Outdoor cameras

My husband and I recently bought one of those infrared outdoor motion cameras.  It takes a picture every several minutes and records the date and time.  It works without any noticable flash, both daytime and nighttime.  We had some construction done recently.   No on knew we were there until then  and all of a sudden we have had thing stolen.   We wanted to see who was driving up our remote driveway and stealing stuff from us.  Plus, we have bears and other wild life that we want to photo.  It is the Covert II and is camo. 

Have any of you had this camera?    We are mostly weekenders....We tend to take it home with us every weekend because we are afraid  it will be stolen from the tree we strap it to, which defeates the original purpose.  We could strap it to a tree and have the heavy duty' 'box' to mount it in, but the box is something that is quite noticble   We are asking for any suggestions on how and where to mount it to have it unseen from the people we are trying to catch.  It was expensive.

We would love to see the photos of the creatures up there, but don't want to lose our camera.  We need to have it a conveneient positiion, yet  not be obvious to trespassers and  easy to steal

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Thanks

I have a game camera too.  Fortunately I don't have a theft problem.  At least not just yet.

There are various aftermarket devices that are used to make these cameras theft (and bear) resistant.

Here's a link to my favorite outdoor sports website.  The device isn't cheap - but if your camera is expensive it might be worth the investment.

Good luck.

I'm new here and hope to post more in the future.  Maybe even some wildlife pictures.

Hey Swamp Gas! Good to see you here!

Aww-shucks, Jeanne...

You know me.

I'm just like that bad dog that done run-off and returned with his tail between his legs...

Too funny!

    You can place a wildlife camera to do double duty catching wild life and low lifes, but you need to be crafty in placement. Some people place one inside their window facing out onto the property to get an idea of the levels of activity when they are not there - I would NOT post a sign saying the place is under camera watch. Sometimes neighbors simply like to look and would never take. I would prefer to have a neighbor with my phone number at home take an occasional stoll around my place and keep an eye on things, than to feel unwelcome.  You may wish to establish such a relationship with a year round neighbor. Our place is close enough to the road for concern and our year round neighbor walks her dog around regularly circling my cabin and bunk house. I repay them with boxed candy, holiday treats and fresh fruits. The non-flash, infrared models would be best for not advertising your intentions of monitoring your place. 

    I had a trail camera out for wildlife and it was too close to the property line and, of course, I had photo sets of passing hunters peering into the camera ~ funny, yes and no. Luckily, they did not steal my set-up, but it did give me an idea of how much hunting pressure runs our property borders.

We had a camera too and enjoyed pictures of deer and an occasional neighbor and dog.  But it disappeared.  We had it strapped to a tree on a remote corner of our property.  We found the strap in the woods but the camera was gone.

A hard lesson learned by my husband and I, bolt them down or they will disappear.

Someone didn't want their picture taken.