Chicago Wildlife Watch Talk
CWW researchers said there's a major trash dump in the background. Old TVs, the whole mess...
I think it's a domestic cat - probably feral, but no way to know. Blur on left may be a kitten? See ACH000gnnh
Colorful fox squirrel
Half rest
Mob of raccoons!
Oooo!!
No, there's something pink on the ground - see ACH000gvfo
Teaching moment
Just found out these pics go waaay back! These animals are definitely playing! ACH000cg6z
Look at the entire sequence starting with ACH000cg70. If pics are sequential, these two seem to tolerate each other pretty well.
Wanna play possum?
The young raccoon and opossum seem to enjoy each other's company! See ACH000cg70 through ACH000cg79 and ACH000cg7b. Play behavior?
Spot the #rabbit? Tricky!
Hmm, pic didn't appear and can't delete from "recents"
One kit isn't going with the program.
twin #fawns
Cool! Mom seems to be modeling avoidance behavior. Opossums have sharp teeth!
Very alert #red_fox
#chipmunk
#rat
This is a tough one due to bad color - two animals on right - dogs?
Never noticed it looks like a cat! It's in all the pics - it's a scar on the tree.
#coyote family or pack
How does a raccoon get through a fence? Over, under, or through? How about all three ways!
Guessed #cat. Hindquarters don't look like raccoon.
No. Must be my lack of imagination. I see something white like a clump of snow on sticks.
No, I think it's something hanging from the tree. It's in all the pics.
lovely #fawn
Coyote expressing an opinion regarding the scent bag
A muskrat rear end and tail fits the colors & texture, but it doesn't seem to be in contact with the ground
Black #rat or mouse on the log - had to invert the color to see it.
Ribs showing and all that green grass in the background?
#melanistic_squirrel
#northern_flicker
Beautiful #fawn
oppossum #pair
Female cardinal
Northern flicker among the leaves
It's well camouflaged but pretty obvious once you spot it.
I'd say deer by how slender the leg is.
Maybe a bird tail, but hard to tell.
Havahart trap, yes. Doesn't scare the bunnies at all. Whoever built these beds has given up.
Scrawny. Maybe malnourished?
Could be but isn't 😃. Here's a daytime pic. ACH000c1m9 BTW - hundreds of this camera with same night shot- save us time and purge them?
I think it's just a log. In 2 years of pics, never seen a critter at this site.
OK, but it's looking left, that's a good sign.
No, to check on classifier accuracy say the scientists
Gorgeous daytime #coyote
#owl !!
Eyes in the background - more coyotes, or deer?
3 coyote pups
I think it's a bird-shaped piece of bark or something.
Nocturnal bird or just up past its bedtime?
Coyote is sure there's prey down there.
After stealing the scent bag, #coyote puts his own scent in its place. Win!
Gorgeous buck. Guessing a second deer in the background.
Deer ear closeup
Whose glowing eyes are these? Even at max magnification, can't spot the animal.
Raccoon on the right, but what are the two white critters on the left? Opossums?
Common as dirt, as we say here. Fly around in huge flocks.
No, just ice crystals in the snow
Danger of reading other folks comments - not an owl but an odd piece of vegetation - see ACH0007bj6. I was convinced 😃
No, it's a tree root
Opossum. They aren't usually seen in daytime - maybe this one has insomnia.
Could be, or maybe a cat. I see a thin tail toward the tree, but it isn't bare like an opossum.
Ball'o fur. I guess it's a raccoon with it's head buried under the grass?
A scent bag theft in progress
Rabbit! For some reason this camera took hundreds of pics of it.
Awww...little critter in a tree! Cute! Mouse or baby opossum?
Love Inverted Color in the High Contrast Chrome plug-in! Never would have spotted the bird w/o it!
Definitely a bird! Red crest and tail.
Oh,sorry. CA is where I live, so excusable mistake, I hope 😃
Black ones are tri-colored blackbirds, brown maybe juveniles of same, but not sure. My bird knowledge stops at LBBs (little brown birds)
Beautiful #foxsquirrel
OK, I got up here, now how do I get down again?
Gray squirrel with a red body? Fox squirrel with a gray tail? Hybrid?
Oh, OK 😃 Thought it was a ball or something.
Otherwise, those interesting pics get buried in the "recents" page.
Hey, radio buttons are the way to mark animals. Save the hashtags for rare/interesting pics so we can all see the responses.
Something pink in its mouth. Trash?
northern flicker
wood duck. Better view here: ACH000cavo
Such a long tail!
Red fox 0-o
The most boring camera finally scores a hit - coyote lurking behind the fence.
TV cartoon character from 1950s/1960s. Obviously still in pop culture, since I don't think DZM is that old! 😃
Beaver?! Or muskrat?
Faint animal to right of tree - visible with image lightening. I said coyote, but not sure.
Just mark them "nothing there". With hundreds of cameras, some will malfunction.
Rabbit in a field of flowers - nice!
Should we ignore those people in classifying?
Love the lake in the background, but most pics will not be fully classified, due to many humans at shoreline
white opossum on white snow!
Not sure what's to the left of the tree. Raccoon?
Camera strap
Yes, but the disease evolved to be less deadly as it moved westward across the U.S. Populations of crows are recovering.
Randomization broken or not done for a new season? Seeing long sequences of pics from same camera, like 6 in a row.
Raccoon - can see a bit of the striped tail
coyote puppy meets scent bag
Perfect! I didn't know they had Star Trek re-runs in SA.
#fire
Snow squirrels!
I thought so too, but it's in all the pics and doesn't move, so must be a wreath
what bird?
First horse! (also a human, so you'll have to take my word for it)
Coyote having a nice roll on the scent bag. See next pic: ACH0004mqt
Something on the ground near the tree. Owl?
I agree! A few birds now and then and a picnicker once.
Coyote
Something flying through the air - rabbit? Flying squirrel?
I guessed red fox, because of the ear shape, but I have no idea if they climb on logs.
If you mean the thing with an "eye", it's the notorious plasticus watterbottlus. Apparently this spot is right next to a trash dump.
What a strange picture! I decided deer due to the smooth coat, but the muzzle and ear seems to be missing!
Wow - good eyes! I think it's a raccoon, though. Tail is round and furry.
Either an interstellar wormhole opened nearby or someone jiggled the camera.
Pretty sure it's an opossum.
Beautiful buck!
Another hefty raccoon.
World turned upside down. Bird doesn't care.
Is that a rabbit on the left, taking its chances with kitty?
Another curious deer
Coyote closeup
I don't see anything there
I wonder if this upright posture is in reaction to threat from the raccoon in the previous shot. On its way to playing possum?
Raccoon vs. opossum
Here's a real puzzle - something black is to the right of the tree - you can see it obscuring the trunk. What?
Yes
2 ducks and 1 redwing blackbird, but what's the round black thing at the water edge?
Yes, gray squirrel
Definitely a rabbit. Zoom in and you can see the ears.
