sometimes.....even low glow infra red

Definitely.

I just had a series of pictures from one trail cam taking pics of a big blacktail buck walking down a trail where a red glow camera was. The buck jumped and ran when the red glow camera turned on. I've seen a few pictures from the camera that scared the animal, but this was the first series of pics that showed what happened from another angle. I try to use all black flash cams, or even white flash cams, but I still have a few red glow cameras- in this case a bushnell. Normally not much of a problem, but this bucks sure was scared. He came right back the next night though.

I think of them as attractants, I don't know why animals are so fascinated by them, but I have numerous pictures of bear, deer and elk noses and eye-balls.

You can see that this one was trying to smell it but there was a tiny brook in front of the cam .......it got as close as it could before it took the pic and then ran.

I have no doubt some cameras will spook game... Many hear the camera shutter or see the low glow red (I spook less game with white flash and no glow)... I have a spot I got one picture of a coyote and it spooked and never came back to that area... I will at time set up multi cameras in one location and have noticed animals reactions to the flash and sound...

For sure bushnell is one camera I don't get a sound reaction to...

Two different locations where deer were right on the camera with no noticeable reaction:

These are three (3)pictures not the same picture repeated...








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Bears spot them faster than deer but it's very rare when a 30 second video doesn't have the camera getting busted.
I use Browning and Bushnell it doesn't seem to matter.

WS

Most times they are startled due to hearing them, it catches them way off guard so their first instinct is to flee, flashes
also can get them nervous, they catch these through their prehephiel(sp) vision which is much more sensitive to
different wave lengths in light

Bears are attracted to the smell of them, plastics are always out gassing and they smell it from a long distance,
this is why they make a beeline right to them when they scent them, very rarely do they actually see them. But
it makes us think they have seen them.

This was particularly bad when cam's first came out and used film, bears could smell the film and it got them
going for some reason, they would really give the cams a go.

Some spook,most dont. They have been hunti




ng here for a month

I guess my old doe died,,she was here about 7-8 yrs having babies. I never bothered her. She would blow at me every spring when she had babies about 40 yds from the house so I never went in that field or even cut it. She did that for 3 yrs. She had babies last yr and then i suspect died raising triplets. We do have yr round poachers here across the river and also wildlife informed me other day that my other neighbors of a certain faith may be killing many. have seen the population drop near my house....drastically. Thus I dont hunt them. Now I want a black bear!!

from what i've seen on my cameras - some spook, most don't

i assume if they spook, they are already kinda worked up about something and the camera is the last straw.

This is what I've come to believe...and some cameras are quieter.

*not my trail cam picture...but a funny one from the wwweb...

my thoughts too almost to a t....my cams tasco(made by bushnell or vice versa) dont make any shutter noise and no noticable flash but I suspect they feel light intensity even the red glow lights. Same with night calling with red lenses. Its fine if its dim as they get close but they definitely feel the intensity on the eyes with a bright red spot. I always dim it when I see the eyes.


I bought trail cams for 2 reasons only......to see what was coming into my pastures when I cant find sign.......and to watch for cats travelling my river....so far ive never seen tracks. I still believe in scouting with my eyes.

Who cares about deer? They spook fox, too. Sometimes I think our fox are just more nervous then in some regions.

I have not put out a camera in two years. Last we saw more deer. This year we are seeing even more. Many more.