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Trail Camera Placement at Stream Mouth Crossings — 4 Comments

    • Haha, that would be tricky. The moose’s appearance did make me wonder if there’s something about stream mouths that moose like, though, because last year I cameras looking out into that same pond, hoping to get moose, and not one appeared.

  1. How did you balance the decision to place the camera at the stepping stone and the bear stomp path crossing with the likelihood that the moving water in the stream would cause the camera to just constantly record the moving water? It does look like the water started out high in the stepping stone video and went down, maybe the water was low when you placed the camera? Thanks!

    • The videos don’t show all the clips and the clips they do show are not necessarily in chronological order. The water level at both the stepping stones and the bear stomp trail crossing was very low when the cameras were placed, and later rose after rainfall. There is always a risk of a lot of false triggering when the camera faces moving water, but sometimes it is worth taking that risk. In those two cases, I thought it was worth it because they were such interesting spots. Both did get a fair number of false triggers, but the triggering was by no means constant until (in the case of the stomp trail) the tree on which the camera was mounted, toppled, at which point the camera was looking directly down at the water.

      I should mention that “false” triggering due to moving water is much worse when sunlight reflects off the water, towards the camera. I think so, anyway. To minimize false triggers due to moving water I try to face the camera as directly north was possible. The one at the stomp trail crossing was facing to the north. I think the one at the steppingstones was facing southeast – not good, but for most of the time the camera was there, the water level wasn’t that high, so “false” triggering wasn’t too bad.

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