3 - two standing up and one lying down
Biggest, fattest raccoon I ever saw. Thought it was a tree-climbing coyote. Look at this baby: ACH0004qn7
Coyote family!
Coyote, from the ear shape.
coyote with cold feet
Hmmm, removing comments doesn't remove pic from Recents
I'd guess dogs, based on thin tail of the one on the right. Also wider than a coyote.
It's the scent lure used to attract animals.
Possum exiting stage right, with scent bag.
Psychedelic dog
Probably. This site is overrun with them. They run right past the old cage trap in the raised garden beds 😃
3 coyotes! Family or pack?
Broken images are rare, failure to load is not. Gets into a loop of failure to load, until I click the "Don't repeat this screen" checkbox.
Web site does this to me a lot too. Just reload page to go to the next image.
Tree root
Squirrel on right. Object top left is a tree root.
Not an animal - something stuck in the tree? Whatever it is, it triggered hundreds of pics! For example: ACH00099zz
Small dog. Next pic : ACH00049yj. Look quick, pic will disappear after "human" classification.
No, but some hippies are coyotes (look it up on Urban Dictionary) 😉
Sasquatch! A big one too - "footprint" is about 1/2 meter long!
Professional Bowlers Association?
3 heads down - who's keeping watch?
Just a tree trunk. Camera should point higher - must have been moved.
No. It's a fire - we've seen pics from it before, like this: ACH0005wvz And here's the firefighter! ACH0005ww9 Maybe a control burn.
Obviously male, but what is it?
Wikipedia says litters up to 5 cubs. Elsewhere, I've read up to seven cubs. Can't imagine how the parents would feed them all!
Must have been the same incident as the goats: ACH000528x. Wasn't that quite a few years ago?
Bird ID, please?
muskrat? Or just an unusually dark opossum?
#mink My first!
I asked about this a while back - adults are solitary, so these are probably siblings.
Maybe just fewer mosquitoes here. We're in a severe drought, streams dry, no puddles.
We're overrun by crows and jays out here in CA, even with WNV. Different susceptibility?
It is a cool image, but one from the "gold-standard" collection.
See discussion: http://talk.chicagowildlifewatch.org/?_ga=1.251686857.1345709126.1416598409#/boards/BCH0000002/discussions/DCH000018u
Opossum encountering a ghostly sphere
Ummm - isn't this one of those "gold-standard" images that used to show up with a Bushnell label? Suspicious minds want to know.
It sure is - looks like it's pinning down its own tail with a paw.
coyote with head down
Daytime #opossum
A second raccoon.
Bird perching on the camera?
Fashion crime
I guessed two raccoons, since one pair of eyes is in the trees
Several deer - very hard to see
Ghostly coyote in the fog
coyote hiding behind the tree on the left?
Gold prize in the synchronized rooting competition.
I think any free photo editing program would work. It just needs to be able to adjust brightness and contrast.
I had to pull it into Photoshop and lighten the color to see it.
Looks like a squirrel with its head under a branch.
Mmmm, scent bags....
Nose and ear of something on the right? What is it? Raccoon? Nose seems too small.
Beautiful shot of head-up and head-down behavior
Why are only deer curious about the camera? Keener hearing?
I said a young coyote, based on the ear shape.
Beautiful #redfox
Eyeshine high in the tree, or background light? No clue.
Yes, #actionsquirrel jumping to the right
Oxymoron
Mark it as a bird. You can add #duck hashtag if you want.
No way to tell the time between pics. May be dozens in the space of a few minutes - every ear flick could trigger the camera.
From the previous pic, I think it's a cat.
Raccoon fishing
Squirrel? Tail shape is odd.
Wow - a raccoon convention! I count 6.
#swallow
What are they finding to eat in the leaf litter?
Another deer and raccoon pair.
I think it's a coyote
Cheating by look at the next pic from the camera: ACH000do3c it's a squirrel.
As a west-coaster used to drought, I find it restful after all that alien green stuff in the other pics.
Baby Canada Geese. See the adult near the tree?
Yeah - it would be great to have an off-topic conversation section of the discussion board.
Also, you'd be amazed at how ignorant most americans are of anything outside our borders. No need to worry.
Hey, CONCACAF's got you beat on FIFA corruption. Join the club.
Cute rabbit cameo
Deer and raccoon coexisting peacefully
dog or coyote?
Zombie pursued by 3 ghosts. And a dog.
Scent bag - see the "Featured Discussions"
Flower 😃
#bat ?
No problem, it'll taste good when it gets here.
Critter. Opossum - see the bare tail?
Haha, we drink bad beer. Just kidding. I can't show you, but with "lighten shadows" in photoshop I see a long, curved tail.
Lightening the image as much as I can, I'm pretty sure the animal in the background is the second coyote.
Could it possibly be another coyote rather than a deer? This earlier pic has 2 coyotes: ACH000dwe0
Suspected a critter behind the central tree but lost confidence and said "nothing there". What is it? Possum climbing head down?
Yes, what in the world is that past the tree? Edit - may just be a piece of trash: ACH000dt21
Confirmed by next pic: ACH000e6su
How can you tell it's a juvenile?
Cat? They don't like cold feet, but legs are pretty thin for a raccoon.
Tough one! I think you're right though. I picked fox, but it isn't big enough for that.
Can't say I've learned to value squirrels. I spend too much time swerving my car to avoid running over them. 😃
Can't steal the scent bag -- rubbing against it is the next best thing.
#woodchuck on the wildlife trail. Love this camera!
Extreme antler closeup
Interesting questions. They don't all have dark markings there - this buck doesn't: ACH000dpd6.
It marks the location of the tarsal scent gland, used for communication in both bucks and does. So having a visible marker is adaptive?
This camera was ubiquitous in the last completed set, in fall colors (2011?) and again, no critters.
The mysterious "empty zone" camera. Looks ideal for wildlife, right? Never seen a critter at this location.
Another deer with scars, different camera: ACH00077zf. My guess is an encounter with a fence or other entrapment.
#flying_squirrel or just an actionsquirrel?
Are you seeing it as head down? I see it head up, and a hint of racoon tail below.
Lovely spots on this #fawn!
Log behind the tree fooled me! Not a mink 😦.
I think it's a chance arrangement of leaves. See 4 frames later: ACH00049e9, same thing. Squirrel on left set off camera.
What's this fox doing? Hind legs are in a strange position and fur on back is odd.
I picked domestic cat for this one, in spite of the bushy tail, because I haven't seen a coyote with these markings
Parallel scars from a fence or predator?
Lil' brother got himself stuck on the wrong side of the fence.
Yes, very common.
It's a scent bag to lure animals into the view of the camera.
Looks like the butt end of a fox squirrel
Agree. And head "neither" according to the scientists - a frequent source of confusion. The head is not raised relative to the body axis.
Went with skunk, but body shape doesn't look right?
