Honest solar trail-cam & birding reviews, real backyard footage, and free printables, from one curious mom and three cameras in the New England woods.
Every product here is mounted in my own yard before it earns a recommendation.
I get asked which SD card to actually buy more than almost any other trail camera question. If you want the full explanation of sizing, speed class,…
Of every animal that wanders through my patch of New Hampshire woods, deer were the ones I most wanted on camera, and the ones that humbled me first.…
My favorite pair of binoculars, hands down, would be Nocs Provisions binoculars. I brough both pairs of my Nocs to a friends lake house last weekend…
Cameras, solar panels, mounts, feeders and the little accessories that actually matter. Updated as I swap gear.
Stories, buyer's guides and what the cameras caught this week.
The first time I set up a trail camera, I genuinely thought it was broken. I hung it on a fence post behind my garden, aimed it at absolutely nothing…
My back yard sounds like an atrium. I was never into birds until my family moved to a small town in New Hampshire with a gorgeous backyard that abuts…
The SD card is the most overlooked part of any trail camera setup. Most people grab whatever’s on sale at the checkout aisle, drop it in, and never…
Checklists and field guides I’ve put together for backyard wildlife watching, download and print at home.
One page, one sighting. I made this after realizing my kids would tell me about something they saw on camera and then completely forget the…
The standalone answer key for both Backyard Safari field games, for anyone who just wants this page on its own instead of finding it buried…
The second field game in my Backyard Safari pack. Instead of footprints, this one’s just shape, the kind of silhouette you’d actually catch…
One of two field games in my Backyard Safari pack, this one made for the kid who’s more interested in what walked through the yard…
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