was another sighting about ten miles away and we figured it to be the same cat so I started to actually exhale again.
Can you check around the tree for tracks? That would seal the deal on IDing the critter but I’ll say yes you’ve captured a cougar.
With the rain it will be to late to see tracks. I saw quite a few big cat tracks while shed hunting this year though, including some around a deer kill and the rest of the carcass was stuffed under a tree. About 2 or 3 years ago I also thought I watched one down in the river valley, but it was tough to get a real good look at that distance. All I know was it wasn’t a deer. You never expect to need the spotting scope while sitting in stand!
Knowing their in the woods with you definitely adds a bit of excitement to the long walks to the stand in the dark!
If you zoom in close that looks like a fisher to me, but hard to know perspective not knowing how big that tree is. If that tree is 6″ in diameter it’s a fisher, if it’s 18″ in diameter it could be a cougar.
I’d say Fisher.
Very cool pic Hilhiker – (ooops)
Have you heard him scream? – it’s blood curdling.
Fisher was the first thing I thought of since I got a pic of one last year. I thought they were pretty rare in SE MN though, not to say lions are common. Without going out to actually measure the tree I would say that it has about a 12-14″ diameter. If it is a cat I wouldn’t say it’s a big one, but the legs and tail both seem a bit long compared to the fisher last year. The one thing that still makes me think possibly fisher is the darker looking fur, but it’s hard to tell being in the shadow. It’s a big fisher if it is one! Tough to say when you only get one pic.
These types of pics are why I love running trail cameras all year. You just never know what they’re going to catch!
I did think it looked like a cougar from the your pic, but once I zoomed in pretty tight the dark fur on the legs and redish brown on the back and rump made me think fisher right away. ears look like a fisher too. The fisher are a lot more common throughout the entire state than they ever were.
Agreed, I love getting crazy pics this on trail cam.
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