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Thanks for watching! If you can find an area with two distinctly different habitat types adjacent to each other (like high & dry bordering on low and wet) there is often a lot of activity. Good luck.
How do you set up your cam so you don't capture a million shots of ripples on the water surface? I have one next to a river and I get a bunch of "wave" shots LOL
I think the ripples in the little creeks I visit are small enough that it isn't a problem. Also there is shade on the water much of the time. I get more false detections from blowing plants on windy days than anything else.
@@WatershedWildlife mine was next to a big river I just bought a better camera that I can see the angle on my phone so setting it up is easier so it's not pointing directly at the water as much but the plants waving in the wind is like you said thanks for answering me back
Fantastic video lots of different animals, am assuming that was same mink? Do people still trap them for there fur? Hope not but..... cute little mink ♥️
Mink is a great addition to the diversity. With the right permits you can trap about anything in Michigan. It's a throw-back to 1900 when most native species including Bald Eagles were considered varmints.
Is that a weasel or mink at about 14 seconds, right after the raccoon? Do you mind saying which Michigan county this is in? Nice video. Your Browning produces good night videos with respectable distance vision.
It's a mink. I catch them on camera infrequently. I also see the occasional Long-tailed weasel. I do most of my shooting in Muskegon County. I like the Browning cameras for the quality of the video and audio although their durability is less than I'd like. Thanks for watching!!
@@WatershedWildlife I've been binge watching your videos. I live on the opposite side of the state in Lenawee County. We don't have a great variety of critters, but I'm still hoping for a bobcat. I've heard they do show up here, once in a while.
Cheers to Australia! They are mostly looking for small invertebrates or larval forms of most anything in the water. I'm sure they wouldn't mind a crustacean if they found one.
@@WatershedWildlife is the creek any where near Kalkaska? That's where my grandmother (whose family hails from the UP) had a summer house and we used to spend all our summers June to September there. I remember the crystal clear creeks and streams. We even took water bottles to fill 'em up. But that was back in the 60s and 70s. I hope some are still just as pristine but I fear that agricultural run-off may have polluted many.
It's actually a fairly large glow. The IR illumination turns on so the camera can see. They see a glow at the camera but like us they don't see the illumination.
@@geraldbostock9858 There's a very faint sound the camera makes as it's taking pictures. We can barely hear it, but a deer, having much better hearing than us, pick it up easily.
Watershed Wildlife Bad thing now most of them are going to the cellular trail cameras. I have 14 trail cameras that’s way too much money for me to be spending for pictures. My niece got it for her husband to get unlimited pictures it’s $300 a year per camera
A variety of towns. I'll have to say West Michigan within about 15 miles of Lake Michigan. Usually private property with the understanding that I won't reveal individual locations.
Not once did I think raccoons hunt or travel in groups, I always thought of them as solitary animals as you always see them lurking in the night alone.
Very often family groups (mom & kits) that eventually break up and start over in the spring. Here's a family group in early summer at about 2:30 in the vid. th-cam.com/video/M2ecg1FxlKI/w-d-xo.html
@@BushcraftNick I'm sure they're good but they wouldn't work for what I do & the model numbers have all changed since I got mine. I haven't tried the 9v Strike Force but I can tell you the minimum I'd look for if I had to replace one of mine: Full HD video (1920x1080), 12v external socket (ie. 8 AA's, not 6) and a color view screen. Those specs leave only a couple choices for me for a Browning.
Wolves are almost a nuisance in the UP depending on who you ask. They are definitely an apex predator and their effect on deer population is noticeable.