OK, I'm pacified 😃 I hate to think my best discoveries are already known.
Dammit - got me again! Why are tutorial images in this set?
Flying squirrel or bat?
great #woodchuck cameo!
Very pregnant doe.
I think what you're seeing is just the shoreline behind the fence - here's a daylight view: ACH0009300.
Hand over the lens, is my guess.
I don't see anything but a log
I think it's the head of a CWW staffer replacing the scent bag - absent in the previous pic, there in the next one.
What's the little bird creeping up the tree on the right?
I called it a juvenile coyote
Cannot parse this #whatsit at all. I picked beaver, because it's near the river and tree looks freshly gnawed.
#cardinal
Who started the fire? The squirrels done it.... ACH0005wvi Last pic before the burn.
Active tense: "It is important enough to me to not discard one season at this camera, to ask volunteers to classify >7000 empty pics"
#wood_duck Have to use underbar to get entire hashtag
Yep - but some of the cameras are much worse. One tree has over 7000 "self-portraits".
Odd mosaic on this squirrel.
Nothing. Black object on the ground is probably the scent lure fallen off of the tree.
Theft being contemplated.
daytime juvenile #coyote
See discussion thread on this very topic. Get used to it, there are about 7000 more to go. Yes, I've seen a squirrel, woohoo!
#whatsit in a box. I marked opossum but from later pics, probably rabbit.
#redfox cameo
Pretty sure that's a coyote - red foxes have black ears and legs and are smaller.
Camera pics: ACH000eglz to ACH000el8z Approx. 200K pics, mostly without animals
Not a fox squirrel?
#starving #deer
You can go through a whole sequence of pics by changing the last digit of the ID, e.g., ACH0006foz. The lump never moves.
Yeah - I vote to delete all these pics. Too bad I don't get a vote 😃
Yes, they are sort of a plague all across the US. Populations have soared. They hang out in parks and foul lawns and ponds.
Sure, just don't expect him to befriend your pets 😃
More likely urinating/defecating. Tail is vertical when they spray.
Something red on the tree branch on the left. #woodpecker ACH000crd6 , no idea why pic isn't showing
Livestock, but apparently this is an image from the new user tutorial collection.
It's a scent bag used to lure animals into view of the camera.
Cat pouncing. If the two dots above kitty are eyes, it missed its prey.
#eurasian_collared_doves
Cool!
haha, nice try. That's why the "human" pics get masked.
Hello!
Damn! I thought I'd really found something.
This is a new one - a guy walking his goats! I didn't mark the human, so we can all enjoy - at least briefly!
I say it's a dog. If you open the full image and zoom in, you can see one floppy ear.
It's mysterious. It appears in about 30 pics, up to here, ACH0004x8q, then vanishes. Moves from the foliage to beyond it. Background light?
Possum leaves victorious, stage left: ACH0004qyn
I'll have to vote for juvenile robin. It's in a lot of pics from this camera, see ACH000bd8r, and not prairie chicken habitat.
Funny! I think it's that rare creature - the moon. http://talk.chicagowildlifewatch.org/#/subjects/ACH0004x8b
Not a problem - if there's no consensus, the researchers review the picture.
My guess is one skunk. Not sure about light patch above the mattress.
This is a tough one. Not a deer, tail too thin for coyote. I said dog, but not sure.
raccoon - you can see the face mask and a bit of the tail
No, just a fat, furry domestic or feral cat.
Appearances can be deceiving. It's in all the photos and never moves = rock.
A handsome #skunk
I was about to mark raccoon, but too skinny and leg shape looks like a cat - tabby cat?
I see a squirrel - I don't see a bird.
#skunk It helps to copy the image into a photo editing program and lighten the image.
#juvenile #coyote
#grackle
That's exactly what it is.
Yep, opossum. Not my favorite animal - they hiss like a cat and show rows of sharp teeth when approached. Fortunately, nocturnal.
#fish
Beautiful #fawn !
I think the green thing is pine needles - does look like a frog though. Albino squirrel on the right?
Just trash, masquerading as an animal. It's in all the pics and never moves.
We saw albino or leucistic raccoons and opossums in the last set of pics.
Albino raccoon?
Starving deer
Wow - 5 raccoons!
Yes, this camera is worthless - I think the traffic sets it off
Appearances can be deceiving - it's a deer's rear
I'm uncertain about that, as a matter of principle
No, just deer with their ears at a strange angle
It's a scent bag used to lure animals.
Symmetrical #foxsquirrels
#snowbirds
#redfox heading for the graveyard
I'd say opossum.
Looks like a gray squirrel to me - halo around the tail is the giveaway
#animal_encounters
They're rare in these pics - one hung out on a log in the last set of fall pics.
raccoon #family
Uh-oh, this neighborhood has a rabbit problem..
This is cool - the lights in the water are reflections of fish eyes. If you follow the pic sequence, you can see them moving.
What happened to this poor squirrel's tail? It's all white and stripey!
#actioncoyote Looks like it might have caught a skunk. Bad idea!
No, coyote having a nice dust bath
And an extremely boring tree that has about a million photos in the database 😃
Some cameras are just oversensitive. We asked the researchers to prescreen the new data set for problems like this, but not sure it happened
I think it's a dog - easier to see if you zoom in.
The researchers said metadata was part of the database - that should ID the camera.
Quickly for whom? Say 1000 images x 4 classifications x 2 seconds/classification = 2 hours of volunteer time.
It would be nice if the researchers deleted this camera from the database - what point is there in tracking the train schedule?
The pics database isn't perfect - broken links, over/underexposed pics, "Bushnell" sample images - just refresh to a new image.
Beautiful!
Really? Where's the crest? And it doesn't have the black face marking.
Summer tanager?
I think it's a coyote - it's just the light makes it look red. See this pic: ACH0004trj
Thought the lump at the bottom left of the tree was a mink, but it's in all the pics, so just a root...
Five very cold, pink fingers.
No perps in view, unfortunately 😃
Control burn or arson?
#whatsit I guessed raccoon.
Ever had the feeling something was watching you?
#butterfly
So did I!
Tried to figure out what this strange-shaped animal was, then realized it's a deer ear. Funny.
#kildeer
Coyote pups!
Eyeshine in a tree. I guessed a climbing possum, but who knows?
Raccoon mosh pit.
I originally thought rabbit - probably should have stuck with my first guess.
Cat intent on something close by, while ignoring the squirrel in the distance.
Here's the same camera, different day - with a red fox, per the black ears: ACH000dczd
Ah now, not gormless! Maybe clueless 😃
But I do find this season creepy for privacy reasons. And don't see why so many cameras pointing at roads, paths, and soccer fields.
The pics get replaced with a "human" image after being classified, but can still be seen in the preview.
#foxsquirrel Spring behaviors
Boy watching duck, ears akimbo.
#juvenile_robin
#tanager
I have to admit, opossums are one critter I've never warmed up to. All those teeth, and they hiss when approached.
