Earlier in the summer myself and a friend did some scouting for a new elk area here around the area that we live in. We found a real promising area in what I call a hole in the ground behind a local land mark.
We have had cameras in the area all summer and one of the places that we located a camera was a small spring running a very small amount of water. This year as dry as we have been these natural springs are a big thing for the wildlife. Well at this particular site we decided to dig a catch basin for the collection of clean moving water. The basin was not very large at all maybe able to hold about 5 gallons of running water. Sometime - late in the summer Cam had switched the camera to capture video instead of pics. When he checked the camera there recently we found the camera had collected 4 videos that made us feel our efforts had been validated.
This first video shows a smaller bull using the basin exactly what it was created for.
Drinking water: Just click on the pic to start the video
But from there the guy changed the basin to something we had not really intended:
Cooling bath:
Think he was pretty proud of himself and his cooling bath...
From there our water basin became a muddy wallo
It appears that the next time we do this we should probably increase the size of our catch basin?