I’ve lived my entire 62 year in Michigan. To answer (to the best of my ability) some of your questions about wolves, I had 160 acres of prime deer hunting property in the north western part of Michigan’s upper peninsula, between Bergland and Ewen that when I purchased it around 1985 it wasn’t uncommon to lose count of the deer you would see on the trip from camp to town, approximately 7 miles. Most of the property was the last cut of hay
So it was easy to see the deer. By the time I sold the property in 2015 you were lucky if you saw 5 deer the entire 2 weeks we’d spend up north during deer season. But you’d see wolves all day every day if you took the time and looked. I finally gave up deer hunting. The wolves even started taking a toll on the black bears.its been 5 years since I’ve been back and it doesn’t sound like things have gotten any better. Most of the guys I used to hunt with are either dead themselves or have moved. There was an old boy who had over 400 head of cattle on the corner of Hokens Rd. And M28 that he tried to make a go at raising in the 20 plus years I had property up there. The wolves put him out of business long before I sold out.Talk about a sickening sound, listen to a pack of wolves take down and kill an adult cow in the middle of the night from a mile or 2 away. Made you sick. After awhile you just got numb to it. Anyway I hope I answered some of the questions people had about wolves in Michigan. The DNR have confirmed wolves have crossed into the lower part of the state based on winter surveys. They’ve crossed the ice from the upper peninsula to the northern part of the lower peninsula. I’m not sure of their survival rates. Anyway it’s my understanding if they’re seen by the locals in the northern part of the lower peninsula they tend to die quickly from lead poisoning! Justifiably so based on what I’ve seen in the north west part of the UP!!!!!! EH!!!!!
Yea they definitely need to be hunted and controlled. The coywolfs or coyotes dog mixes luckily still go after smaller prey. But they wipe out a lot of animals. I haven’t seen a skunk in years and when I first moved to New England they were everywhere, same with opossum. I can appreciate wolves but glad there not here in New Hampshire.
We don't have as much colorful bird life and the cold winters limit the variety of things that crawl. We have very colorful autumns and the snow can be very pretty. We also have large areas of remote woods and a west coast and an east coast with beaches. So yes but different.
ScottCantDance yeah the property my family bought has about 4 or 5 more neighbors that collectively own the dam. There is a small forest behind the lake which has a big creek with lots of cool fish tho!
Never having used a trail cam th-cam.com/users/postUgkx2sTDdZXomuxedMg_HothfjSXjR3rpPkA before, I was very impressed with the quality of the images and videos. The sensitivity of the camera can be adjusted as well as the length of video recordings. Once I found the sweet spot, I was getting great clips of deer and other animals almost every day. I was worried about battery life but have been running off the same 4 aa batteries for over a month. The SD card is easy to remove and connect to a computer. I have a Mac, and the AVI files open natively in QuickTime and are easy to save and share. This is a great, budget-friendly trail cam.
I've never been told but I'd guess it's a fair warning to keep animals at a distance. Once sprayed, a predictor would likely see the big vertical tail as a warning flag and avoid considering the skunk as a potential meal again. Good for both parties.
@@WatershedWildlife it didn't seem to faze my dog. I have a wire fox terrier. One day I found her flipping a skunk in the air by its tail. The skunk must have missed or ran out of ammo because my wire didn't smell at all.
I use three Browning "Recon Force Extreme" cameras. I've used Proofcam, Stealthcam, Adventuridge but the Browning is by far the best for video quality and audio sensitivity.
Watershed Wildlife "It was coined "murder" because some doublet clad Englishman wanted to show off his poetical talents by cementing the species bum rap" Most ornithologist refer to a group of birds, any birds, as a flock. Although i do like that the English language has a sense of humour and whimsy. Did you know that a group of otters are called a "romp of otters"?
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I've been struggling with depression lately. Thank you for posting this. It helps
Depression is debilitating & can happen to anyone. I wish you the best. I have a lot of videos on my channel but another viewer commented how much the one at the following link actually helped her: th-cam.com/video/iZdEoSi7UvQ/w-d-xo.html
Hope you feel better
Skunks have such beautiful tails! The racoon grabbing hold of the other raccoons tail was funny! Also loved the twin deer.
I just love this stuff!!!!
It's a lot of fun to recover the SD cards to see what's happened when no one's around.
Loving these videos. So many different animals we don't see down here in Australia.....
Happy to have you visit! Come again.
This is so peaceful and calming amidst the 22 inches of snow outside.
So, a skunk walks through and it's nearly 8 hours before anybody else uses the same path lol. Really enjoyed the video.
Love to watch the mink!
It’s great to see these animals free to get on with there lives.
Thanks for cutting out all the dead time. Great video!
Very cool footage I do a lot of trail cams and haven’t had as good luck on brooks awesome!