Lovely detail on this pic.
#raccoon checking out the camera
That's what it is, an opossum (not a "possum" as we sometimes call them here - those are from Australia!)
I guessed #skunk, and next pic proved me right. Yesss!
What's the bird at the base of the tree? Whip-poor-will? Nighthawk? Something in that family.
#faun very well hidden in the grass
#grosbeak ?
Mysterious deer emerging from green mist.
I was so disgusted with the piles of trash, I missed the raccoon!
I think it is a raccoon - you can barely see stripes on the tail.
#heron
I still say coyote - may have mange, which makes the tail skinny.
Coyote in broad daylight, or dog? I said coyote due to the posture, even though the tail is a bit skinny.
Changing the URL to an previous or subsequent pic is a good way to figure out unclear animals, after you've already ID'd it, of course.
Actually, it's a live deer! Here's 3 captures previous to this one. ACH000cap5.
Can't tell what's on the right - not even sure if it's a head or a tail of an animal. What do you think?
Deer horns? Alien invasion?
First opossum I've seen in the winter set. That naked tail must get cold!
Coyote got the scent bag!
Good eyes! You can see the shape if you lighten the pic in photoshop or similar program.
The first time I saw it I thought the dark lump was an animal, but it never moves and is in all the pics, so no.
#whatsit I can't parse this at all - working on a crappy laptop doesn't help. Stump? Animal in an odd position?
#foxsquirrel head up in a graveyard.
Tough going!
Yep, it's a rabbit - shows up in a lot of these pics.
Ho, hum, another train rolling by. Not what I want to spend time classifying.
There's hundreds of pics from this location without a single critter - I wouldn't bother marking anything. It's clearly a bum camera.
When food is scarce, even smelly scent bags are worth checking out. #redfox
Personally I don't count cars unless they are off a road. I don't know if that's right, but I've got better things to do than count cars.
Prey is scarce
Lean pickings
I think eyeshine is two raccoons behind the fence, but hard to tell.
It's an opossum. White skinny tail.
I'd agree - dog.
That was my second choice - darn! Can the study organizers override classifiers when there's no consensus?
Impressive horns!
Cool! Synchronized rooting.
Kid is holding something under their hand - that's the webbing.
OK, I feel silly now. I marked this as a dog, because I saw a webbed paw, but on second look it's clearly a human, probably a child.
I guessed a dog hind end, but who knows!
There are white & black pics - a malfunction. I also see pics that take a while to load, but those show an icon in the corner.
#redfox
I said rat, but now I think you're right.
Here's one with the fish and the raccoon together: ACH0001y86. Too bad he doesn't have infrared vision!
Definitely flooding. I even saw a fish in a pic from this camera! See here: http://talk.chicagowildlifewatch.org/#/subjects/ACH0001y84
Long-hair cat.
3-way face-off
Fox squirrel cameo.
It's the scent bag used to lure animals to the camera. Each camera has one, but sometimes they fall off.
I say a domestic black cat. Can't tell what the bright spots are - maybe the leftovers of the animal (bird or mouse?) the cat is eating.
One rabbit is cute. Two rabbits is an invasion.
Mmmmm, butyric acid. Rotten egg smell. It's surprising that such a wide range of animals go for that!
I hope you marked it as a deer! Give the researchers some laughs.
#fox loves the scent bags. What's in those, anyway?
I think it's a coyote.
Winter is coming.....
Likely someone clicked the wrong checkbox - the grey image is put there for privacy when you mark it as having a human in it.
Raccoon has something in its mouth.
I'd say two heads neither (at same level as shoulders) and one head down - Yes, enter the two positions separately.
That's a scent bag - used to lure animals into view of the camera.
Raccoon Jr. trying to keep up with mom.
Female raccoon on it's hind legs with teats?
It's even creepier the third time 😃
Deer
..Bump... Is this camera near a river? I'm curious.
Yikes, no idea what this is! Not a possum - no white tail and too furry. I said cat.
The tail doesn't look right for a muskrat. My first guess was a river otter. Is this camera near water?
What a gorgeous red tail!
Woodchuck?
I'd guess cat - too small for a coyote.
These are pics from fall 2013. Could be next to a river or swamp, I guess.
Ummm, #fish? Not kidding - this looks like a flooded area with a fish in it. Looking for another interpretation.
No, on second inspection, I think they're just deer.
Beautiful deer cameo. You know, Chicago needs some wolves -- these deer are way too comfortable!
Wild pigs?! Tail doesn't look quite right.There are two near the tree and one on the left. I marked them as livestock.
Maybe just lying down, based on other pics that show it sleeping here.
cardinal
Wee timorous mousie! It hangs out in those shrubs at night.
Just a branch of a tree.
My guess is a long-haired cat.
Great pic! And what is the dark object on the log? Prey?
There are two kinds of squirrel listed - grey and fox. See blog post link below pics on how to tell which is which.
You can zoom with keyboard shortcuts (CTL-+ in Windows). I sometimes copy images into a photo editing program to brighten them up.
daytime #oppossum
#owl
3 coyotes on the prowl! Easy to miss the one behind the tree.
Possum been treed...
#finches
Yes - that mouse is in a lot of the pics from this camera.
Just make your best guess. Brightening it in photoshop I can see it's a rabbit, but I don't do that for every dark pic.
Gray squirrel, head down. I don't think there's a rabbit - looks like trash to me.
Scarred raccoon - wonder if a coyote got him?
Albino opossum again, or cat?
TVs as in electronic junk? How sad!
This is my favorite camera. It's a real wildlife (and domestic animal) highway.
The black object is the scent bag that is used to lure animals into the camera view. Each camera has one, though they sometimes fall off.
#red_fox
No, it's a rabbit -see the long ears at the very bottom of the image?
eyeshine at the very top of the frame, but too dim to see what it is - maybe a rabbit.
Search on the coyote hashtag - the camera caught this one doing all sorts of things in the open.
A #coyote having a quiet nap on the bank of a canal. Maybe he'll snarf up a few of those annoying Canada Geese.
Yes, they delete images marked as human, I suppose for privacy reasons.
Opossum #pair. Generally solitary animals - I've never seen two together. Mating happening?
Even the "least productive" cameras sometimes have some gems.
Just got this pic yesterday (I said cat). I wonder if pics are served in a set order rather than randomly.
Thanks - I can do that in Photoshop too (CTL-C, CTL-V, Autofix), but I wish I could just increase contrast in areas of the screen.
What's your workflow? I won't go to the hassle of saving an image, opening it in Photoshop, etc., but if there's an easier way...
That's my vote too - a long-hair cat.
Ha! I kept skipping this one. My best guess is either an orange tailless cat or a really ugly Ugg boot.
#Coyote marking a nondescript tree. Take that, Canada geese!
Rolling #coyote
Something looking up at the camera. Raccoon? Tail isn't striped, but too blurred to really tell.
Is that an animal's head sticking out on the left side of the tree? What is it?
