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Quite a while ago there was a discussion on rack mounting your gear. At that time I mentioned puplicsurplus.com, a website that auctions mainly municipality 'stuff'. I wasn't particularly interested in a rack / cabinet at the time but a couple of months ago decided I really needed to clean up...

I posted earlier a clip of the 6 newborn kits in the fox den near our house. The next night this coyote tried to get into the den. You can hear the screams of the adult fox nearby in the woods trying to distract and lure the coyote away. The coyote was not successful. However that same night...

We have an active fox den in the woods only about 50m from our house. For years the foxes have had their litter of kits there, stayed for a month or so and then the little ones move on. Usually one or two will make pretty regular returns during the year. This year there was a litter of 6 kits...

Thursday we had a severe thunderstorm go through the area. There was an instantaneous response to one close lighting hit at about 4pm - our power went out immediately. It came back on at 10pm. The next day the power went off again for about 3 hours. I just found out this morning why, the blue...

It sure didn't seem like much of a storm when it went through here on Tuesday. In the meantime the utility says they will have power 'substantially restored' by Tuesday 11:59 PM. Don't know what that means for us tho. . . I have a 10kw diesel generator that we picked up at auction from FT Meade...

I am just starting to extend my cameras in the woods to the lower part of our very wooded lot. There is a steep slope for several hundred feet that eventually levels out to a nice open, mostly grassy, area. I have already scoped out where the camera is going to go on a seriously sized oak. My...

The fawn that first appeared a few months ago right after birth has been a pretty regular visitor on my woods cameras since then. The little guy isn't so little any more. He has been showing up with the doe but a while back a second fawn appeared with them. Now every few days I get clips of the...

Amazon has, for another 10 hours anyway, the WD 12tb bookshelf drive for $175. My 2 NAS' are populated with these WD bookshelf drives (10tb) that have been 'shucked' from their cases. They appear to be WD Reds with white labels. No jumpers, no failures, 100% reliable for me. I am planing on...

The first is from my hummingbird feeder cam this morning. I've never seen any other type of bird at the feeder. Apparently hummingbirds are not into sharing. uninvited guest The next clip is from my driveway camera. Until I installed the IR sources a couple of days ago I had recording scheduled...

This guy was first seen 6-8 weeks ago when he was only a couple of days old. He shows up pretty regularly - each time bigger. He (she?) is definitely getting to deer size. . . FAWN

Not wanting to hijack Bryan's thread I thought I'd put a followup to the post I made there. It turns out I am in the middle of installing another 48v run to solve these problems. 1) I have 1 camera on the east end of our garage facing west. It covers the driveway and overhead doors but I can...

I'm sure the price will come down but right now Amazon has these 'external 16tb' drives for $309. I've shucked a load of WD 10tb drives to fill my NAS' but I may pick up one of these to replace the 2 6tb drives in my desktop...

This doe has been showing up in my woods clips for over a month now with her fawn. In the 1st clip the fawn looked to be only a day or two old. Now its really bigger. A week ago I caught them on my camera with a second fawn. I have no idea where it came from. Never saw it before. Two Fawns

and big thank you for the posts and guide to take advantage of the sub-stream that BI now supports. I never though much of it as my cpu utilization was around 15% and I have 64gb of memory in my computer (BI was using about 9gb). That was until yesterday. I have 8 4k cameras and 3 2k and I was...

I finally got my camera issues straightened out for viewing the hummingbird feeder. It's mounted about 2' from the feeder which presents some serious depth of field issues especially in lower lighting. The Dahua varifocal unit I'm using focus' down to .8 ft iirc. All in all I'm happy with it. We...

The other day I installed a new camera outside. Upon installation I found Unifi had assigned the same IP as an existing camera. After much frustration I found that in one of my more confused moments I had not only set my cameras up for fixed (reserved) IP's in Unifi but also set the cameras...

I am certainly no expert in 'rolling my own' cat 5/6 cables but I have done my share over the last several months. Today I was installing a new Dahua next to my hummingbird feeder and had to make 2 cables - one from camera to switch, the other from switch to main switch. They seemed to go...

I've seen a fair number of near misses - predator vs prey - but this is the first successful (not so much for the squirrel) attack. Fox vs Squirrel

My guess is this fawn is about 2 weeks old now. Much bigger than my first captures of her. Not sure what the mother's strut is all about. . . Deer with fawn

I guess its a good thing that almost all the foxes have moved on. There is still one I capture on clips every day. Good thing for him he wasn't home at 6 this morning :) Coyote in fox den

Well, it appears the 3 adults and other newborns this year are long gone. I have only recorded this fella the last several days and wonder how much longer he is going to stick around. FOX

Several people in the area have told me they see bobcats occasionally. I never have. I think one of my woods cameras finally caught one yesterday. It was raining and the video quality really sucks but ya get what ya get. What do you think is this guy a bobcat? Bobcat ???

I have only seen coyotes around here for a month or so - probably this guy. He has made my video library now several times. This time it looks like he found the fox den. Best viewed in full screen. I expect the foxes will be moving on soon. Coyote

Just a note here from a newbie thanking everyone for their useful info. I came from zero 8 months ago when I decided to put up some cctv cameras. This site has been a valuable resource for good info. One bit of info I gleaned from reading comments was about the Tendelux illuminators. As my...

There is a dry water course on our property within 50m of our house. For years the foxes return to the den they have burrowed into the side of the bank. They have their kits there and hang around a couple of months. This year I set up cameras to monitor the goings and comings. There are 3 adults...

Sorry for the harsh lighting but I thought these guys reminded me of some people I know. confrontation

The 2 adult foxes are caught in this clip. One is far in the background near the IR illuminators. You can see they hear something in the woods and then take off in opposite directions. The coyote appears on the left by the tree line. I don't have a good feeling about the fox litter in the den...

These guys are always in the 'neighborhood' and it had to happen that they run into each other. I was just surprised that the fox would go after such a big animal. I hadn't seen this clip when I made the original post. This is the video that preceded Rocky and Freddy Prequel Rocky Raccoon...

I'm sure in parts of the country coyotes are super common. Here in central CT, not so much. We have lived in this house over 30 years and although we are in the woods this is my 1st sighting. Of course I've only had a camera in the woods for a few months, that may have some bearing :) Coyote at...

I recently received inexpensive Yucheng PTZ that I plan on putting in the woods. I temporarily set it up on the switch in my study to do a 'burn in' test while I prepared everything outside. Here is a map of my network: The problem came up when I moved it to the basement to prepare it for...