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Jon54

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I bought a camera just after hunting season was over. My first placement took plenty good pictures of turds riding ATVs through the property. I did not get a single picture of simply nothing. Several pics looked like the camera had simply tripped on its own, yet upon close examination, I found a squirrel or a raccoon that had set the camera off.

I put the camera on a different piece of land on 3/21 and pulled the card Saturday. I had about 190 pics, but the vast majority simply took a beautiful picture of the woods. Is this common? I placed the camera on a cedar tree facing north. The camera was blocked from stray sun rays by the limbs and leaves of the cedar.

I did get a few pics of some deer, turkey, a stray dog and a lone coyote. There were almost no pictures taken at night and a few pictures taken in the middle of the day that came out black.

The camera is a Covert infrared camera and I upgraded the firmware just before putting it out the first time. I forget the model.

I set the camera to take a single picture every 15 seconds.
 
Generally the winds die down at night and are more prevalent during the day. On some of your false pics you might have had some of those cedar branches moving tripping the camera. Also, where'd you set it up? Over a trail? Over a lick? I'd suggest setting up some sort of mineral lick.
 
The fact that most of your photos were taken during the daytime tells me that you are probably getting false triggers from the wind moving branches or grass. A good way to tell for sure is to look at the time between photos. If the time between photos is consistently about the same as your camera setting, then you are more than likely getting false triggers. A couple of ways to reduce this problem is to: 1) Mount the camera a little higher and angle it downward, 2) Try to cut down or remove the small branches and grass within the camera's detection zone. If this doesn't work, you may have to move it to a different spot (even a few feet or yards can make a huge difference). I have had some spots that no matter what I did, I still got hundreds of false triggers each day.
 
Here is a classic example of the nice picture of nothing. The camera is set up on an old logging road, facing north. The tree is actually on a slight rise on a cedar tree. I trimmed all limbs that might get in the way.
 
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I see a deer stand, that's why you didn't get any pics of deer!

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That stand has been there for eons. The tree has grown around the chain. No one hunted this property at all last year but it's only 30 acres. A good point is this property is covered in white oaks while all property around it has had the timber cut.
 

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