Beautiful shot!
I marked this as a bird (owl) since I've seen a small owl in this camera before.
These are cameras that rarely or never have animals. It would be great to reposition or tune those cameras in the future (hint, hint).
If you're interested, I started a collection: Least Productive Cameras - "arthur" is one of them.
Looks like the remains of a dead raccoon at the bottom of the pic.
Coyote convocation!
Something dark on the left - can't really tell what.
#whatsis
A little too dark to be a deer - any guesses?
I thought maybe a #mink .
#bird -- missed it, darn it.
Only mammal I've ever seen in this camera - maybe a #beaver ? Hard to say.
What causes the white blur? I marked it as a bird, but it could just as easily be something climbing the tree.
Looks like 2 coyotes playing in the grass.
Showdown! I think the #deer on the left has the advantage.
Yep, misidentified it as an opossum.
#raccoon meets #skunk in a #graveyard at night. Cool!
Dead coyote, or sleeping?
Possible #gray-fox . See black patch on top of tail, light colored legs.
Coyote in broad daylight
#woodchuck?
Arsonist?
Unidentifiable round object - is it alive?
oops - missed a rabbit
What is this black/white animal? Not shaped like a skunk. I marked it as a domestic cat.
CWW researchers said there's a major trash dump in the background. Old TVs, the whole mess...
I think it's a domestic cat - probably feral, but no way to know. Blur on left may be a kitten? See ACH000gnnh
Colorful fox squirrel
Half rest
Mob of raccoons!
Oooo!!
No, there's something pink on the ground - see ACH000gvfo
Teaching moment
Just found out these pics go waaay back! These animals are definitely playing! ACH000cg6z
Look at the entire sequence starting with ACH000cg70. If pics are sequential, these two seem to tolerate each other pretty well.
Wanna play possum?
The young raccoon and opossum seem to enjoy each other's company! See ACH000cg70 through ACH000cg79 and ACH000cg7b. Play behavior?
Spot the #rabbit? Tricky!
Hmm, pic didn't appear and can't delete from "recents"
One kit isn't going with the program.
twin #fawns
Cool! Mom seems to be modeling avoidance behavior. Opossums have sharp teeth!
Very alert #red_fox
#chipmunk
#rat
This is a tough one due to bad color - two animals on right - dogs?
Never noticed it looks like a cat! It's in all the pics - it's a scar on the tree.
#chipmunk
#coyote family or pack
How does a raccoon get through a fence? Over, under, or through? How about all three ways!
Guessed #cat. Hindquarters don't look like raccoon.
No. Must be my lack of imagination. I see something white like a clump of snow on sticks.
No, I think it's something hanging from the tree. It's in all the pics.
lovely #fawn
Coyote expressing an opinion regarding the scent bag
A muskrat rear end and tail fits the colors & texture, but it doesn't seem to be in contact with the ground
Black #rat or mouse on the log - had to invert the color to see it.
Ribs showing and all that green grass in the background?
#chipmunk
#melanistic_squirrel
#rat
#northern_flicker
#chipmunk
Beautiful #fawn
oppossum #pair
Female cardinal
Northern flicker among the leaves
It's well camouflaged but pretty obvious once you spot it.
I'd say deer by how slender the leg is.
Maybe a bird tail, but hard to tell.
Havahart trap, yes. Doesn't scare the bunnies at all. Whoever built these beds has given up.
Scrawny. Maybe malnourished?
Could be but isn't 😃. Here's a daytime pic. ACH000c1m9 BTW - hundreds of this camera with same night shot- save us time and purge them?
I think it's just a log. In 2 years of pics, never seen a critter at this site.
OK, but it's looking left, that's a good sign.
No, to check on classifier accuracy say the scientists
Gorgeous daytime #coyote
#owl !!
Eyes in the background - more coyotes, or deer?
3 coyote pups
I think it's a bird-shaped piece of bark or something.
Nocturnal bird or just up past its bedtime?
Coyote is sure there's prey down there.
After stealing the scent bag, #coyote puts his own scent in its place. Win!
Gorgeous buck. Guessing a second deer in the background.
Deer ear closeup
Whose glowing eyes are these? Even at max magnification, can't spot the animal.
Raccoon on the right, but what are the two white critters on the left? Opossums?
Common as dirt, as we say here. Fly around in huge flocks.
No, just ice crystals in the snow
Danger of reading other folks comments - not an owl but an odd piece of vegetation - see ACH0007bj6. I was convinced 😃
No, it's a tree root
Opossum. They aren't usually seen in daytime - maybe this one has insomnia.
Could be, or maybe a cat. I see a thin tail toward the tree, but it isn't bare like an opossum.
Ball'o fur. I guess it's a raccoon with it's head buried under the grass?
A scent bag theft in progress
Rabbit! For some reason this camera took hundreds of pics of it.
Awww...little critter in a tree! Cute! Mouse or baby opossum?
Love Inverted Color in the High Contrast Chrome plug-in! Never would have spotted the bird w/o it!
Definitely a bird! Red crest and tail.
Oh,sorry. CA is where I live, so excusable mistake, I hope 😃
Black ones are tri-colored blackbirds, brown maybe juveniles of same, but not sure. My bird knowledge stops at LBBs (little brown birds)
Beautiful #foxsquirrel
OK, I got up here, now how do I get down again?
Gray squirrel with a red body? Fox squirrel with a gray tail? Hybrid?
Oh, OK 😃 Thought it was a ball or something.
Otherwise, those interesting pics get buried in the "recents" page.
Hey, radio buttons are the way to mark animals. Save the hashtags for rare/interesting pics so we can all see the responses.
Something pink in its mouth. Trash?
northern flicker
wood duck. Better view here: ACH000cavo
Such a long tail!
Red fox
0-o
The most boring camera finally scores a hit - coyote lurking behind the fence.
TV cartoon character from 1950s/1960s. Obviously still in pop culture, since I don't think DZM is that old! 😃
Beaver?! Or muskrat?
Faint animal to right of tree - visible with image lightening. I said coyote, but not sure.
Just mark them "nothing there". With hundreds of cameras, some will malfunction.
Rabbit in a field of flowers - nice!
Should we ignore those people in classifying?
Love the lake in the background, but most pics will not be fully classified, due to many humans at shoreline
white opossum on white snow!
Not sure what's to the left of the tree. Raccoon?
Camera strap
Yes, but the disease evolved to be less deadly as it moved westward across the U.S. Populations of crows are recovering.
Randomization broken or not done for a new season? Seeing long sequences of pics from same camera, like 6 in a row.
Raccoon - can see a bit of the striped tail
coyote puppy meets scent bag
Perfect! I didn't know they had Star Trek re-runs in SA.
#fire
Snow squirrels!
I thought so too, but it's in all the pics and doesn't move, so must be a wreath
what bird?
First horse! (also a human, so you'll have to take my word for it)
Coyote having a nice roll on the scent bag. See next pic: ACH0004mqt
Something on the ground near the tree. Owl?
