Best 2018 Camera Trap Captures

As 2018 comes to a close, I am sharing the best camera trap captures from my research at Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus this year. Some captures are quite remarkable, especially of the bat. This year found the campus being flooded twice and two my cameras were completely underwater and survived.  Bird diversity was seen to…

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Testing the Waters

As I continue to monitor the wildlife diversity at Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus for the 3 Rivers Foundation, I’m often surprised by the interactions and behaviors of wildlife captured on the trail cameras. This is more evident during the Beaver Pond restoration. In March 2015, when I began monitoring the campus with the camera traps,…

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The Case of the Curious Cow

Who knew cursing at one of my camera traps would literally bring a cow to coming running? Well, not running, but her curiosity caught the best of her and she came quickly enough that it appeared as if she ran. In February of this year, I was having a heck of a time with a…

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Data Behind the Camera Trap Images

My camera trap research at Three Rivers Foundation main campus has not been all about capturing great images of wildlife on the Rolling Plains of Texas. With those images comes the most important aspect – the data. So even though I’ve been collecting camera trap images for the last two years, which amounts to 178,401…

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