A fun shot of an Eastern pygmy-possum (Cercartetus nanus) on the camera-trap when I checked it today.
Probably the best photo of an EPP that I’ve ever landed.
I was going to describe the shot as “lucky”, but after eighteen months of toughing it out through repeated failures with the camera-trap in roughly the same area, “lucky” doesn’t feel like the right word.
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I've pulled some of my camera-trapping equipment out of the field for cleaning and maintenance, and was amused again at the way the swamp-wallabies grind their teeth on the plastic knobs on some of the bolts. Some of them are almost chewed right through.
Does that behaviour mean that wallaby teeth grow continuously throughout their life, like rodents?
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After literally months of technical glitches and uncooperative wildlife, I have finally landed a not-too-awful shot of an eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus) on the camera-trap, captured here in the hollow inside an old burnt-out gum tree - a difficult setting to light.
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And here’s video off the trail-camera I had monitoring the camera-trap set-up, showing the pygmy possum shooting past and triggering the camera.
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Two photos off the camera-trap that I brought in from the forest yesterday, showing an Eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus). Unfortunately in the shot where it’s in focus, the animal has its back to us, and where it’s looking at the camera, it’s just beyond the zone of sharp focus.
If you can’t cope with things going wrong, you’re not suited to camera-trapping…
Just in case you thought I was exaggerating about the spider webs!
This is the wireless motion-detector that triggers the camera.
And last photo for tonight - a brown antechinus (Antechinus lathami) - photographed at night using a camera-trap on Sydney’s northern fringes.
I believe it’s antechinus breeding season right now, and I’m desperately hoping to capture an image of a mother with babies on her back in the next couple of weeks.
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