The Field

There is an empty 4-acre lot to the west behind our house. I suppose the owners are planning to build their retirement home someday, but until last summer they hadn't even mowed it since 2020. The HOA started sending out threatening letters telling everyone to mow their lots, otherwise it would be done for them and they would get a bill.

I used to have a camera pointed into that field, but when it was unmowed for years, the tall waving grass would give thousands of false triggers. The field was mowed a few months ago, and I finally put a camera up a few weeks ago. There have been very few false triggers. There's nothing out of the ordinary besides the usual deer and a fox. Apparently I need to level the camera, which is the old Melted Browning #6. It still has the same old problem of the color balance varying between the center (red) and the edges (blue-green).

Also included here are a few shots of deer and turkeys at the greenhouse, which is about a mile from the house, closer to town. The camera is the Gardepro close focus. I didn't use the Gardepro at all last winter because I didn't need the close focus capability, but here with limited space between the camera and the greenhouse it seems to be the right choice. Moose have been known to pass through the area, but the camera hasn't gotten any of those yet.