bucks in velvet and deer closeups

[robw]

some of these deer really love to get in tight and check out the camera.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then this one looks like a little guy just about to start growing antlers.  Can see the nubs pretty well

 

 

 

 

and this is the smaller of the 2 I've seen with some nice growth already

 

[WNY Bowhunter]

Nice.  I'm gonna put a couple of cams up this weekend!!!

[Doc]

Love those occasional "deer nose" pictures. In case any of us think the deer are not aware of our cameras, those pictures always help to tell us that we are not fooling anybody .... lol. We're just fortunate that most deer are tolerant of our gadgets in their livingroom.

[jesse.james]

Love those occasional "deer nose" pictures. In case any of us think the deer are not aware of our cameras, those pictures always help to tell us that we are not fooling anybody .... lol. We're just fortunate that most deer are tolerant of our gadgets in their livingroom.

 

Thats why I set my cams to video and put them above 6 ft (usually around 7-8 feet angling down.  Watched a pretty convincing webinar that showed some convincing data that deer tend to notice and or spook from camera shutters.  Also a straight snapshot does not necessarily tell you everything you may want to know.  They would have trail cameras taking pics and then another one higher up or on a different tree running video.  Alot of the deer actually bolted from the camera after the pic snapped and that goes for those black out cameras.  They also put cameras with no guts in them and the deer still spooked from them.  Not one of the deer noticed the cams running video that were high up angled slightly down.  After that all my cams are set for video usually 30 second clips.

[DTG3k]

Damnit, now i really want to check my cams, but i dont want to scent it up, gotta let them stay out a little longer.

[Doc]

Thats why I set my cams to video and put them above 6 ft (usually around 7-8 feet angling down.  Watched a pretty convincing webinar that showed some convincing data that deer tend to notice and or spook from camera shutters.  Also a straight snapshot does not necessarily tell you everything you may want to know.  They would have trail cameras taking pics and then another one higher up or on a different tree running video.  Alot of the deer actually bolted from the camera after the pic snapped and that goes for those black out cameras.  They also put cameras with no guts in them and the deer still spooked from them.  Not one of the deer noticed the cams running video that were high up angled slightly down.  After that all my cams are set for video usually 30 second clips.

I wouldn't be surprised if all of the deer attention to cameras comes as a result of human scent on them. Also, there are plastic smells and manufacturing odors that these things carry forever. They just smell completely out of place. The industry has spent a lot of R&D money on calming down the flash and noise features of these cameras, but there will always be those stray scents that come with the camera and stay with it.

 

It was interesting back before my Cuddeback "white flash" camera was stolen, I noted that even with that violent blinding flash, the deer kept coming back. They actually got used to it and I had several doe & fawn groups that had no problem with it. On the other hand, I had several of those nose shots where the deer came right up to a camera and got a good whiff of it, and they never came back again. It kind of gave me the impression that they will put up with a lot of sound and visual nonsense, but they really don't like that scent thing.

[nyslowhand]

Just got this today when I changed SD cards.