The trail cam I have at the animal scratchpost has the best picture quality of all my trail cameras, but it has a very narrow field of view (FOV). That means the area the camera’s lens can capture is too narrow, so when a wild animal comes to use the scratchpost, oftentimes only parts of the animal are captured on video, and parts are cropped off.
So I decided to move the camera on a tree that’s further away from the scratchpost in hopes that less of the animal bodies would be cropped off in videos. The other tree however grows under an angle and is thicker than the one I had the camera on so far. The camera strap was not long enough to easily strap the camera to the tree so I had to play around with it, but eventually got it done.
The trail cam footage at the end of the video is a compilation of both before and after the move. The music used as background is my guitar solo to a rock’n’roll backing track. It was improvised live before a live audience and recorded as performed.
Animal footage features Roe Deer (Capreolus Capreolus), Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus) and Wild Boars (Sus Scrofa).
00:00 Explaining the narrow FOV of the scratchpost trail camera
00:45 Trail cam moved to a more distant tree
01:26 Woodpecker Decker came to greet me at the scratchpost
01:50 Trail cam footage before camera move
05:12 Trail cam footage after camera move
Keep rocking :o)
Mark
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