Bobcat, elk, buck, coyote on trail camera

Reconyx RC55 remote trail camera captured individual images at a rate of about one per second as long as something warm was in motion in the field of view. Software was then used to string the images together into a video.

Music is shorter than video because Bloc Party claimed copyright infringement on the original song attached to video. Unfortunately for Bloc Party, tens of thousands of viewers won't be exposed to their music via this video anymore.

New song is Lotus Eaters by The Shiffers.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• bobcats
• deer
• bucks
• coyotes
• remote
• cameras
• marten
• martens
• washington
• state
• Teanaway
• wild
• animals
• nature
• bull
• wildlife

[SNMmountains]

nice shot of the ringtailed cat at the beginning...dont see them very often

[TWayDreamin]

@SNMmountains That little critter at the beginning is a pine marten. They are little weasels about half the size of a fisher and they're a squirrel's worst nightmare.

[louisclements]

what did you spray on the tree to attract that much attention ????

[TWayDreamin]

@louisclements I use many different scents and lures that are commonly found at hunting and lure shops. Can't use a single one in any location for long because the animals tend to avoid certain scents after a visit or two.

[mysoccerftw]

tell them to shut up and get thaat hiway out of there it kills so much i went through there on day and came back the next morning and 3 dead dear 2 feet from each other bull

[TWayDreamin]

@mysoccerftw Highway 97 near the Teanaway is one of the biggest killing zones in eastern Washington. Now, in this economic environment, the county has decided to spend millions of dollars expanding and improving the Teanaway road that runs through the Teanaway - likely resulting in higher average speeds, more traffic and more dead animals.

[dougall3]

GREAT tune--how did you discover this gem?

[hunterjacob2]

I live in Washington, Im from Tacoma :) im an elk hunter - archery

[SNMmountains]

@TWayDreamin yeah the rings are a bit hard to see but 0:14 u can see em pretty good i think and u can certainly see the tail is noticably darker than the body another trait that pine matens dont really have...i havnt seen many martens tho..not many around where i live...but ringtails ive seen alot and i gotta say this is a ringtail...its body shape, movement, ringtail, color

[SNMmountains]

@TWayDreamin yeah i know what a pine marten is and they dont have rings like a coon on their tails...i know ringtail cats and martens are basically the shape and could easily be confused in a vid like this but unless my eyes deseve...its got rings on its tail

[heidbrain]

at 2:00 -- coyote rolling. did you have bait placed there ? wonder why it is rolling...

[equarg]

@SNMmountains

There is no need to curse.

Once the damage is done, things will never go back to the way they were. I agree. A 2nd growth forest lacks what a primary forest has. But what is the problem is here is humans has a short term view of things. A lot of times be help things, to death. Hell is paved with the stones of good intention.

One must take a long term view of what "help is" vs the Short term. I'm talking 100's of years, not the next 5 years.

[SNMmountains]

@equarg this whole notion that humans are bad and should let nature do her thing and leave it alone in 9 out of 10 cases is simply ludicrious and quite frankly a lazy cop out in my opinion...."yeah its fucked up...but we should just let it go, nature can fix itself...look...its done it before" sure it can, but will it restore itself to pre-human interference status on its own?..probably not...and in my opinion that level of habitat restoration is what we should strive for

[SNMmountains]

@equarg no offence but the whole "back off and let nature do her thing" ...thing lol..is silly, i mean sure it can work for many species...like in chernobyl...the deer are doing great...but what of the rest of the native species that were there before humans removed them either directly or inadvertently...do they all jump back? no they cant without are help because many are either too far away to travel there or cannot reach it period and or there arent enough for a viable breeding pop