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Fox in my back yard, the video

reible

The other night on my walk I spotted something fast walking up ahead. It crossed under a street light and there was no doubt in my mind that it was a fox.

We live in the Fox Valley area, Fox River, our parks are in the Fox Valley Park District, we live on Fox Hill RD and never in the 40 plus years of living here have we seen a fox, well until the other night on one of my walks. Hoping to catch some action I have been setting my trail camera out. It finally happen, once in the morning and again this afternoon. Yes the camera is going back out tonight!

Ed

algale

Fantastic! I am lucky to somewhat regularly see foxes in my neighborhood and even in my front yard and occasionally in the back yard. Although I have seen them in daylight it is even more frequent after a snowfall to see their prints on my front walk and driveway.

reible

No new fox videos overnight but...... looking out our back window:

fox sleeping.jpg

Not a great picture but shooting from that location is always going to look like that, double glass, plastic and film.....

Camera is out again tonight.

My brother suggested putting out food but I'm inclined not to do that. His son works for "rich" guy who buys pork chops for their foxes. The rich guy is not at that home to often so when he does come he wants to see the foxes around. So he spends his money that way. I guess who are we to judge??

reible

I'm culling the mouse population in my shed and decided to see what might happen if I left a dead one out along where the fox walks. Well it appears that frozen dead mouse if not that appealing even for a fox. The good news is that it is in frame for a while which is a nice thing. And I really like how it spits it back out.......

Ed

reible

I have three cheap trail cameras and not happy with any of them. The one I'm using now has the audio issue at night as you more then likely heard if you watched the videos. Each of them has their own issues, one just randomly stops working, or has shortened length videos so I can't depend on it for anything, Another has a lot of faults triggers, way to much to watch through to be even remotely fun to do.

So I have bit the bullet and ordered a new camera. It will be here this coming Thursday so I hope the fox stays around so I can test it out on an interesting subject. I did some research and think this one will be the answer to all my hopes and dreams. If I hate it I can always return it so long as I do it soon enough.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0892T3S36/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

With tax I'm looking at just over $205 so it is not cheap. I just hope it doesn't come with any of the issues I am now dealing with. So lets see $600 - $200 = $400......

Ed

jsburger

reible wrote I have three cheap trail cameras and not happy with any of them. The one I'm using now has the audio issue at night as you more then likely heard if you watched the videos. Each of them has their own issues, one just randomly stops working, or has shortened length videos so I can't depend on it for anything, Another has a lot of faults triggers, way to much to watch through to be even remotely fun to do.

So I have bit the bullet and ordered a new camera. It will be here this coming Thursday so I hope the fox stays around so I can test it out on an interesting subject. I did some research and think this one will be the answer to all my hopes and dreams. If I hate it I can always return it so long as I do it soon enough.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0892T3S36/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

With tax I'm looking at just over $205 so it is not cheap. I just hope it doesn't come with any of the issues I am now dealing with. So lets see $600 - $200 = $400......

Ed

Wow, free shipping but arrival 26-28 Jan??? Three weeks. Never seen that on Amazon for an in stock item.

I assume that is Browning Firearms. John Browning was born in Ogden Utah in 1855. Ogden is about 8 miles east of me. That is where he made his fire arms. There is an absolutely beautiful museum in the Union Pacific Ogden train station of his fire arms. They were donated by his family. Beautiful examples of all (most?) of his creations including his extensive military weapons creations. There are also numerous one off experimental arms that he built himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning

reible

I don't know if they are part of the Browning Firearms, the web site says "Browning Trail Cameras"???

When I ordered it said:

jsburger

It doesn't matter but still a bit slow for Amazon Prime. This is what it is showing now. Maybe your post created a surge. 😃

Screenshot_2021-01-09 Amazon com Browning BTC-Patriot-FHD Recon Force Patriot Dual Full HD Trail Camera Sports Outdoors.png

reible

Fox comes by for an early afternoon visit. It seems to be coming at almost anytime, still have not had a face to face encounter.

Want to name the fox? Name and why gets you entered. I will say the grand kids will have a better chance but if you are really good you still have a chance.

Ed

JPG

reible wrote

Fox comes by for an early afternoon visit. It seems to be coming at almost anytime, still have not had a face to face encounter.

Want to name the fox? Name and why gets you entered. I will say the grand kids will have a better chance but if you are really good you still have a chance.

Ed

Redd Foxx of course. A close relative to junkyard dog.

rpd

Call it Tony, ;)

For the Magna engineer and later inventor of the Fox Super Shop.

JPG

rpd wrote Call it Tony, ;)

For the Magna engineer and later inventor of the Fox Super Shop.

I like that!

reible

Watch the left side of screen for some movement before it appears. Too bad it decide to set where we couldn't see much for a bit of grooming.

The batteries were too weak to do much overnight and the new camera came today. I set it up and got it out for the night. Dropped another dead mouse along the trail hoping it will stop for a moment to at least smell it. Looking forward to seeing what the new camera does for the videos.

Two things that I found that were not clearly spelled out, at least to me, was the night videos are only 20 second, even when set to 30 seconds. I would have preferred to have 30 seconds even if that uses more battery. The second thing was that the new feature called "Smart IR Video" is a daytime feature only. This feature starts the recording and rather then just ending at the 30 second(daytime) if it detects movement it will keep recording for up to 5 minutes. Again I did not know this was daytime only.

Hope to have some new videos to look at in the morning.

Ed

Ed in Tampa

I do not imagine you have many cars in your neighborhood, the Fox will clear them out!

JPG

Send the fox down here. We have some feral cars here that I would like to get rid of, but the neighbors keep feeding them.

rogersk

Sounds like there is a very nervous duck quacking in the background. :eek:

reible

I think the video is much better!

The fox comes though to make is appearance on camera and then shortly after an opossum shows up and want equal time. We also learn that frozen mouse is on the to be eaten menu for opossums. Glad something can benefit.

Fox is in the first one and the rest have the opossum:

Ed

Hobbyman2

Pretty cool to have one in your yard . a few years ago we were catfishing along a local river bank and had one come right up to us , be advised they like chicken liver , and catfish ..

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rogersk

Ah, frozen mouse. Doesn't get any better than that! :D

reible

No fox last night but I wanted to have you see the very first animal that captured on the new camera. The rabbit seems to notice the new camera and look right at it. This camera has invisible IR illumination and I can tell you I can't see it but maybe a rabbit can?

Then a cat came by to check out the yard. Doesn't seem to care that a fox comes through. This fox is small, maybe this past years pup?? Anyway I don't think the cat is in any danger.

Ed