Velvet

I have often expressed dissatisfaction with my Primos #4 trail camera. Still images are usually improperly exposed. The workaround is to take videos and extract frames. The start of the video is usually overexposed, but then it settles down and the rest of it is usable. I've actually known this for years as my best image of a badger was a screen grab in 2017. My Browning #5 is on a secret assignment, so I set up the Primos to monitor the back yard for the next week and decided to set it to shoot video.

So what we have here is the lopsided deer losing its velvet. The first image is from a Primos video, and the deer is starting to lose the velvet on the short antler. The source video is 720p, which means the extracted image is 1280x720 pixels. Definitely not high resolution. The other two images are DSLR shots about an hour later of the deer rubbing off its velvet on a tree in our yard and breaking a few branches in the process.

One from each

Nothing exotic in the last trailcam check, just a bunch of deer. But they showed up on all five of my cameras in the two locations, my yard and my brother's cabin in the forest. There were at least two fawns running around the woods and are in two of these images. The five cameras includes the three Brownings and the two Reconyx and does not include the unreliable Primos. And just to get something besides deer, I included a previously-unpublished image of a moose from last year.

Old Browning #5

Melted Browning #6

New Browning #11

Old Reconyx #2

New Reconyx #7 mother and fawn

Moose from last year on #7