I agree! A few birds now and then and a picnicker once.
Coyote
Something flying through the air - rabbit? Flying squirrel?
I guessed red fox, because of the ear shape, but I have no idea if they climb on logs.
If you mean the thing with an "eye", it's the notorious plasticus watterbottlus. Apparently this spot is right next to a trash dump.
What a strange picture! I decided deer due to the smooth coat, but the muzzle and ear seems to be missing!
Wow - good eyes! I think it's a raccoon, though. Tail is round and furry.
Either an interstellar wormhole opened nearby or someone jiggled the camera.
Pretty sure it's an opossum.
Beautiful buck!
Another hefty raccoon.
World turned upside down. Bird doesn't care.
Is that a rabbit on the left, taking its chances with kitty?
Another curious deer
Coyote closeup
I don't see anything there
I wonder if this upright posture is in reaction to threat from the raccoon in the previous shot. On its way to playing possum?
Raccoon vs. opossum
Here's a real puzzle - something black is to the right of the tree - you can see it obscuring the trunk. What?
Yes
2 ducks and 1 redwing blackbird, but what's the round black thing at the water edge?
Yes, gray squirrel
Definitely a rabbit. Zoom in and you can see the ears.
3 - two standing up and one lying down
Biggest, fattest raccoon I ever saw. Thought it was a tree-climbing coyote. Look at this baby: ACH0004qn7
Coyote family!
Coyote, from the ear shape.
coyote with cold feet
Hmmm, removing comments doesn't remove pic from Recents
I'd guess dogs, based on thin tail of the one on the right. Also wider than a coyote.
It's the scent lure used to attract animals.
Possum exiting stage right, with scent bag.
Psychedelic dog
Probably. This site is overrun with them. They run right past the old cage trap in the raised garden beds 😃
3 coyotes! Family or pack?
Broken images are rare, failure to load is not. Gets into a loop of failure to load, until I click the "Don't repeat this screen" checkbox.
Web site does this to me a lot too. Just reload page to go to the next image.
Tree root
Squirrel on right. Object top left is a tree root.
Not an animal - something stuck in the tree? Whatever it is, it triggered hundreds of pics! For example: ACH00099zz
Small dog. Next pic : ACH00049yj. Look quick, pic will disappear after "human" classification.
No, but some hippies are coyotes (look it up on Urban Dictionary) 😉
Sasquatch! A big one too - "footprint" is about 1/2 meter long!
Professional Bowlers Association?
3 heads down - who's keeping watch?
Just a tree trunk. Camera should point higher - must have been moved.
No. It's a fire - we've seen pics from it before, like this: ACH0005wvz And here's the firefighter! ACH0005ww9 Maybe a control burn.
Obviously male, but what is it?
Wikipedia says litters up to 5 cubs. Elsewhere, I've read up to seven cubs. Can't imagine how the parents would feed them all!
Must have been the same incident as the goats: ACH000528x. Wasn't that quite a few years ago?
Bird ID, please?
muskrat? Or just an unusually dark opossum?
#chipmunk
#mink My first!
I asked about this a while back - adults are solitary, so these are probably siblings.
Maybe just fewer mosquitoes here. We're in a severe drought, streams dry, no puddles.
We're overrun by crows and jays out here in CA, even with WNV. Different susceptibility?
It is a cool image, but one from the "gold-standard" collection.
See discussion: http://talk.chicagowildlifewatch.org/?_ga=1.251686857.1345709126.1416598409#/boards/BCH0000002/discussions/DCH000018u
Opossum encountering a ghostly sphere
Ummm - isn't this one of those "gold-standard" images that used to show up with a Bushnell label? Suspicious minds want to know.
It sure is - looks like it's pinning down its own tail with a paw.
coyote with head down
Daytime #opossum
A second raccoon.
Bird perching on the camera?
Fashion crime
I guessed two raccoons, since one pair of eyes is in the trees
Several deer - very hard to see
Ghostly coyote in the fog
coyote hiding behind the tree on the left?
Gold prize in the synchronized rooting competition.
I think any free photo editing program would work. It just needs to be able to adjust brightness and contrast.
I had to pull it into Photoshop and lighten the color to see it.
Looks like a squirrel with its head under a branch.
Mmmm, scent bags....
Nose and ear of something on the right? What is it? Raccoon? Nose seems too small.
#chipmunk
Beautiful shot of head-up and head-down behavior
Why are only deer curious about the camera? Keener hearing?
I said a young coyote, based on the ear shape.
Beautiful #redfox
Eyeshine high in the tree, or background light? No clue.
Yes, #actionsquirrel jumping to the right
Oxymoron
Mark it as a bird. You can add #duck hashtag if you want.
No way to tell the time between pics. May be dozens in the space of a few minutes - every ear flick could trigger the camera.
From the previous pic, I think it's a cat.
Raccoon fishing
Squirrel? Tail shape is odd.
Wow - a raccoon convention! I count 6.
#swallow
What are they finding to eat in the leaf litter?
Another deer and raccoon pair.
I think it's a coyote
Cheating by look at the next pic from the camera: ACH000do3c it's a squirrel.
As a west-coaster used to drought, I find it restful after all that alien green stuff in the other pics.
Baby Canada Geese. See the adult near the tree?
Yeah - it would be great to have an off-topic conversation section of the discussion board.
Also, you'd be amazed at how ignorant most americans are of anything outside our borders. No need to worry.
Hey, CONCACAF's got you beat on FIFA corruption. Join the club.
Cute rabbit cameo
Deer and raccoon coexisting peacefully
dog or coyote?
Zombie pursued by 3 ghosts. And a dog.
Scent bag - see the "Featured Discussions"
Flower 😃
#bat ?
No problem, it'll taste good when it gets here.
Critter. Opossum - see the bare tail?
Haha, we drink bad beer. Just kidding. I can't show you, but with "lighten shadows" in photoshop I see a long, curved tail.
Lightening the image as much as I can, I'm pretty sure the animal in the background is the second coyote.
Could it possibly be another coyote rather than a deer? This earlier pic has 2 coyotes: ACH000dwe0
Suspected a critter behind the central tree but lost confidence and said "nothing there". What is it? Possum climbing head down?
Yes, what in the world is that past the tree? Edit - may just be a piece of trash: ACH000dt21
Confirmed by next pic: ACH000e6su
How can you tell it's a juvenile?
Cat? They don't like cold feet, but legs are pretty thin for a raccoon.
Tough one! I think you're right though. I picked fox, but it isn't big enough for that.
Can't say I've learned to value squirrels. I spend too much time swerving my car to avoid running over them. 😃
Can't steal the scent bag -- rubbing against it is the next best thing.
#woodchuck on the wildlife trail. Love this camera!
Extreme antler closeup
Interesting questions. They don't all have dark markings there - this buck doesn't: ACH000dpd6.
