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Hey guys,
I had a great discussion concerning a deers ability to see the IR flash on a commercial IR trail camera, (such as the Cuddeback No-Flash), the other day. During the discussion I learned a lot from another member of the NJH board (Double Lunger) about the different IR's available. While Double Lunger explained that it is clearly possibly to make IR cameras that the deer can not see...it seemed equally clear that most current commercial available camera's are not using that technology.
When I was having the discussion the other day I did not have access to all of my pics...However, as I was erasing a bunch of old trail cam pics today I came upon so many excellent examples of deer recognizing the cam, even in the dark of night, while taking IR pics I figured I would share some recent pics to show exactly what I was discussing.
All of the pics below are of a buck I call the "curler". This particular buck seems to have some kind of fetish with the camera...every time it sees the camera going off it does a "fleming" lip curl...[spy] In fact, he almost seems to like the process; sometimes spending as much as an hour in front of the cam as if he is waiting for more...[rofl]
My point here is...this buck is not only unquestionably aware that the camera is there...it is also physically responding to the camera at the time it is taking pictures...and not just in a startled sense as if heard a noise...but it is looking perfectly straight at the camera...as it can obviously see the IR when it is preparing for the camera to trigger.[eek]
JC
JC
I had a great discussion concerning a deers ability to see the IR flash on a commercial IR trail camera, (such as the Cuddeback No-Flash), the other day. During the discussion I learned a lot from another member of the NJH board (Double Lunger) about the different IR's available. While Double Lunger explained that it is clearly possibly to make IR cameras that the deer can not see...it seemed equally clear that most current commercial available camera's are not using that technology.
When I was having the discussion the other day I did not have access to all of my pics...However, as I was erasing a bunch of old trail cam pics today I came upon so many excellent examples of deer recognizing the cam, even in the dark of night, while taking IR pics I figured I would share some recent pics to show exactly what I was discussing.
All of the pics below are of a buck I call the "curler". This particular buck seems to have some kind of fetish with the camera...every time it sees the camera going off it does a "fleming" lip curl...[spy] In fact, he almost seems to like the process; sometimes spending as much as an hour in front of the cam as if he is waiting for more...[rofl]
My point here is...this buck is not only unquestionably aware that the camera is there...it is also physically responding to the camera at the time it is taking pictures...and not just in a startled sense as if heard a noise...but it is looking perfectly straight at the camera...as it can obviously see the IR when it is preparing for the camera to trigger.[eek]
JC
JC