I'm looking for a trail cam for my property, I don't hunt but I'd like to see whats running around our acreage checking out our chickens. Any advice on what I should be looking for, trusted brands, best bang for my buck?
Trail cameras
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I use Stealth Cam entirely now. Best product in the $100-$200 range depending on model. My recommendation is to buy the best batteries and SD card available.
Bumping this question for my parents. They have a small acreage and are very into looking at and watching the wildlife on their property.
Budget is under $150 ideally but could stretch another $50 for the perfect solution. Can you sync these to wifi if close enough to your house? Cameras that that can send to a phone or laptop would be ideal but not sure on cost and subscription plans. The ideal trees would be between 50 and 80 feet from the house if that matters for wifi.
Following. We have foxes, turkeys, and a big honking buck wandering around the yard, would be neat to see what's going on after hours. I know the foxes come right up to the house, because they crap mulberries all over the sidewalk...
Big outdoor hunting family. Deer, Turkey, lots and lots of trapping. Honestly, we've switched to a security cell provided Arlo camera. You can add it to your cell phone, turn it on, mount it and either watch live video (like a security camera) or set it to take photo images on movement (like a trail cam). We were trying to trap beaver so we found a dam they were working on. We set up the camera and watched them build it. Took it down and put it in the timber to watch for deer as the season came and now we have it out on some coyote runs. We shut down the service when we werent using it during summer and then called our cellphone provider and had them turn it back on last fall for the beaver dam. Camera was $100 and the cell service is $10 a month (per uscellular).
I have a couple Tactacam trail cameras that I really like. They send photos to an app on your phone. Its really fun to see what is going on in close to real time as it does take a few minutes for the camera to send you the photo. It is subscription based but only like $5 a month for their base plan. The app also has a ton of options for sorting the photos and changing the camera settings.
Once in a while, late at night, but not often. They come to feed on the dropped seeds at the birdfeeder.
Saw one pancaked on the street about a month ago, and haven't seen one at the feeder since... probably not a coincidence.