A Great Blue Heron made a cameo appearance on the trailcam.

#Birds #Trailcam #15SecondsOfFame #WoodedStream

@danmccullough

That’s great! Is that from your new trailcam?

@donray No, this is one of the old cameras. I’m not going to risk having the new one hovering over the water. Yet. 😆
@danmccullough @donray
tell me (again, sorry) what cams you like?
And thanks for heron video, sending it to my SIL!
@mtechman @donray I’m not a fan of any of them, really. 🤣 They all seem to have some issue, but I find the GardePro series to be the most reliable of the ones I’ve tried!
@danmccullough @donray
Thx so much! I'm really overdue getting one. In your opinion, can these work for security cams? I know that's a whole other set of privacy etc issues (maybe not for most people, sigh).

@mtechman They would work, though for security they might not be the best option. If someone was caught doing something they shouldn’t and they saw the cam all they would need to do would be open it and remove the memory card. Or take the camera and you’d have no recording of it. There are cams with wifi/cell that could send recordings back to you as they happen but I don’t know much about those.

Of course, just having a cam out, regardless of how it works could have an effect!

@danmccullough
Perhaps it's just me, but I think this is an okay heron, not a great one.
@Guillotine_Jones Yes, and I think we need to call its blueness into question as well.