It marks the location of the tarsal scent gland, used for communication in both bucks and does. So having a visible marker is adaptive?
This camera was ubiquitous in the last completed set, in fall colors (2011?) and again, no critters.
The mysterious "empty zone" camera. Looks ideal for wildlife, right? Never seen a critter at this location.
Another deer with scars, different camera: ACH00077zf. My guess is an encounter with a fence or other entrapment.
#flying_squirrel or just an actionsquirrel?
Are you seeing it as head down? I see it head up, and a hint of racoon tail below.
Lovely spots on this #fawn!
Log behind the tree fooled me! Not a mink 😦.
I think it's a chance arrangement of leaves. See 4 frames later: ACH00049e9, same thing. Squirrel on left set off camera.
What's this fox doing? Hind legs are in a strange position and fur on back is odd.
I picked domestic cat for this one, in spite of the bushy tail, because I haven't seen a coyote with these markings
Parallel scars from a fence or predator?
Lil' brother got himself stuck on the wrong side of the fence.
Beautiful #foxsquirrel
Yes, very common.
It's a scent bag to lure animals into the view of the camera.
Looks like the butt end of a fox squirrel
Agree. And head "neither" according to the scientists - a frequent source of confusion. The head is not raised relative to the body axis.
Went with skunk, but body shape doesn't look right?
OK, I'm pacified 😃 I hate to think my best discoveries are already known.
Dammit - got me again! Why are tutorial images in this set?
Flying squirrel or bat?
great #woodchuck cameo!
Very pregnant doe.
I think what you're seeing is just the shoreline behind the fence - here's a daylight view: ACH0009300.
Hand over the lens, is my guess.
Coyote
I don't see anything but a log
I think it's the head of a CWW staffer replacing the scent bag - absent in the previous pic, there in the next one.
What's the little bird creeping up the tree on the right?
I called it a juvenile coyote
Cannot parse this #whatsit at all. I picked beaver, because it's near the river and tree looks freshly gnawed.
#cardinal
Who started the fire? The squirrels done it.... ACH0005wvi
Last pic before the burn.
Active tense: "It is important enough to me to not discard one season at this camera, to ask volunteers to classify >7000 empty pics"
#wood_duck Have to use underbar to get entire hashtag
Yep - but some of the cameras are much worse. One tree has over 7000 "self-portraits".
Odd mosaic on this squirrel.
Nothing. Black object on the ground is probably the scent lure fallen off of the tree.
Theft being contemplated.
daytime juvenile #coyote
See discussion thread on this very topic. Get used to it, there are about 7000 more to go. Yes, I've seen a squirrel, woohoo!
#whatsit in a box. I marked opossum but from later pics, probably rabbit.
#redfox cameo
Pretty sure that's a coyote - red foxes have black ears and legs and are smaller.
Camera pics: ACH000eglz to ACH000el8z
Approx. 200K pics, mostly without animals
Not a fox squirrel?
#starving #deer
You can go through a whole sequence of pics by changing the last digit of the ID, e.g., ACH0006foz. The lump never moves.
Yeah - I vote to delete all these pics. Too bad I don't get a vote 😃
Yes, they are sort of a plague all across the US. Populations have soared. They hang out in parks and foul lawns and ponds.
Sure, just don't expect him to befriend your pets 😃
More likely urinating/defecating. Tail is vertical when they spray.
Something red on the tree branch on the left. #woodpecker ACH000crd6 , no idea why pic isn't showing
Livestock, but apparently this is an image from the new user tutorial collection.
It's a scent bag used to lure animals into view of the camera.
Cat pouncing. If the two dots above kitty are eyes, it missed its prey.
#northern_flicker
#eurasian_collared_doves
Cool!
haha, nice try. That's why the "human" pics get masked.
Hello!
Damn! I thought I'd really found something.
This is a new one - a guy walking his goats! I didn't mark the human, so we can all enjoy - at least briefly!
I say it's a dog. If you open the full image and zoom in, you can see one floppy ear.
It's mysterious. It appears in about 30 pics, up to here, ACH0004x8q, then vanishes. Moves from the foliage to beyond it. Background light?
Possum leaves victorious, stage left: ACH0004qyn
I'll have to vote for juvenile robin. It's in a lot of pics from this camera, see ACH000bd8r, and not prairie chicken habitat.
Funny! I think it's that rare creature - the moon. http://talk.chicagowildlifewatch.org/#/subjects/ACH0004x8b
Not a problem - if there's no consensus, the researchers review the picture.
My guess is one skunk. Not sure about light patch above the mattress.
This is a tough one. Not a deer, tail too thin for coyote. I said dog, but not sure.
raccoon - you can see the face mask and a bit of the tail
No, just a fat, furry domestic or feral cat.
Appearances can be deceiving. It's in all the photos and never moves = rock.
A handsome #skunk
I was about to mark raccoon, but too skinny and leg shape looks like a cat - tabby cat?
I see a squirrel - I don't see a bird.
#skunk
It helps to copy the image into a photo editing program and lighten the image.
#juvenile #coyote
#grackle
That's exactly what it is.
Coyote
Yep, opossum. Not my favorite animal - they hiss like a cat and show rows of sharp teeth when approached. Fortunately, nocturnal.
#fish
Beautiful #fawn !
#chipmunk
I think the green thing is pine needles - does look like a frog though. Albino squirrel on the right?
Just trash, masquerading as an animal. It's in all the pics and never moves.
We saw albino or leucistic raccoons and opossums in the last set of pics.
Albino raccoon?
Starving deer
Wow - 5 raccoons!
Yes, this camera is worthless - I think the traffic sets it off
Appearances can be deceiving - it's a deer's rear
I'm uncertain about that, as a matter of principle
No, just deer with their ears at a strange angle
It's a scent bag used to lure animals.
Symmetrical #foxsquirrels
#snowbirds
#redfox heading for the graveyard
I'd say opossum.
Looks like a gray squirrel to me - halo around the tail is the giveaway
#animal_encounters
They're rare in these pics - one hung out on a log in the last set of fall pics.
raccoon #family
#cardinal
Uh-oh, this neighborhood has a rabbit problem..
This is cool - the lights in the water are reflections of fish eyes. If you follow the pic sequence, you can see them moving.
What happened to this poor squirrel's tail? It's all white and stripey!
#actioncoyote Looks like it might have caught a skunk. Bad idea!
No, coyote having a nice dust bath
And an extremely boring tree that has about a million photos in the database 😃
Some cameras are just oversensitive. We asked the researchers to prescreen the new data set for problems like this, but not sure it happened
I think it's a dog - easier to see if you zoom in.
The researchers said metadata was part of the database - that should ID the camera.
Quickly for whom? Say 1000 images x 4 classifications x 2 seconds/classification = 2 hours of volunteer time.
It would be nice if the researchers deleted this camera from the database - what point is there in tracking the train schedule?
