I have not done that but can since each buck has a unique identifier number. But I'll tell you right now, some bucks rarely visit scrapes while other individuals live on them. No idea why. I'll get an individual buck in food plots at night over and over, but rarely get him on scrapes. Other bucks live on scrapes but are rarely photographed in food plots.
VERY possible. Because I'm only focused on scrape interactions, it killed me to pass up the data from all the bucks just "walking by in the background." That would change the data for sure.
No, what's Splunk?
That actually surprised me. More breeding action over a longer time period. I definitely didn't expect that.
The analysis is the easy part. Spreadsheets and relational databases. It's the data collection that takes forever. So far, I'm 20,000 videos in.
2020: 47 total bucks, 26 that were 2 1/2+
Very interesting stuff. A question I have, that I don't think has been asked yet, have you looked at it in a way such that you can tell whether or not a buck tends to visit a particular scrape and only that scrape? Or do some bucks seem to travel around and hit many scrapes during a short period of time? I guess I'm wondering how well you could pattern or predict seeing a specific buck on a certain scrape or scrapes?
What??!!! You're such an analytical guy I figured you leveraged Splunk for certain. It's a data analytics/search tool. For the amount of data you are looking at, you can get a free license. It's designed for enterprise level data (think terabytes daily). Includes machine learning, etc. pretty slick if you're to that sort of thing. It can spit out advanced search results in an instant and provide chart, graph, etc representations lf the data. Worth a quick Google
We know at times and especially mature bucks do this but no way to collect this data unless you put out more trail cams one for every wind direction which would scent up the whole area . Totally not worth the trouble , just have to accept this as a given .
So what do we ascertain for data granules. Is it safe to surmise that mature bucks make a disproportionately high amount of early scrapes? That primetime to catch mature buck on a scrape line is around halloween? And that yearlings only muster up the courage to work scrapes during prime breeding when mature bucks are awat tending does?
