Last year I installed a motion detecting camera outside the cabin. The goal was to determine how much time the deer were spending in the orchard. The short answer turned out to be - A lot! I also figured out they were pretty much living under one of the trees in the yard. I know that the back fence had to go up (and it has since then), but I had no idea the ruminants spent so much time in my yard.
When I installed the camera, I was hoping for images of cougars, javalina and maybe a coyote or coati. Instead, the camera took hundreds of pictures of deer. And one cow. By the front door. I did get some fleeting night photos of the local javalina. Cute little guys, although they did eat all my pumpkins two years ago. Grrrrr.
