Drone, Trailcams and Chores

In previous posts I explained how I crashed my new drone.  It came back from the factory this week - repaired at no charge.  No explanation.  I'll take it.

Saturday was a beautiful day so I decided to give it a try again.  It flew well.

 On the first battery, I took some photos.  Later I took some video.  I'll post the videos at the end of this post.

 Heading down the ridge trail looking back at the barn.

 Now rotated looking down the trail.

 The neighbor's place down in the valley,

As it was getting close to sundown, I flew over all the fields to see if I could catch a deer out there.  I didn't.

 The props make some noise.

 The plot to the right of the pines will be my native grass planting.

Across the driveway.

Up from behind the barn.

 Getting near sunset.  Check out the videos for the whole tour.

 Another mouse to greet us.  I put the last one in front of a camera.  It is gone but there was no photo of who took it.  I'll try again.

 Poop of the week was by the new camera position out in the front of the property.

 This was the only action on it for two weeks.

 I decided to move it.

 New position near barn stand.

 I found my third deer carcass of the season.

 Another buck - this one quite young.  No arrow so maybe a gun season casualty?

 Interesting stump on my walk.

 This hanging stand is about 30 yards from my property line.  Maybe this has something to do with the carcasses.

 I'm guessing that this is a yardage marker from that stand.

 Pileated woodpeckers I think.

 They really tunnel in there.

 Not sure if you can see this deer trail climbing the hill from the creek crossing.

I did some more hinge cutting and crop tree release in the vicinity of this ladder stand.

 Got the Bobcat out to just give it a good run.

 Sunday sunrise.

 Surprising to see nice bucks like this that haven't shed their antlers yet.

 I look forward to seeing him next year.

 There were several around.

And a couple nice gobblers.

 But the big flocks weren't on camera this week.

Coyotes passing thru.

 Possum.

Some does hanging around (or at least antlerless).

 Wonder what they were fighting about.

 I've always heard that their hair was such a good insulator that snow doesn't melt on their back.

Four of them.

 Curious.

This walk was a couple weeks ago.  It was cold that day.

I put out a little cracked corn this week.  We'll see who shows up next time.  The videos below are just drone tours of the property from various angles.