Thanks for watching! If you can find an area with two distinctly different habitat types adjacent to each other (like high & dry bordering on low and wet) there is often a lot of activity. Good luck.
All the animals look healthy. Good work
Thanks. Wish I could take credit for their health. I do sadly see the occasional walking wounded.
Sportsmen take a lot of crap from the Left. We love and support wildlife first and foremost!
lol ..that raccoon biting the tail of the other ....thumbs up !!!
Don't Hunt and kill, watch and admire. 😀
You can't eat photos
highcee024.
You need to Hunt for food nowa days ?
Well some people like hunting my uncle was a great hunter and didn’t disrespect anything he caught it killed in any way.
ChrispyChilris.
Well, hunting or killing should not be A pleasure for me.
Even animals.......
We Have to respect Nature.
I loved your video.Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Raccoons are hilarious! The one biting the others tail.. I laughed
Probably brothers!
Watershed Wildlife probably.. and the younger is the one doing the biting
Great video,thanks for sharing
Lots of good reasons not to drink the water. Love the wildlife. Thank you.
How do you set up your cam so you don't capture a million shots of ripples on the water surface? I have one next to a river and I get a bunch of "wave" shots LOL
I think the ripples in the little creeks I visit are small enough that it isn't a problem. Also there is shade on the water much of the time. I get more false detections from blowing plants on windy days than anything else.
@@WatershedWildlife mine was next to a big river I just bought a better camera that I can see the angle on my phone so setting it up is easier so it's not pointing directly at the water as much but the plants waving in the wind is like you said thanks for answering me back
Fantastic video lots of different animals, am assuming that was same mink? Do people still trap them for there fur? Hope not but..... cute little mink ♥️
Mink is a great addition to the diversity. With the right permits you can trap about anything in Michigan. It's a throw-back to 1900 when most native species including Bald Eagles were considered varmints.
@@WatershedWildlife so sad that we humans have evolved so little despite all we know now about other sentient beings and how they suffer
Thank You for sharing!
i love it. more more
Is that a weasel or mink at about 14 seconds, right after the raccoon? Do you mind saying which Michigan county this is in? Nice video. Your Browning produces good night videos with respectable distance vision.
It's a mink. I catch them on camera infrequently. I also see the occasional Long-tailed weasel. I do most of my shooting in Muskegon County. I like the Browning cameras for the quality of the video and audio although their durability is less than I'd like. Thanks for watching!!
@@WatershedWildlife I've been binge watching your videos. I live on the opposite side of the state in Lenawee County. We don't have a great variety of critters, but I'm still hoping for a bobcat. I've heard they do show up here, once in a while.
AWESOME!
Thanks! You can find more on my TH-cam channel at watershedwildlife.
Hi from Australia. Except for the animals looks just like any creek here in Victoria Australia. What are the raccoons looking for?Cheers.
Cheers to Australia! They are mostly looking for small invertebrates or larval forms of most anything in the water. I'm sure they wouldn't mind a crustacean if they found one.
Crawdads ( cray fish), mollusks, small fish.
Very nice creek wondering what area of Michigan I live in upper michigan
The creeks are in Western Michigan away from population centers. I lived in the UP for a couple of years. Crazy winters!
@@WatershedWildlife is the creek any where near Kalkaska? That's where my grandmother (whose family hails from the UP) had a summer house and we used to spend all our summers June to September there. I remember the crystal clear creeks and streams. We even took water bottles to fill 'em up. But that was back in the 60s and 70s. I hope some are still just as pristine but I fear that agricultural run-off may have polluted many.
Fun watching that. I've lived in Michigan for all my 71 years ... can I ask in what county this video was taken?
It can vary but Muskegon River & White River watersheds mostly.
@@WatershedWildlife I live in Whitehall. I wonder if that is why I am being shown this one. Loved it BTW. Looks like any small woodsy creek in MI.
Very good vídeo, very good job 🤗👍
There must be a small dot of light on the camera attracting the eye of the deer. They took notice of it, made them cautiously curious.
It's actually a fairly large glow. The IR illumination turns on so the camera can see. They see a glow at the camera but like us they don't see the illumination.
