The new Christmas Ring camera for wildlife.

[SteveSS]

My daughter has been helping me since I'm no cell phone app wizard. She's messed with the sensitivity so the Magpies and Stellar Jays don't set it off but the animals do. So far, for the last couple of nights, a fox, two coyotes (one with a hurt front paw, hopping on three legs) some raccoons, and a house cat. The nice thing, as compared to my old wildlife cam, is now it makes movies with sound. My phone alerts me when we have a visitor.

I usually let the decorative pond and waterfall go dry in the winter, but the climate has been so dry, the animals and birds have been drinking from the disgusting puddle at the bottom. I filled it to about 1/3rd full.

Anyone else using a Ring for wildlife?

 

[SteveSS]

An interesting thing about recording sound on the Ring is birds, really cussing out the deer, squirrels, or other animals when they appear. It's a cacophony of birds scolding them. They think they own the backyard. One Magpie swooped in on a rabbit, scaring it off.

 

[SteveSS]

Let's hope I don't draw in Mountain Lions. You might have heard of the lady out hiking alone in Colorado that was killed by one or two lions yesterday. Normally, they stay on the west side of I-25, about 2 miles away. but we have had them in our neighborhood in the past.

Woman killed in suspected mountain lion attack in Colorado​

A woman found dead on a hiking trail in Colorado was killed in a suspected mountain lion attack, the state's first fatal attack since 1999, authorities said.

The woman was discovered on Jan. 1 when two hikers came upon a mountain lion lying partially over her body on the Larimer County hiking trail, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said.

The death is considered a suspected mountain lion attack pending a report by the coroner's office, agency spokesperson Kara Van Hoose told the Coloradoan, part of the USA TODAY Network.

Van Hoose said the suspected attack happened at about 12:15 p.m. on the Crosier Mountain Trail, just south of Glen Haven. The trail is about 70 miles northwest of Denver.

Two men, one a physician, saw the mountain lion lying over the woman from about 100 yards away, Van Hoose said. They threw rocks at the animal as they approached and the mountain lion was scared away.

"It was acting protecitvely over the person when the two men saw it," Van Hoose said.