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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n8CUeNKEzp25poU.html

Hope you feel better

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

Happy to have you visit! Come again.

You can't eat photos

highcee024. You need to Hunt for food nowa days ?

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

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

Probably brothers!

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

Thanks for watching!

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.

@@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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

@@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.

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

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

@@WatershedWildlife thank you gonna do this at my creek

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.

Crawdads ( cray fish), mollusks, small fish.

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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5iVlspiq97Qe30.html

Thank you.

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.

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.

@@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.

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

@@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.

Western, lower. The land of trolls.

@@WatershedWildlife So this is in the Mesick area?

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

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

@@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.

Watershed Wildlife ok thanks for the help

It is a mink.

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

Just another deer 🦌

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.

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

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

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!!!!!

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.

NEWARK NJ.

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.

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

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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.

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

@@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.

~$170 Browning. New models avail.

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.

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.

He’ll be blurry.

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

Dam illegal!

You... own a dam?

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!

Thank you very much!

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.

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

Lisa Willis wow thanks

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

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

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

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

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"?

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

Idiot

Hardly.