Last Night Visitors - and some info on how these are shots are taken.

Last night we had a deer at about 7:30pm and a fox at about 10:00pm.

After the photos there is a brief description of how I get these pictures - there have been some new additions to the mailing list and even for some who have been getting them for a while, it might be interesting to know how it is done.

 

How it is done - in brief.

Firstly, it is totally dark out there - the light is from InfraRed lamps that allow my infrared cameras to work.  The animals see nothing!  One infrared camera in on a raspberry Pi ( single board computer) that is doing motion detection.  When something happens it turns on a high-def video camera that records in infrared.  Also the Pi takes a photo every 5 seconds while there is movement.  I review these pictures then next morning to see what happened and then get the hi-def video clips from the camera.  The YouTube video are clips from the camera, and then the still shots are taken from the video.   SIMPLE........

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Mike Mason