Trail Cam: Almost daily sightings

When we set up a pair of Cuddeback trail cams in late May to capture the same set of tree tubes from 2 different angles we picked a spot at random - a stretch of about 30 feet from within a windbreak/hedgerow planting more than a mile long. Our goals were twofold:
1) Use the motion of passing critters to create a series of time lapse photos to show the growth of the trees & shrubs (more on this in future posts)
2) To get a few good shots of deer passing through - and NOT browsing these American plum and Nanking cherry seedlings which they had kept mowed down to ankle height for 5 years.
It just goes to show that with today's whitetail deer populations, you can pick a spot at random and still get deer photographs nearly every day!

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June 12, 6:43 am
June 12, 9:25 pm
June 14, 5:56 am
June 15, 10:43 pm
June 16, 8:19 pm
I'd love to be able to claim that we are such good deer trackers that we surveyed 1 mile of hedgerow and picked the exact spot deer pass through most frequently. Fact is, we took a guess. I'm not even going to say we got lucky; I have a hunch we'd capture this many deer on film anywhere we put the cameras.

No wonder these seedlings - the ones that survived after multiple replantings - were still only 12-18 inches tall after 5 years!