Another Day In The Swamp

Last sunday we were in wattensaw again. We were going to pick up two cameras and deploy another. But we ran into some trouble.

When we arrived at the spot where we left our first camera on a tripod, we couldn't find it. It was facing above the bayou, and apparently someone had seen it and stolen it for whatever reason. This was the camera I really wanted to review, the pictures would have been great.

So, we headed to our second camera, grabed it, and headed to a heavily scaled Honey Locust. We positioned the camera facing the scaled tree strapped to another tree- because some jerk stole our tripod- and set it to take a picture every minute, then we headed out of the swamp.

On the camera that wasn't stolen we got some great deer shots, which are posted below. Next week we may have an IBWO picture.

103 Degrees

We were back in Wattensaw today. The water level was way down, but we could still easily move around in our kayak. It was a really really hot day. In hopes that we would hear something again, we left our R-09HR recorder running at all times.

We headed to pick up our camera that we aimed on a tree with scaled bark. It had 800 pictures on it, less than expected. We took some good pictures of the tree and took the camera, then headed down stream to position our other two cameras.

When we arrived at the spot where we heard the great double knock we planted a camera. We placed it on a tripod and aimed it above the bayou's channal so that we might take a picture of an Ivory-bill flying over the bayou. Then we placed the second camera doing the same thing.

We were heading out of the bayou when we spotted a partially bare tree. I didn't think it was a scaled tree at first, just a tree peeling bark. My dad wanted me to get out and look at it, so I did.
When I saw the tree up close, I realized it might be a scaled tree. I called my dad over to bring the digital camera, and I took some pictures of it. There was what appeared to be bill marks on the wood, and the scaling was very extensive. It was too bad we already positioned all the camera traps! We'll plant a camera on it next week.

We didn't get any birds on our camera trap we picked up today, just a deer, which is posted below. The other picture is the tree we planted the camera on.

We didn't see or hear anything today, and we didn't get any IBWOs on our camera, but it was a pretty good day.