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Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #630 12/10/16 03:44 PM
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Now you're going to know I'm crazy for sure. I drove to Eureka, Montana and back this morning to get my stuff from the Montana Shipping Outlet. I mentioned in a previous post that I get most of my on-line purchases shipped there as most sellers on ebay ship stuff free within the 48 states. I usually go down for the whole weekend and stay at one of the two properties my brothers own there. Not today. It was a down and back mail run. Middle of winter, crappy, slippery roads and steady snow falling through the Crowsnest Pass (Hiway 3) and down into Montana. I left at 4:40 this morning and was back at 2:05 this afternoon. 704 kms which is approximately 422 miles. I drove my 2014 Nissan Sentra which has a 6 speed manual transmission. I have it equipped with studded winter tires. It cost me approximately 35.00 in fuel. The best mpg I have got with it is 57.6 mpg (Imperial gallons) which is 4.9 liters/100 kms. Great little car. One of the items I picked up down there was that second Trophy Cam HD Essential game camera. As soon as the weather warms up a bit I'll get them all out there again. There will be a total of four game cameras operating.

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Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #631 12/19/16 08:20 PM
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Our bitter cold snap has ended. It was two weeks long and I saw multiple days of -25C and colder. The coldest was -31C. I can deal with two or three days of temperatures like that but two weeks is quite annoying! Anyways, I was outside yesterday splitting wood on a balmy -1C day. It was nice but it has been windy. Very windy today. Semi trailers have been blown over on the open highways. I placed all four game cameras yesterday and will swap out the SD cards in a few days. With this wind I might just get pictures and videos of moving branches and weeds. I try to place the cameras to have little effect from that but it is pretty hard to stop them from some false triggers.

Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #632 12/23/16 08:57 PM
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Snowfall most of the day today and will carry into tomorrow. I will be using the snowblower on the driveway for the first time this season in the morning. After that I will swap out the SD cards in the cameras and see if we get a Christmas present. It is currently -6.8C.

Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #633 12/24/16 04:43 PM
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We had a decent dump of snow since yesterday. Maybe 5 or 6 inches. I cleared the driveway this morning with the snowblower and then fired up the quad after lunch. I changed the SD cards in the cameras. Unfortunately there were no interesting game pictures to post. However, I did take a few pics while riding around this afternoon tracking up all my trails. Like I have said previously, I am trying to keep them open all winter. Kind of a grey day today but beautiful none the less.

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Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #634 12/25/16 02:38 PM
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Christmas Day. What a difference some sunshine makes. Gorgeous day. About -13C when these were taken a bit earlier. I adjusted the contrast on a couple of these. The pictures will be over several posts.

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Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #635 12/25/16 02:40 PM
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Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #636 12/25/16 02:44 PM
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Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #637 12/26/16 04:21 PM
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DING DING DING! We got our Christmas present and it is pretty special. I decided to check the cameras again today. Check out this sequence of photos. Notice the camera tilting. This is so cool!! I didn't include about 3 in the sequence because they showed the same thing.

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Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #638 12/26/16 05:38 PM
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Those pictures were taken with one of the Bushnell HD Essential game cameras. As I have said before they are a "low glow" camera so the animals can see the infrared display (about 3x1.5"). Some animals may be spooked by this, but apparently some are curious!

Re: Full Timing in Alberta Foothills [Re: OldRebel] #639 12/28/16 09:32 PM
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For those interested. When one of these cameras is set to take still pictures the infrared light panel lights up and goes off much like any typical flash bulb. They stay on longer than a flash bulb. So the cougar above noticed the infrared flash and got curious. It was set to take a picture with a three second interval. The cougar was either pawing it or mouthing it or both. The pictures I omitted are totally washed out infrared shots. The test over time will be whether to set those two HD Essential cameras to take stills or video. When on video the infrared panel will be lit up for ten seconds at a time. Great quality though. It's becoming a hobby.....ya think?

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