Midnight Mouse

My back yard and pond attract a lot of interesting wildlife. It’s a challenge to capture all that activity 24/7, so I bought myself a trail camera. With enough battery power to remain on stand-by for many months, this video camera tracks motion in two ways. It uses infrared technology to detect heat signatures while motion-detection software detects changes between two consecutive video frames.

When triggered by motion or heat, even in the dark, it starts shooting silently, keeping the animals unaware. As I set the camera up by my pond around sundown, I wondered if even the tiniest animals would trigger the trail cam. The next morning, I had footage of this tiny field mouse, who so far is the winner for smallest creature captured by the new camera!

(The camera model is: Topvision Wifi Trailcam)