Probably-unwise purchases I’m considering, pt. 2: A trail cam

Update/SPOILER ALERT: I bought one.

I’ve seen photos and videos online that people get from trail cams, and I’ve thought about getting one for a while. They’re always from people in rural areas, though, and we’re suburban.

But we do have a park behind our house. It’s very narrow, maybe twenty yards wide, just a walking path and some other land next to a stream; but there are definitely raccoons, deer, rabbits, foxes around.

It still feels a little silly to get a trail cam to see these animals, though, since they’re not shy and we see them regularly anyway; for example:

Maybe with a trail cam, we’d be able to see deer around our house!

But I’m intrigued by the actions of at least one yard rabbit we have around here. It’s a survivor, because we do have foxes as I mentioned. If it’s just one rabbit we’ve seen, then we saw it first around April, when it was tiny; it was frequently around during the summer; in the autumn we seldom saw it, and we thought maybe a fox had gotten it; but then we saw it twice in November.

But we hadn’t seen it since. So once again, we thought it might have perished . . . BUT then with the snow we got last week, I saw these:

A-ha! I’m pretty sure those are rabbit prints? There are many squirrels around, also, but theirs look different . . . with smaller paws, as you would assume.

So, I want to see what that rabbit, if that’s what it is, is up to at night! So, I ordered a trail cam. It’s about $120; a Garde Pro that has good reviews and seems easy enough to use. Stay tuned for photos.