We have an old trail camera that was donated (thank you, Rod!). It’s no longer good enough for videos, but in July last year we put it to use high on a tree taking timed photos – one every 2 hours – and left it for a year. That’s about 4400 photos. The idea was to use them to make a video of the year passing quickly.

Surprisingly, the batteries held out and I’ve produced a short video from a selection of two daylight photos per day. The variable lighting conditions from day to day make it flicker a lot, and the tree turned out not to be quite as rigid a mount as one might have supposed. Still, it gives you a feeling for the changes throughout the seasons.

The camera position was above one of the cleared and replanted areas, and you can see the guards of the new plantings appear and disappear again as the bracket overwhelms them.

The camera turned out to have date bug, such that the date/time reset itself every 120 days and so the timestamp on the recording is meaningless after 13 Nov 2024.  Not that it’s important, just confusing if you can see it.

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