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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote Digging up Prey Apparently my ground squirrels or gophers are doing a horrible job of hiding. The coyotes find them immediately.
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    2 Coyotes Doing ?? and Playing with Prey I have no idea what the jaw-locking behavior means. Is one of them regurgitating food for the other?
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    Tree Removal Time Lapse

    LA County Public Works removed this old pine tree because it was in danger of toppling over under its own weight. I have a camera mounted to my mailbox in the perfect position to capture the whole event.
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    Need help tweaking LPR camera exposure settings

    I have one OEM unit of this same camera, and I'm thinking about trying to learn the very basics of LPR on it, before I step up and buy a "real" LPR camera. Are you still using that camera for LPR? Or did you upgrade?
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    Correct. I run 22 cameras on a $200 refurbished Dell (it was $425 at the time). That doesn't include the external drive bay that I'm using to store footage, but you may not need that much storage if you're running fewer cameras. I bought another of those same boxes to build my parents' BI system...
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    Fake Rock Thread!

    Apparently about 4 hours. But I would have gone a bit deeper and made more space. My POE switch would barely fit in there. And he cut the cable egress hole in the completely wrong location.
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    Fake Rock Thread!

    They cost less than a fake rock, in bulk. I wonder how many hours (and disks) it would take to hollow one out. Any volunteers?
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    Fake Rock Thread!

    That looks nothing like a rock.
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    Fake Rock Thread!

    Wow! That's a great deal! That rock is probably worth $200 by now.
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    Fake Rock Thread!

    OMG! Rock-flation is happening. If you click those links, both vendors now charge $62.05. Given that I bought that rock ~2 years ago, it's increased in value 16% per year. I should have invested everything I had into fake rocks. But what about y'all? Doesn't anyone else have any fake rocks to...
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    Fake Rock Thread!

    The rest of my neighborhood has white mailbox posts that all look pretty much like this, so if I changed color it would stand out like a sore thumb!
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    Fake Rock Thread!

    Here it is with some mud on it, and surrounded by some grass. Looks . . . sorta believable.
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    POE Trigger/Switch for Mailbox Cameras on BI?

    The rock has had enough mud splashed on it that it now looks a bit less fake: and here's a close-up of that zip-tied camera:
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    POE Trigger/Switch for Mailbox Cameras on BI?

    Ok, I finally finished this part of the project. I didn't feel like dragging an extension cord 75' out to the street, and I couldn't find an edge guide for my ancient cabled router anyway, so I bought a Ryobi cordless palm router for $77 (tool only, now $74), an edge guide for another $16, and a...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Lizard Battle Royale on Quarterhorse Trail! Originally I thought they were both dead, but they were both alive, and fighting! I suppose this isn't "IP Cam" footage, unless we redefine IP Cam as iPhone Cam.
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