Now if you have read any of the postings on this blog, you know how much I love my trail cameras and how I like to use them. A few weeks ago, I tested and am now the proud owner of 2 PlotWatcher time elapse cameras (Read the previous review). I wanted to discuss how I am using both of these cameras for my different scouting applications.
The first application is where I placed my PlotWatchers on a mowed out lane to learn how the deer cross. I also placed it on a food plot to see where the deer are entering the food plot from their bedding areas. This is typical time elapse surveillance and the PlotWatcher and its software is built for this purpose. After getting this data, I then proceeded to place my trail cameras where I saw the deer traveling across the targeted areas mentioned above for closer day and night photos. See the video below for the results.
The second application is where I actually mount the PlotWatcher over my trail camera as shown below.
We have a new feeding station surrounded by bedding area and we wanted to know which side the deer were bedding on. This was an interesting experiment since the lane is about 100 yards long. The trail camera would pick up the deer 50 feet or less, including at night, while the PlotWatcher got the whole 100 yards but only during the day.
The video below shows the trail camera photos and the PlotWatcher videos for these different applications and it really shows the value of using a time elapse camera such as the PlotWatcher in conjunction with a trail camera. This was an interesting experiment in which I will be adding to my trail camera strategies. Stay tuned for more photos and time elapse videos.