[eartrumpet]

No bear pics? I’ve had a couple of trail cams that were supposed to be invisible infrared flash but I think bears can see it because I always got shots of a big double barrel nose smelling the cameras. The elk, deer, wolves, antelope, coyotes all ignored them but not the bears. Those broke and I hung a new one last week, we’ll see how it behaves.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

We're still a couple of miles from the mountains and too many houses around for regular bear visits. I doubt if they can see the infrared flash, but they have an incredible sense of smell. From what I've read they are fairly notorious for tearing up trail cameras.

I have deer and sometimes raccoons sniff mine and smudge the lens, ruining any other shots for that day. Blue jays seem to pay a lot of attention to them. Most other animals have generally ignored them.

Here is about as close as I can get without the image starting to blur.