photos/CathiesCabinTrailCam/

By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun May 17 19:15:30 MDT 2026)

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These are collected photos worth keeping from the Campark T-80 battery-operated trail camera (not a webcam) that I installed Feb 1, 2021 at Cathie's mountain cabin (10,100' in the north end of South Park, Colorado). (But not posting 5-sec videos I started adding later.) I also installed a cheap ($30) Tasco trailcam in 2026, facing a different way, and you can tell them apart by the labels on the images.

In 2026 I decided to revise and group the photos by category, then by date, to make the growing mass of them easier to skim by type of interest; also for me to identify and delete duplicates of no extra interest. I realized that nearly every image (trigger) resulted from one particular type of animal or other event. (Never mind hundreds of "false triggers" without any noticeable cause, that I mostly deleted unless they were otherwise of interest.)

After initial experimenting, I leave the cameras off while we are there to avoid many spurious photos/videos -- including, as I quickly learned, hundreds of IR-triggered pictures of campfire heat! So these are pictures downloaded during each visit, taken between visits.

After a few months of more false than good triggers, I reset the sensitivity setting from the default of medium to low, and that reduced the triggers a lot. No idea what we're missing, of course.

See N_Statistics\ for a summary of animals spotted.

Subdirectories/folders (number of images / total Kb):

  1. A_Deer (12/3535)
  2. B_Elk (35/13815)
  3. C_Moose (11/1440)
  4. D_Coyotes (3/2056)
  5. E_Foxes (5/806)
  6. F_Rabbits (4/738)
  7. G_Bobcats (9/2555)
  8. H_Bears (3/345)
  9. I_Raccoons (1/357)
  10. J_Birds (12/4155)
  11. K_People (15/6284)
  12. L_Snow (22/4030)
  13. M_Other (3/1993)
  14. N_Statistics (0/0)