Setting TC Goals

 

Keeping Track – Every year I set goals for my trail camera work. For 2025, I aimed to find a new area, and after scouting a swamp with a beaver dam and a big boulder in it, I thought it would be great place to try and capture a bear standing on a rock (Goal #2). I set up two trail cameras, which over six months recorded over a thousand videos—only 21  showed bears passing the rock. Most TC triggers were from moving vegetation, so after adjusting for spring growth, I set the cameras to one-minute . This week a TC finally videoed a bear stopped on the boulder. Not quite what I envisioned, but I’ll take it.

Jim

Time To Setup For Moose

 

 Young Bull Pic above is from a trail camera moose set a few years ago,

It was a busy week moving trail cameras around in anticipation of the moose rut activity in Sept./Oct.  Moose activity on my trail cameras this year has been 3X more than any previous year. I’m not quite sure why that is. All I can hope for is 3X more bull activity than any prior year. That would be incredible.

Trail Camera YTD bear activity this year through August was up slightly from last year. Although bear activity was consistent April – August, I didn’t have any real hot spots as in previous years,

With little rain this summer, wetlands have low water. That makes for ideal tracking conditions in soft substrate ( mud / wet sand )  I spent the morning looking for tracks and was hoping to find a bear track in the mud, No luck with that ! I found deer ,raccoon, otter and coyote tracks

The injured bear YouTube video continues to draw interest. A few weeks back II shared the video, it had 40k views. This morning it reached 51k views.

In case you missed it,

Part 1   https://youtu.be/L96iYigKDQg

Part 2   https://youtu.be/1IjdGgA0M4g

 

Jim