For some reason deer will often look right into a trail cam, even when it's well hidden. The seem to just know its there.
@@geraldbostock9858 There's a very faint sound the camera makes as it's taking pictures. We can barely hear it, but a deer, having much better hearing than us, pick it up easily.
Awesome
Did someone else also did not see only deer at 2:07
Just another deer 🦌
what camera did you use for this? I'm interested in doing this in my backyard creek as well. Nice vid
A Browning full HD camera. My model is discontinued but a lot of new choices now.
Watershed Wildlife Bad thing now most of them are going to the cellular trail cameras. I have 14 trail cameras that’s way too much money for me to be spending for pictures. My niece got it for her husband to get unlimited pictures it’s $300 a year per camera
@@WatershedWildlife thank you gonna do this at my creek
Is that a pine marten or an otter???
It is a mink.
Watershed Wildlife wow! Ive never seen a mink, awesome! Thank you! In my 50s, 👋 from north california
So cool!
What town is this near?
NEWARK NJ.
A variety of towns. I'll have to say West Michigan within about 15 miles of Lake Michigan. Usually private property with the understanding that I won't reveal individual locations.
I was just curious. No problem.
I'm a lifetime Michigander who's spent alot of time roaming all over Michigan.
Not once did I think raccoons hunt or travel in groups, I always thought of them as solitary animals as you always see them lurking in the night alone.
Very often family groups (mom & kits) that eventually break up and start over in the spring. Here's a family group in early summer at about 2:30 in the vid.
th-cam.com/video/M2ecg1FxlKI/w-d-xo.html
Is this upper peninsula or south? Which county?
Western, lower. The land of trolls.
@@WatershedWildlife So this is in the Mesick area?
What kind of trail camera is this
"Browning recon force extreme" for the video & audio quality.
Watershed Wildlife I’m replacing my old cameras and I’m looking into the browning strike force. Is it any good
@@BushcraftNick I'm sure they're good but they wouldn't work for what I do & the model numbers have all changed since I got mine. I haven't tried the 9v Strike Force but I can tell you the minimum I'd look for if I had to replace one of mine: Full HD video (1920x1080), 12v external socket (ie. 8 AA's, not 6) and a color view screen. Those specs leave only a couple choices for me for a Browning.
Watershed Wildlife ok thanks for the help
Any wolves in Michigan, here in New Hampshire we don’t have wolves but we get some huge coyotes that people say are crossed with wolf . Coywolfs.
Wolves are almost a nuisance in the UP depending on who you ask. They are definitely an apex predator and their effect on deer population is noticeable.
I hope they don't get into the lower Peninsula. We will be out of the sheep business for sure.
I’ve lived my entire 62 year in Michigan. To answer (to the best of my ability) some of your questions about wolves, I had 160 acres of prime deer hunting property in the north western part of Michigan’s upper peninsula, between Bergland and Ewen that when I purchased it around 1985 it wasn’t uncommon to lose count of the deer you would see on the trip from camp to town, approximately 7 miles. Most of the property was the last cut of hay
So it was easy to see the deer. By the time I sold the property in 2015 you were lucky if you saw 5 deer the entire 2 weeks we’d spend up north during deer season. But you’d see wolves all day every day if you took the time and looked. I finally gave up deer hunting. The wolves even started taking a toll on the black bears.its been 5 years since I’ve been back and it doesn’t sound like things have gotten any better. Most of the guys I used to hunt with are either dead themselves or have moved. There was an old boy who had over 400 head of cattle on the corner of Hokens Rd. And M28 that he tried to make a go at raising in the 20 plus years I had property up there. The wolves put him out of business long before I sold out.Talk about a sickening sound, listen to a pack of wolves take down and kill an adult cow in the middle of the night from a mile or 2 away. Made you sick. After awhile you just got numb to it. Anyway I hope I answered some of the questions people had about wolves in Michigan. The DNR have confirmed wolves have crossed into the lower part of the state based on winter surveys. They’ve crossed the ice from the upper peninsula to the northern part of the lower peninsula. I’m not sure of their survival rates. Anyway it’s my understanding if they’re seen by the locals in the northern part of the lower peninsula they tend to die quickly from lead poisoning! Justifiably so based on what I’ve seen in the north west part of the UP!!!!!! EH!!!!!
