Gardening intuition
Our trusty
trail camera recorded a
deer intruder early this morning.
Anna's gardening intuition
told her the spot where the fence is mushed down was done by an
escaping deer recently.
We upgraded that section with
an additional post and tightened it up. I had turned the mechanical
deer deterrent off the
other night because I didn't want them to get accustomed to the sound.
Maybe turning it back on tonight will spook our intruder enough to
leave for good.
I wonder if it would be
possible to modify a trail camera to send some sort of message when
these events happen? Then maybe I could wake up in enough time to turn
this intruder into dinner...if of course deer season was in.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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You can get WiFi SD cards, which allow you to download photos from a camera without needing to plug in a cable. Perhaps something like that could be used, along with a computer set up to poll the card for new photos periodically?
Another idea is to get an infrared-triggered switch. Whenever the trail camera takes a photo, it uses an infrared flash. This would trigger the switch, which could ring a bell inside the house or something to alert you.
An infrared sensor alarm would work- If Lucy doesn't stray through the beam at night. Or racoons, or rabbits, or possums, or anything large enough to trigger the chime. Depending on local wildlife and sensitivity settings, you might get alarms every few minutes or never.
You might consider a solar sensor light. It would have the added benefit of letting you see the intruder... BTW Have you ever seen the Backyard Bowyer's PVC pipe crossbow tutorial on youtube?.....