Warning: Wildlife camera in operation!

Tonight we went out and set up our wildlife camera for the summer.  I don't know if it's necessary, but we always put the outdoor cameras away for the winter.  I can't believe all those below-zero days and nights could have been good for camera technology.  So tonight was the night.

But there's a trick to setting up a camera like this.  We received this camera as a retirement gift from friends and one of these friends has a camera set up on her property in Minnesota.  They have established their camera in a PRIME location and they get cool pictures of a whole spectrum of wildlife.  And she always assures me that it takes a while to find that prime location.  We have been able to capture some pretty good pictures, not as good as hers, but we thought we needed a new location this year.  Leann has been watching where the deer have made their trails this winter, so our new location is along one of those paths.  We'll see what happens.  By the way, we usually warn people that we have a wildlife camera set up and where it's located.  Cuts down on embarrassing incidents!

Here are some of our pictures from previous summers:

Black bear - but we don't see many of them, have to be up at 2:24am, I guess.

Turkeys - a big flock that summer

A coyote, we think

Momma and baby

Romance in the orchard

And baby bear

Laughing? Talking? Or mid chew?

Blaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Can't wait to see what we get this year!