Persistence Pays Off.
One of my camera trapping goals for this year is to capture more of the animal and its environment. In the past my style of camera trapping was to basically capture a portrait of the animal.
The sow with the cubs is a “grab from a video” . I have learned that in most cases a video grab will give you more options with picture selection and most pictures are worthy of hanging on the wall.
It took seven weeks to capture this sow with two cubs crossing the beaver dam.
Risk versus reward. This is a secluded swamp with little human interference. There were no trees close enough to the dam.to mount a trail camera. The rotted stump just to the right of the sow was punky and I was not comfortable affixing a camera to it. The only option left was to fabricate a place to secure a camera. The ideal place would be on the end of the beaver dam. I found a beaver chewed tree from the dam and sunk it in the mud, then reinforcing it with a few smaller sticks.. Now all I needed was a bear hopefully with cubs to cross the dam during the day. The rest is history.
Jim
