>>2765467More a trail cam thread question but that thread
>>2719020 has been dead for a while. How do you guys set your cams so they don't scare deer? The only thing I can think is to git gud at camouflaging the cameras but that's a ton of extra effort that may end up covering the lens, sensor, or IR LEDs when the wind blows; I've also tried to camouflage with surrounding brush in the past and they spook anyways so it must be the lens and LEDs. Thinking back on it, no other animal cares, just deer getting scared of a camera they've walked by for a month or more daily. They get interested in it and sniff it and then every now and then just jump and run. Sometimes they avoid them about 20 feet away. Sometimes I've had deer fully stop coming through an area because of one noticed camera. I have to put them real low. If they're set above about a foot they get kinda spooked. Anywhere near shoulder height and they're extremely scared. Can't imagine any higher would be better, and it'd be bad for camouflaging it as well. I have a good spot but the contents of the video are lacking. Great information if I wanted to hunt deer there but terrible as they tend to do little but walk through and sometimes sniff the camera in the spot I have it. I do catch hints of interesting things happening but far enough away that I don't get to see much detail.
I see guys getting videos of deer online where they seem to not even notice the camera. What am I doing wrong here, if anything? I've played with angles before but there's only so much that can do; you can play with the direction the camera faces to see if you can record deer from a blind spot but often the path is used in both directions so it's not very helpful as they eventually do find it. Here's a pic of an extremely grainy robin in bad lighting conditions.
