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| Endangered San Joaquin Kit Fox... |
You have to love camera traps. These tools allow the wildlife photographer to extend their reach into the world of rare and nocturnal animals, creatures that are almost impossible to photograph in the daytime. No surprise that I have been employing them for my coverage of Kit Foxes in southern California. It has taken me several days to locate the foxes, and determine which dens were active, and to get my cameras set. Already I've had some near-misses, and some complete misses, in my search for pictures. Witness this shot of a wild fox, passing by the camera and proving, once again, that these tools are not flawless and require A LOT of exposures to get one that works...
But the funniest (sort of) of the shots I got involved a the very strong winds that blew in from the Pacific over the last few days. I had set the camera up at what I knew was a busy fox den, looking forward to getting shots of them coming and going. As it happened, however, a powerful storm hit overnight - and the gale-force winds plastered a big tumbleweed right up against my camera trap. With my motion sensor activated, every time the tumbleweed jiggled in the wind, I got another frame... In the end, I came away with 134 close-ups of tumbleweeds, and no foxes... Gotta love it...
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| Tumbleweed study #93 |
Still, hope springs eternal. I'll try again tonight...
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