Trail Cam Pictures ... 7.24.09

Steve and Neighbor Mike went up to KY leases Friday and hung stands and swapped out cards on the trail cameras. They got some really good shots. We spent most of Friday night downloading them. Then Steve spent Saturday morning/mid-day deleting the bad ones. We usually get a lot of the same deer and LOTS of racoons. We also have black birds and nothing shots. Anyways, its really fun to see what you've got on them. After we download them and weed out the bad ones, we put them in Picasa (cause it's the GREATest), so we can view them full screen. I noticed a few things when I did this that we didn't know about. Also love on Picasa that you can add text. Makes keeping up with our different deer a little easier.

I'll point them out:

When this pictures was full screen I noticed the deer in the back. You can't really see it too well, but it's there and what's weird is that in the next shot it's in the picture and the Skinny 8 has already passed. This camera is set up on a trail and guess who's stand it on it? MINE! and its only a 12 yrd shot! I'm pretty deadly from 10 - 18/20 yards, so I should do good on this. Steve was happy to get these shots because it just shows that the deer really use it, since there was no corn down at all to attract them.

We all know that I'm a turkey junkie, so to see this moma BEARDED turkey with poults is pretty cool. This turkey is legal to shot because she is bearded, but really... why? Other than it's really cool to see a bearded hen. We have one that lives around us and I've seen her in the fields, but never while hunting.

This is Tall-Wide 8 .... he's got a very nice rack, even if it's only an 8. He'll be a good deer next year for sure if nobody gets him this year.

More turkeys .... TOMS and JAKES! This is Paint Brush Tom ... looooook at that beard. KILLER! I have to say, if I even see a turkey during bow season, I'm game to try and shoot one, especially this honking huge bearded TOM!

This is Kicker 10. We see him a lot at this spot. Sometimes alone, sometimes with a male friend and sometime with a lady friend. We also discovered while viewing this full screen, that he has 10 fully developed points and one "kicker" that comes off his left side browtine... pretty cool. Here's another picture of him.

So, I won't get to use the leases much .... but it's fun to see what's up there and we've still haven't found the deer that made the freakly huge tracks in the blog entry below.... still waiting on that one.

Steve had me shotting today out of the stand. Getting more comfortable being up there on that little platform. Hope I get a shot of at least a nice doe this season! We need some meat in our freezer!

Thats all for now. Blog ya later!

New pictures from last year

Last weekend, I borrowed mom's iBook and took it to KY. We wanted to download trail cam pictures on Steve's leases to it so we could leave the memory cards (that didn't work - another story or another time). But while I was pulling some pictures off Neighbor Mikes' card, I found some pictures we made at the beach last year. I barely remember taking them and they turned out really good. All of me and Emilee. We think Steve was playing golf and Mom, Emilee, Nana and Grandaddy were waiting for him to get home. Mom took these......

As mentioned above, we visited Steve's leases in KY. I know, doesn't sound real exciting, but it wasn't bad. I wanted to go since I had never been. Plus out of the 3 adults, I am the only one with any "computer" abilities. My job was to download the memory cards off the trail cam. BUT, I discovered on the way up trying to clean off one of Neighbor Mike's cards that my card reader won't read a 4gbHC card. So much for using it - good thing he had another 256 that I could clean off for him. They had two camera's already out. One with a 2gb and the other with a 4.... and you guess it, 4gbHC card. SO, I couldn't download Steve's card... the one with over 1700 wildlife pictures on it. We did stop at a Walmart to buy two more cards and I talked them into 2 gb cards, so we wouldn't have any problems. But, it really doesn't matter, because to get those 1700 pictures off the card (with no camera - because we replaced the card and left the camera strapped on the tree) we had to buy another card reader. NO problem though because it reads HC and non HC cards. BUT it doesn't read mom's compact flash card... bummer!

While visiting the lease with the camera's we saw a momma deer and a little fawn. It was toooooo sweet! When we left that lease, we visited Steve's other lease. Check out what we saw there ....

a freaking HUGE deer track. I actually asked Steve if he was sure it was a deer track. Needless to say, today he is in KY on this lease, checking for more FREAKING huge tracks. They don't have cell service where they are, so I'm not sure he's found anything... but they are putting out another camera in the location so we can watch for him!!!

What about Steve McNair? RIP! I saw him once at Goodpasture. He was a pretty big fellow. He was getting in his car and I was parked behind him. I really wish now I had stopped and either taken a picture or at least gotten his autograph, but I always hate bothering folk like that. I mean, doesn't Nashville pride itself on leaving our Celebs alone? No I wish I had! It's really a very sad situation. Nobody deserves that ... and neither does/did his wife. I'm sure she's a basket case right now. I didn't realize till just Wednesday that I know the guy that found him, Wayne. I use to buy all kinds of stuff from him at the sporting goods store across the street from work. I was actually in there about 3 weeks ago buying Steve a pair of weight lifting gloves to use when he cuts. Poor Wayne for finding his friend like that. I'm sure it will haunt him the rest of his life!

Emilee is at cheer camp .... this is her first camp experience and they are staying in dorms at TTU! Today has been a better day than yesterday .... and I think she'll be so tired tonight that she won't even remember our names. We go pick her up tomorrow. I miss her, but I think this is really good for her to learn to be more independent. Good for both of us I guess! :-)

Gotta run! Check ya later!