Camera Trap Results

I retrieved the photos from the camera traps after the first three days of trapping, and I have to say the results are encouraging.

First, only one camera of the eight was too crooked to capture what it needed to. It was tilted such that it was aimed too high, which I discovered when I downloaded a lot of photos of animals' backs and this photo:


Very entertaining, but I really need to be able to photograph animals without them having to stand on their tippy toes. I returned to this camera and lowered it, so hopefully that helps.

Second, I got a wide variety of species: 11 in only three days at 8 cameras. I of course got tommies as well as loads of zebra,

impala,
and warthog.
Rarer captures included giraffe,
Grant's gazelles,
and spotted hyenas (which thankfully did not try to snack on the cameras - a concern even despite the steel casing).
I also got one shot each of cheetah,
white-tailed mongoose,
and a super cool striped hyena, which tends to be a very elusive creature.

In addition to all the wild species, I got more than my share of photos of cattle and sheep. Even some curious cattle herders made an appearance:

Despite all the attention, no cameras were knocked over, mauled, stolen, or otherwise tampered with, which is very encouraging. Tomorrow I will put the remaining two traps out, move a couple around, and hopefully collect some more cool photos to share with you!