Night time at the Den

I installed my "Wildcam" at the foxes den last night and collected it again this morning. It took 547 photos! The basic story of a fox den at night was that the four cubs were up playing virtually all night long, mamma fed them at 9pm and didn't show up again all night as far as I can see. I would expect she would return soon after dawn with more food as she did yesterday. Busy little guys! A magpie arrived in the morning to clean up after them. The dog fox never showed and is reputed never to bring food for them. Here are two examples.

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Very interesting, Bill. This looks like an awful lot of fun. I've been thinking of gettinng a Phototrap by Bill Forbes to capture nighttime action and daytime action. What is your light source, a built-in flash, a detachable SLR-style strobe, or is it infrared? If it was a battery powered flash, did the flash die before those 500+ photos were taken? What kind of lens is on the camera? Is the camera waterproof, how about bear-proof?

I'm loving your fox photos, Bill. Keep 'em coming. I have the same questions Don does. I have a lot of wildlife coming through my backyard and would love to start capturing what goes on out there at night.

Don, lots of questions! I bought a Moultrie 4Mp Trailcam, it has infrared flash so this isn't visible light, its weather resistant, it costs less than a DSLR!, it has a laser to help set up the correct position and it takes an SD card so it can hold a lot of images. It uses 6 D cells and so far they are going strong and handling the flash etc well.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000YADEOK/ref=s9_simh_gw_p200_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1NW3F7A61D7KEBSAASR0&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846
Its like this model.

Great way to document the lives of these kits!

Man, this is like having National Geographic right here on the forum!