by rking | Nov 21, 2019 | featured, field notes, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas, video
Back in late August we got a call from a landowner in Scottsvalley about a deer that had been killed by a puma on her property. The puma had caught the deer on a long driveway leading up to residences at a little after dusk. The driveway had fences to either side with...
by paulh | Dec 21, 2013 | field notes, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
A trail camera we have posted at a puma scent marking site caught this brief glimpse into the busy life of a mother puma. Believe it or not, despite hundreds or thousands of trail camera videos of pumas traveling, this is the first one we’ve captured of...
by paulh | Jul 11, 2013 | field notes, technology, Uncategorized
Today’s digital motion-sensing trail cameras are a remarkable invention. Just 10 years ago, I was a managing a camera trap survey of wildlife in the fragments of once-contiguous wildlife habitat that remained as new housing subdivisions developed around Seattle. We...
by yiwei | Oct 4, 2012 | field notes, technology
About a year ago, we got this cool new cell-phone game camera – the ScoutGuard SG550M. A cell-phone game camera is one that texts and emails you when it takes a picture, at least theoretically. Well, we had some issues with it and it laid around gathering dust...