The camera is mounted to the large limb of this tree. In order to protect it somewhat from the weather, a “birdhouse” structure has been positioned over the camera.
On the fourth day of my initial experimenting, the creek water rose to within a foot of the camera. Unfortunately, because of an error in setting the intervalometer, the remote camera yielded no pictures of these floodwaters!
6 August 2011
7 August 2011
19 August 2011
16 September 2011
19 September 2011
4 October 2011
7 October 2011
10 October 2011
21 October 2011
4 November 2011. Notice the Great Blue Heron in the shallow water on the left.
23 November 2011
25 November 2011
5 December 2011, 12:58 pm. After rain that began the day before, the water level begins to rise.
5 December 2011, 4:28 pm. Moisture condenses on the camera lens, creating a “blurry image”. Creek level continues to rise. The weather service predicts only another 1-2 foot raise in the water level.
5 December 2011, 11:28 pm – middle of the night. This is the last image taken by the remote camera. The next image should have been taken in three-and-a-half hours, but apparently the floodwaters had submerged the camera by then. The water rose almost four feet that night.
After the floodwaters receded in a couple of days, the remote camera was retrieved. Note the mud atop the camera. Notice that water was inside the lens. (Click on the photo for an enlarged image.) The zoom lens actually had muddy water strata layers on the inside lens elements. The CF Card was still frozen inside the camera when it was retrieved; once thawed and dried, the digital files were all recovered from the card.
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