I've been struggling with depression lately. Thank you for posting this. It helps

@WatershedWildlife

2 жыл бұрын

Depression is debilitating & can happen to anyone. I wish you the best. I have a lot of videos on my channel but another viewer commented how much the one at the following link actually helped her: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m46Yp9GMmZq7prQ.html

@colleenross8752

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you feel better

Skunks have such beautiful tails! The racoon grabbing hold of the other raccoons tail was funny! Also loved the twin deer.

I just love this stuff!!!!

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

It's a lot of fun to recover the SD cards to see what's happened when no one's around.

This is so peaceful and calming amidst the 22 inches of snow outside.

Love to watch the mink!

It’s great to see these animals free to get on with there lives.

So, a skunk walks through and it's nearly 8 hours before anybody else uses the same path lol. Really enjoyed the video.

Loving these videos. So many different animals we don't see down here in Australia.....

@WatershedWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to have you visit! Come again.

lol ..that raccoon biting the tail of the other ....thumbs up !!!

Thanks for cutting out all the dead time. Great video!

Raccoons are hilarious! The one biting the others tail.. I laughed

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Probably brothers!

@Bdf3604

4 жыл бұрын

Watershed Wildlife probably.. and the younger is the one doing the biting

Great video,thanks for sharing

Thank You for sharing!

Lots of good reasons not to drink the water. Love the wildlife. Thank you.

I loved your video.Thank you for sharing.

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

i love it. more more

So cool!

thank you !

Awesome

All the animals look healthy. Good work

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Wish I could take credit for their health. I do sadly see the occasional walking wounded.

@raysarchet8463

4 жыл бұрын

Sportsmen take a lot of crap from the Left. We love and support wildlife first and foremost!

Don't Hunt and kill, watch and admire. 😀

@highcee0242

2 жыл бұрын

You can't eat photos

@ac8907

2 жыл бұрын

highcee024. You need to Hunt for food nowa days ?

@crustyychris8904

2 жыл бұрын

Well some people like hunting my uncle was a great hunter and didn’t disrespect anything he caught it killed in any way.

@ac8907

2 жыл бұрын

ChrispyChilris. Well, hunting or killing should not be A pleasure for me. Even animals....... We Have to respect Nature.

AWESOME!

@WatershedWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! You can find more on my KZread channel at watershedwildlife.

Very good vídeo, very good job 🤗👍

How do you set up your cam so you don't capture a million shots of ripples on the water surface? I have one next to a river and I get a bunch of "wave" shots LOL

@WatershedWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

I think the ripples in the little creeks I visit are small enough that it isn't a problem. Also there is shade on the water much of the time. I get more false detections from blowing plants on windy days than anything else.

@SlayermikeFishingandMORE

3 жыл бұрын

@@WatershedWildlife mine was next to a big river I just bought a better camera that I can see the angle on my phone so setting it up is easier so it's not pointing directly at the water as much but the plants waving in the wind is like you said thanks for answering me back

Very cool footage I do a lot of trail cams and haven’t had as good luck on brooks awesome!

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! If you can find an area with two distinctly different habitat types adjacent to each other (like high & dry bordering on low and wet) there is often a lot of activity. Good luck.

very cool

Fantastic video lots of different animals, am assuming that was same mink? Do people still trap them for there fur? Hope not but..... cute little mink ♥️

@WatershedWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

Mink is a great addition to the diversity. With the right permits you can trap about anything in Michigan. It's a throw-back to 1900 when most native species including Bald Eagles were considered varmints.

@LisaCarso

3 жыл бұрын

@@WatershedWildlife so sad that we humans have evolved so little despite all we know now about other sentient beings and how they suffer

If the deer can spot the camera, we have no chance at all to capture footage of Bigfoot.

So interesting

Fun watching that. I've lived in Michigan for all my 71 years ... can I ask in what county this video was taken?

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

It can vary but Muskegon River & White River watersheds mostly.

@slrs3908

4 жыл бұрын

@@WatershedWildlife I live in Whitehall. I wonder if that is why I am being shown this one. Loved it BTW. Looks like any small woodsy creek in MI.

what camera did you use for this? I'm interested in doing this in my backyard creek as well. Nice vid

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

A Browning full HD camera. My model is discontinued but a lot of new choices now.

@stevedowney4056

3 жыл бұрын

Watershed Wildlife Bad thing now most of them are going to the cellular trail cameras. I have 14 trail cameras that’s way too much money for me to be spending for pictures. My niece got it for her husband to get unlimited pictures it’s $300 a year per camera

@hachitavidal5493

3 жыл бұрын

@@WatershedWildlife thank you gonna do this at my creek

Not once did I think raccoons hunt or travel in groups, I always thought of them as solitary animals as you always see them lurking in the night alone.

