cougar alley ne

[Machias]

I'm not entirely convinced the lion photos are of the same cat.  The night time photo looks to be a slightly older cat.  Neither is a toad of a cat, but nice cats.  The daytime photos look to me like a younger cat, of course it could all be lighting and the way they are walking.  In the night time photo, is the cat going downhill?  That may contribute to the longer looking neck.  Great photos!!

[buckfvr]

Flat as a board there Fred......many cats in the area, bear too.

[Machias]

 

[KNOPHISH]

Cougars, bears & dogs? Nah, what you got is a killer rabbit with a vicious streak a mile wide, best to break out the holy hand grenade. 

[heavy hauler]

wow  any big foot pics yet?

[bearpaw]

I'm not entirely convinced the lion photos are of the same cat.  The night time photo looks to be a slightly older cat.  Neither is a toad of a cat, but nice cats.  The daytime photos look to me like a younger cat, of course it could all be lighting and the way they are walking.  In the night time photo, is the cat going downhill?  That may contribute to the longer looking neck.  Great photos!!

I agree with Fred, the impression I get is that they are two different cats, one is larger, longer, and older looking to me. I'd guess 80-90 on the daytime cat and 95-105 on the nighttime cat. From my experiences here in WA, I have killed or caught and released as many as 8-10 different cats in the same very small area in the same season more than once, cat territories overlap on a regular basis.

I want to thank you for posting the video. We've had reservations about cameras, notice how many guys on here say they only get photos one time of big bucks. I'm sure some deer get used to cameras or are lass afraid, but how many deer avoid the camera in the future? Also very important, theft is going to be greatly lessened, very few people look up while in the woods. 

[Gobble Doc]

Awesome.

[addicted2hunting]

seems a lot like northwest trek??

[Pilot_Hunter]

Nice pics!

[Machias]

I want to thank you for posting the video. We've had reservations about cameras, notice how many guys on here say they only get photos one time of big bucks. I'm sure some deer get used to cameras or are lass afraid, but how many deer avoid the camera in the future? Also very important, theft is going to be greatly lessened, very few people look up while in the woods. 

 

[deaner]

With the camera that high up the tree, how do you get it to point downward at the proper angle? a wedge of some sort?

Really neat pics and great idea...

what i did for that set of pics was a wedge i made from a piece of a branch i broke off, wedged behind the top and then the base of the cam resting on a branch stump to prevent the base from coming out.  however, its really a pain in the @$$ to get it set up right that way, and heres proof, just did a one month soak with the camera unfortunately angled wrong that way.  you can see in the pic of this choco bear that the angle was wrong, completely missed the trail.   so i went ahead and ordered 7 of these t cam mounts here... http://www.trailcampro.com/slaterivergamecameramount.aspx

and they worked great.  now all of my cameras are mounted on these, and im not going to be checking them until about beginning of september.  on 4 of them i used a 5 foot section of portable ladder, so that i could place them about 12 feet high.  and on 3 of them i simply stretched up while standing on the ground, so those ones are 7-8 feet high.  the only reason i had to not use the ladder for the extra 5 feet on 3 of the cameras was that i was getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and wanted to expedite the process as much as possible.  if people are still interested in the benefits of placing cameras higher i would be happy to post pics from my various cameras here in september.  i think pics at the same spot, from waist high, how i had them before, compared to placed higher up, would probably be useful compared side by side.    and for anyone asking about placement who has not watched the youtube video i posted earlier in this thread i suggest you watch it, but may as well skip to the 4 min mark.  thats where the benefits of camera height starts getting explained in that video.  give me two months to let my cams sit and ill post results, both the good and the bad, and im thinking it will make an impression.  already from a couple trials im thoroughly convinced that its well worth the effort to place them higher up in the trees, for many reasons.  oh and for whoever asked, that set of pics didnt have any kind of scent or anything, was just placed in a good high traffic area.  anyway heres the pic i said shows that wedging cams is a pain and can get poor results due to the difficulty of getting the proper angle with that method.  id suggest the mount for anybody interested in putting their cams up higher.  as you can see the angle in this pic, where the cam was wedged with branches, is wrong and missed the trail, making that one month soak in a good area an almost total waste.

[jackmaster]

damn thats a hell of an assortment