@@Austins0asis thanks very much and for reaching out! I had a lot of fun making it, looking back trough all the footage. My goal is to do something similar after each season to capture changes on the property and to get better acquainted with all the wildlife. Cheers!
I think it is great to set up these cameras without bait (or attractants) of any kind...it's amazing what you can get and the diversity just with whatever animals happen to pass by. Perhaps just set up near a water source, or on a game trail. Nice gem of a property...lots of wildlife of all kinds. You are inspiring me to take my kids out to our local wildlife area this weekend. Great channel, there needs to be more channels like yours. Don't worry about the numbers game (views/subscribers, etc.)...just create the content that you think has a positive impact on others. Nice work.
@@Biodiversity-Institute thanks very much for the good advice. I’m mostly just having fun with all this and the boys. Hopefully they are learning something and we are all creating fun memories together. So at the very least, these videos will be memorialized as long as RUclips is around to look back at. As for the camera traps, yes those have all been organic; however, I still like your idea of a baited trap for the flying squirrel. As I don’t think I’ll ever be lucky enough to catch those just by chance. As I built the “bird sanctuary”, I have water trays out near the feeders and it has been fun seeing all the wildlife use those. The first two weeks of fall were especially hot and I saw everything from black bear to gray fox getting a drink from them as well as all the usual suspects. Interestingly, although I captured many shots of coyote passing by, they never drank from them. So you were also very correct about them being suspicious. It makes me very happy to know you are getting some inspiration out of our content as well. Have a great time with your kids this weekend. As you know, they are only young once, so we should enthusiastically enjoy our time with them while we have them in our care. Enjoy!
@@BackyardBiologyBoys Yes...kids grow up way too fast...that's why we keep having more...we have six! It is amazing how much you are getting just by putting water out there but makes sense for California in the fall. Flying squirrels are more common than we might realize, they are just secretive. You may also get ringtail in your neck of the woods. I've done camera trap surveys in your area before and have gotten ringtail...and fisher! (You may have too much human disturbance in your immediate area for fisher.)
Great video love the trail camera footage
@@Austins0asis thanks very much and for reaching out! I had a lot of fun making it, looking back trough all the footage. My goal is to do something similar after each season to capture changes on the property and to get better acquainted with all the wildlife. Cheers!
@@BackyardBiologyBoys that would be cool
I think it is great to set up these cameras without bait (or attractants) of any kind...it's amazing what you can get and the diversity just with whatever animals happen to pass by. Perhaps just set up near a water source, or on a game trail. Nice gem of a property...lots of wildlife of all kinds. You are inspiring me to take my kids out to our local wildlife area this weekend. Great channel, there needs to be more channels like yours. Don't worry about the numbers game (views/subscribers, etc.)...just create the content that you think has a positive impact on others. Nice work.
@@Biodiversity-Institute thanks very much for the good advice. I’m mostly just having fun with all this and the boys. Hopefully they are learning something and we are all creating fun memories together. So at the very least, these videos will be memorialized as long as RUclips is around to look back at. As for the camera traps, yes those have all been organic; however, I still like your idea of a baited trap for the flying squirrel. As I don’t think I’ll ever be lucky enough to catch those just by chance. As I built the “bird sanctuary”, I have water trays out near the feeders and it has been fun seeing all the wildlife use those. The first two weeks of fall were especially hot and I saw everything from black bear to gray fox getting a drink from them as well as all the usual suspects. Interestingly, although I captured many shots of coyote passing by, they never drank from them. So you were also very correct about them being suspicious. It makes me very happy to know you are getting some inspiration out of our content as well. Have a great time with your kids this weekend. As you know, they are only young once, so we should enthusiastically enjoy our time with them while we have them in our care. Enjoy!
@@BackyardBiologyBoys Yes...kids grow up way too fast...that's why we keep having more...we have six! It is amazing how much you are getting just by putting water out there but makes sense for California in the fall. Flying squirrels are more common than we might realize, they are just secretive. You may also get ringtail in your neck of the woods. I've done camera trap surveys in your area before and have gotten ringtail...and fisher! (You may have too much human disturbance in your immediate area for fisher.)