@WatershedWildlife

2 жыл бұрын

Very often family groups (mom & kits) that eventually break up and start over in the spring. Here's a family group in early summer at about 2:30 in the vid. kzread.info/dash/bejne/f2aZxclqdtvSe6w.html

Hi from Australia. Except for the animals looks just like any creek here in Victoria Australia. What are the raccoons looking for?Cheers.

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers to Australia! They are mostly looking for small invertebrates or larval forms of most anything in the water. I'm sure they wouldn't mind a crustacean if they found one.

@Forevertrue

4 жыл бұрын

Crawdads ( cray fish), mollusks, small fish.

Is this upper peninsula or south? Which county?

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Western, lower. The land of trolls.

@outdoorslifesurvivecraft5078

3 жыл бұрын

@@WatershedWildlife So this is in the Mesick area?

Very nice creek wondering what area of Michigan I live in upper michigan

@WatershedWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

The creeks are in Western Michigan away from population centers. I lived in the UP for a couple of years. Crazy winters!

@LisaCarso

3 жыл бұрын

@@WatershedWildlife is the creek any where near Kalkaska? That's where my grandmother (whose family hails from the UP) had a summer house and we used to spend all our summers June to September there. I remember the crystal clear creeks and streams. We even took water bottles to fill 'em up. But that was back in the 60s and 70s. I hope some are still just as pristine but I fear that agricultural run-off may have polluted many.

Is that a pine marten or an otter???

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

It is a mink.

@jtrose6995

4 жыл бұрын

Watershed Wildlife wow! Ive never seen a mink, awesome! Thank you! In my 50s, 👋 from north california

What kind of trail camera is this

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

"Browning recon force extreme" for the video & audio quality.

@BushcraftNick

4 жыл бұрын

Watershed Wildlife I’m replacing my old cameras and I’m looking into the browning strike force. Is it any good

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

@@BushcraftNick I'm sure they're good but they wouldn't work for what I do & the model numbers have all changed since I got mine. I haven't tried the 9v Strike Force but I can tell you the minimum I'd look for if I had to replace one of mine: Full HD video (1920x1080), 12v external socket (ie. 8 AA's, not 6) and a color view screen. Those specs leave only a couple choices for me for a Browning.

@BushcraftNick

4 жыл бұрын

Watershed Wildlife ok thanks for the help

13 dislikes?! wth? weirdos

@Forevertrue

4 жыл бұрын

irreligious libertines

What town is this near?

@donabeyta252

4 жыл бұрын

NEWARK NJ.

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

A variety of towns. I'll have to say West Michigan within about 15 miles of Lake Michigan. Usually private property with the understanding that I won't reveal individual locations.

@robjames3864

4 жыл бұрын

I was just curious. No problem. I'm a lifetime Michigander who's spent alot of time roaming all over Michigan.

Don't Bite!

There must be a small dot of light on the camera attracting the eye of the deer. They took notice of it, made them cautiously curious.

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

It's actually a fairly large glow. The IR illumination turns on so the camera can see. They see a glow at the camera but like us they don't see the illumination.

@geraldbostock9858

4 жыл бұрын

For some reason deer will often look right into a trail cam, even when it's well hidden. The seem to just know its there.

@russelllangworthy8855

4 жыл бұрын

@@geraldbostock9858 There's a very faint sound the camera makes as it's taking pictures. We can barely hear it, but a deer, having much better hearing than us, pick it up easily.

Never having used a trail cam kzread.infoUgkx2sTDdZXomuxedMg_HothfjSXjR3rpPkA before, I was very impressed with the quality of the images and videos. The sensitivity of the camera can be adjusted as well as the length of video recordings. Once I found the sweet spot, I was getting great clips of deer and other animals almost every day. I was worried about battery life but have been running off the same 4 aa batteries for over a month. The SD card is easy to remove and connect to a computer. I have a Mac, and the AVI files open natively in QuickTime and are easy to save and share. This is a great, budget-friendly trail cam.

@WatershedWildlife

10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

What camera do you use?

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

I use three Browning "Recon Force Extreme" cameras. I've used Proofcam, Stealthcam, Adventuridge but the Browning is by far the best for video quality and audio sensitivity.

Nice vedio

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I’m holding out that Bigfoot will be caught on camera one day

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Black bear and otter are on my list but even if it's just a tall turkey hunter in a ghillie suit, you'll see it here.

@bulldog7196

4 жыл бұрын

He’ll be blurry.

@owenpierson5881

4 жыл бұрын

Watershed Wildlife black bear in south western Michigan ? What area?

Detroit?

@22Bruinsdude

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

Camera cost please and company

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

~$170 Browning. New models avail.

Did someone else also did not see only deer at 2:07

@dubbled7286

4 жыл бұрын

Just another deer 🦌

I just bought a camera not only to track wildlife but we also see people who cross my dam on trucks, which is illegal

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Dam illegal!

@scottcantdance804

3 жыл бұрын

You... own a dam?

@enderlynxwilloze7935

3 жыл бұрын

ScottCantDance yeah the property my family bought has about 4 or 5 more neighbors that collectively own the dam. There is a small forest behind the lake which has a big creek with lots of cool fish tho!