Yea they definitely need to be hunted and controlled. The coywolfs or coyotes dog mixes luckily still go after smaller prey. But they wipe out a lot of animals. I haven’t seen a skunk in years and when I first moved to New England they were everywhere, same with opossum. I can appreciate wolves but glad there not here in New Hampshire.
thank you !
If the deer can spot the camera, we have no chance at all to capture footage of Bigfoot.
I am from Costa Rica! Is Michigan beautiful?
We don't have as much colorful bird life and the cold winters limit the variety of things that crawl. We have very colorful autumns and the snow can be very pretty. We also have large areas of remote woods and a west coast and an east coast with beaches. So yes but different.
Very beautiful. Cold winters, true, but very beautiful.
Lisa Willis wow thanks
It’s Beautiful. Winters get cold, but summers and falls are very nice.
Michigan is like no other place. I own riverfront property in northern michigan. Check out my videos!
Nice vedio
Thank you.
13 dislikes?! wth? weirdos
irreligious libertines
I just bought a camera not only to track wildlife but we also see people who cross my dam on trucks, which is illegal
Dam illegal!
You... own a dam?
ScottCantDance yeah the property my family bought has about 4 or 5 more neighbors that collectively own the dam. There is a small forest behind the lake which has a big creek with lots of cool fish tho!
Never having used a trail cam th-cam.com/users/postUgkx2sTDdZXomuxedMg_HothfjSXjR3rpPkA before, I was very impressed with the quality of the images and videos. The sensitivity of the camera can be adjusted as well as the length of video recordings. Once I found the sweet spot, I was getting great clips of deer and other animals almost every day. I was worried about battery life but have been running off the same 4 aa batteries for over a month. The SD card is easy to remove and connect to a computer. I have a Mac, and the AVI files open natively in QuickTime and are easy to save and share. This is a great, budget-friendly trail cam.
Thank you very much!
very cool
I’m holding out that Bigfoot will be caught on camera one day
Black bear and otter are on my list but even if it's just a tall turkey hunter in a ghillie suit, you'll see it here.
He’ll be blurry.
Watershed Wildlife black bear in south western Michigan ? What area?
why do skunks have such long fluffy tails? i'm sure there is a story behind it, somewhere.
I've never been told but I'd guess it's a fair warning to keep animals at a distance. Once sprayed, a predictor would likely see the big vertical tail as a warning flag and avoid considering the skunk as a potential meal again. Good for both parties.
Once they treat you ( as and animal) you never forget that flag. They wave it around threatening.
@@WatershedWildlife it didn't seem to faze my dog. I have a wire fox terrier. One day I found her flipping a skunk in the air by its tail. The skunk must have missed or ran out of ammo because my wire didn't smell at all.
Camera cost please and company
~$170 Browning. New models avail.
Detroit?
🤣
What camera do you use?
I use three Browning "Recon Force Extreme" cameras. I've used Proofcam, Stealthcam, Adventuridge but the Browning is by far the best for video quality and audio sensitivity.
2:57 A gaze of raccoons
Cool, a new term! Unfortunate that crows got stuck with "murder".
Watershed Wildlife a group of bats is a cauldron which i think is quite poetic
Watershed Wildlife "It was coined "murder" because some doublet clad Englishman wanted to show off his poetical talents by cementing the species bum rap" Most ornithologist refer to a group of birds, any birds, as a flock. Although i do like that the English language has a sense of humour and whimsy. Did you know that a group of otters are called a "romp of otters"?
So interesting
Don't Bite!
God's creatures going about their lives
Know where to hunt now, by the waters at night.
Good thing rhey didnt poop in the water.
Nice marmot.
Raccoon = 15 pound rat
@ That's right they do the same as a 15 pound rat though.
Idiot
Hardly.
Yuhi pani chahiye aur wo bhi apne sharto pe … saath hi bimari lagaogi aur fir hame ye manzoor hona chahiye…. To fir aise condition apne par hi lago larna ,,, hey lady … hey …..
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