Well, with the move to a new mountain community, out of the city and the criminal element.. we now have something more interesting (and less dangerous) to watch. 🙂

I recently purchased an IR wildlife camera and have been testing out various locations around the yard for it.

One the first night testing, it captured this coyote visiting us around 9:00 PM.

The next time, at almost at the same time, another was captured. Could be the same one, but we know there are several in the area:

Earlier that same night, we heard what sounded like 5-10 coyotes attacking/eating something just up the hill from us. It was very loud, and the dog was quite distressed by it all, staying very agitated and on alert for hours afterwards.

The camera just happened to trip about 20 min. into the “event”, and it caught this audio. I had to punch it up a bit to hear much of anything, but it’s there.

Last night was a much calmer evening. We we woke up in the morning we noticed that some reflective posts were knocked over near the car (they were just leaning against the car port posts). The camera tripped around 2:00 AM, but nothing was seen in the still photos, and most of the video until the last 5 seconds, this little thing was captured. We know there are a number of rabbits, and it looks like maybe this was one hopping around on the driveway. Or a ghost!!! (lol). You can call it whatever you want.

I’m not sure I’m going to leave the camera there.. it doesn’t seem to work as well with just the blacktop in view. More testing is needed.