I am from Costa Rica! Is Michigan beautiful?

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

We don't have as much colorful bird life and the cold winters limit the variety of things that crawl. We have very colorful autumns and the snow can be very pretty. We also have large areas of remote woods and a west coast and an east coast with beaches. So yes but different.

@lisawillis8227

4 жыл бұрын

Very beautiful. Cold winters, true, but very beautiful.

@nickbrooks7171

4 жыл бұрын

Lisa Willis wow thanks

@drakedrones

4 жыл бұрын

It’s Beautiful. Winters get cold, but summers and falls are very nice.

@everythingoutdoors4079

4 жыл бұрын

Michigan is like no other place. I own riverfront property in northern michigan. Check out my videos!

why do skunks have such long fluffy tails? i'm sure there is a story behind it, somewhere.

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

I've never been told but I'd guess it's a fair warning to keep animals at a distance. Once sprayed, a predictor would likely see the big vertical tail as a warning flag and avoid considering the skunk as a potential meal again. Good for both parties.

@Forevertrue

4 жыл бұрын

Once they treat you ( as and animal) you never forget that flag. They wave it around threatening.

@danw6014

4 жыл бұрын

@@WatershedWildlife it didn't seem to faze my dog. I have a wire fox terrier. One day I found her flipping a skunk in the air by its tail. The skunk must have missed or ran out of ammo because my wire didn't smell at all.

Any wolves in Michigan, here in New Hampshire we don’t have wolves but we get some huge coyotes that people say are crossed with wolf . Coywolfs.

@geraldbostock9858

4 жыл бұрын

Wolves are almost a nuisance in the UP depending on who you ask. They are definitely an apex predator and their effect on deer population is noticeable.

@danw6014

4 жыл бұрын

I hope they don't get into the lower Peninsula. We will be out of the sheep business for sure.

@bradparker7069

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve lived my entire 62 year in Michigan. To answer (to the best of my ability) some of your questions about wolves, I had 160 acres of prime deer hunting property in the north western part of Michigan’s upper peninsula, between Bergland and Ewen that when I purchased it around 1985 it wasn’t uncommon to lose count of the deer you would see on the trip from camp to town, approximately 7 miles. Most of the property was the last cut of hay

@bradparker7069

4 жыл бұрын

So it was easy to see the deer. By the time I sold the property in 2015 you were lucky if you saw 5 deer the entire 2 weeks we’d spend up north during deer season. But you’d see wolves all day every day if you took the time and looked. I finally gave up deer hunting. The wolves even started taking a toll on the black bears.its been 5 years since I’ve been back and it doesn’t sound like things have gotten any better. Most of the guys I used to hunt with are either dead themselves or have moved. There was an old boy who had over 400 head of cattle on the corner of Hokens Rd. And M28 that he tried to make a go at raising in the 20 plus years I had property up there. The wolves put him out of business long before I sold out.Talk about a sickening sound, listen to a pack of wolves take down and kill an adult cow in the middle of the night from a mile or 2 away. Made you sick. After awhile you just got numb to it. Anyway I hope I answered some of the questions people had about wolves in Michigan. The DNR have confirmed wolves have crossed into the lower part of the state based on winter surveys. They’ve crossed the ice from the upper peninsula to the northern part of the lower peninsula. I’m not sure of their survival rates. Anyway it’s my understanding if they’re seen by the locals in the northern part of the lower peninsula they tend to die quickly from lead poisoning! Justifiably so based on what I’ve seen in the north west part of the UP!!!!!! EH!!!!!

@dangersmith1400

4 жыл бұрын

Yea they definitely need to be hunted and controlled. The coywolfs or coyotes dog mixes luckily still go after smaller prey. But they wipe out a lot of animals. I haven’t seen a skunk in years and when I first moved to New England they were everywhere, same with opossum. I can appreciate wolves but glad there not here in New Hampshire.

God's creatures going about their lives

2:57 A gaze of raccoons

@WatershedWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Cool, a new term! Unfortunate that crows got stuck with "murder".

@OBIIIIIIIII

4 жыл бұрын

Watershed Wildlife a group of bats is a cauldron which i think is quite poetic

@parisinthe30sx

4 жыл бұрын

Watershed Wildlife "It was coined "murder" because some doublet clad Englishman wanted to show off his poetical talents by cementing the species bum rap" Most ornithologist refer to a group of birds, any birds, as a flock. Although i do like that the English language has a sense of humour and whimsy. Did you know that a group of otters are called a "romp of otters"?

Good thing rhey didnt poop in the water.

Know where to hunt now, by the waters at night.

Raccoon = 15 pound rat

@paulyarek

4 жыл бұрын

@ That's right they do the same as a 15 pound rat though.

@22Bruinsdude

3 жыл бұрын

Idiot

@toddbennett7157

2 жыл бұрын

Hardly.

Nice marmot.

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