The pics database isn't perfect - broken links, over/underexposed pics, "Bushnell" sample images - just refresh to a new image.
Beautiful!
Really? Where's the crest? And it doesn't have the black face marking.
Summer tanager?
I think it's a coyote - it's just the light makes it look red. See this pic: ACH0004trj
Thought the lump at the bottom left of the tree was a mink, but it's in all the pics, so just a root...
Five very cold, pink fingers.
No perps in view, unfortunately 😃
Control burn or arson?
#whatsit I guessed raccoon.
Ever had the feeling something was watching you?
#butterfly
So did I!
Tried to figure out what this strange-shaped animal was, then realized it's a deer ear. Funny.
#kildeer
Coyote pups!
Eyeshine in a tree. I guessed a climbing possum, but who knows?
Raccoon mosh pit.
I originally thought rabbit - probably should have stuck with my first guess.
Cat intent on something close by, while ignoring the squirrel in the distance.
Here's the same camera, different day - with a red fox, per the black ears: ACH000dczd
Ah now, not gormless! Maybe clueless 😃
But I do find this season creepy for privacy reasons. And don't see why so many cameras pointing at roads, paths, and soccer fields.
The pics get replaced with a "human" image after being classified, but can still be seen in the preview.
#foxsquirrel Spring behaviors
Boy watching duck, ears akimbo.
#juvenile_robin
#tanager
I have to admit, opossums are one critter I've never warmed up to. All those teeth, and they hiss when approached.
Lovely detail on this pic.
#raccoon checking out the camera
That's what it is, an opossum (not a "possum" as we sometimes call them here - those are from Australia!)
I guessed #skunk, and next pic proved me right. Yesss!
What's the bird at the base of the tree? Whip-poor-will? Nighthawk? Something in that family.
#faun very well hidden in the grass
#grosbeak ?
Mysterious deer emerging from green mist.
I was so disgusted with the piles of trash, I missed the raccoon!
I think it is a raccoon - you can barely see stripes on the tail.
#heron
I still say coyote - may have mange, which makes the tail skinny.
Coyote in broad daylight, or dog? I said coyote due to the posture, even though the tail is a bit skinny.
Changing the URL to an previous or subsequent pic is a good way to figure out unclear animals, after you've already ID'd it, of course.
Actually, it's a live deer! Here's 3 captures previous to this one. ACH000cap5.
Can't tell what's on the right - not even sure if it's a head or a tail of an animal. What do you think?
Deer horns? Alien invasion?
First opossum I've seen in the winter set. That naked tail must get cold!
Coyote got the scent bag!
Good eyes! You can see the shape if you lighten the pic in photoshop or similar program.
The first time I saw it I thought the dark lump was an animal, but it never moves and is in all the pics, so no.
#whatsit I can't parse this at all - working on a crappy laptop doesn't help. Stump? Animal in an odd position?
#foxsquirrel head up in a graveyard.
Tough going!
Cool!
Yep, it's a rabbit - shows up in a lot of these pics.
Ho, hum, another train rolling by. Not what I want to spend time classifying.
There's hundreds of pics from this location without a single critter - I wouldn't bother marking anything. It's clearly a bum camera.
When food is scarce, even smelly scent bags are worth checking out. #redfox
Personally I don't count cars unless they are off a road. I don't know if that's right, but I've got better things to do than count cars.
Prey is scarce
Lean pickings
I think eyeshine is two raccoons behind the fence, but hard to tell.
It's an opossum. White skinny tail.
I'd agree - dog.
That was my second choice - darn! Can the study organizers override classifiers when there's no consensus?
Impressive horns!
Cool! Synchronized rooting.
Kid is holding something under their hand - that's the webbing.
OK, I feel silly now. I marked this as a dog, because I saw a webbed paw, but on second look it's clearly a human, probably a child.
I guessed a dog hind end, but who knows!
There are white & black pics - a malfunction. I also see pics that take a while to load, but those show an icon in the corner.
#redfox
I said rat, but now I think you're right.
Here's one with the fish and the raccoon together: ACH0001y86. Too bad he doesn't have infrared vision!
Definitely flooding. I even saw a fish in a pic from this camera! See here:
http://talk.chicagowildlifewatch.org/#/subjects/ACH0001y84
Long-hair cat.
3-way face-off
Fox squirrel cameo.
#rat
It's the scent bag used to lure animals to the camera. Each camera has one, but sometimes they fall off.
I say a domestic black cat. Can't tell what the bright spots are - maybe the leftovers of the animal (bird or mouse?) the cat is eating.
One rabbit is cute. Two rabbits is an invasion.
Mmmmm, butyric acid. Rotten egg smell. It's surprising that such a wide range of animals go for that!
I hope you marked it as a deer! Give the researchers some laughs.
#fox loves the scent bags. What's in those, anyway?
I think it's a coyote.
Winter is coming.....
Likely someone clicked the wrong checkbox - the grey image is put there for privacy when you mark it as having a human in it.
Raccoon has something in its mouth.
I'd say two heads neither (at same level as shoulders) and one head down - Yes, enter the two positions separately.
That's a scent bag - used to lure animals into view of the camera.
Raccoon Jr. trying to keep up with mom.
Female raccoon on it's hind legs with teats?
It's even creepier the third time 😃
Deer
..Bump... Is this camera near a river? I'm curious.
Yikes, no idea what this is! Not a possum - no white tail and too furry. I said cat.
The tail doesn't look right for a muskrat. My first guess was a river otter. Is this camera near water?
What a gorgeous red tail!
Woodchuck?
I'd guess cat - too small for a coyote.
These are pics from fall 2013. Could be next to a river or swamp, I guess.
Ummm, #fish? Not kidding - this looks like a flooded area with a fish in it. Looking for another interpretation.
No, on second inspection, I think they're just deer.
Beautiful deer cameo. You know, Chicago needs some wolves -- these deer are way too comfortable!
Wild pigs?! Tail doesn't look quite right.There are two near the tree and one on the left. I marked them as livestock.
Maybe just lying down, based on other pics that show it sleeping here.
cardinal
Wee timorous mousie! It hangs out in those shrubs at night.
Just a branch of a tree.
My guess is a long-haired cat.
Great pic! And what is the dark object on the log? Prey?
There are two kinds of squirrel listed - grey and fox. See blog post link below pics on how to tell which is which.
You can zoom with keyboard shortcuts (CTL-+ in Windows). I sometimes copy images into a photo editing program to brighten them up.
daytime #oppossum
#owl
3 coyotes on the prowl! Easy to miss the one behind the tree.
Possum been treed...
#finches
Yes - that mouse is in a lot of the pics from this camera.
Just make your best guess. Brightening it in photoshop I can see it's a rabbit, but I don't do that for every dark pic.
Gray squirrel, head down. I don't think there's a rabbit - looks like trash to me.
Scarred raccoon - wonder if a coyote got him?
Albino opossum again, or cat?
TVs as in electronic junk? How sad!
This is my favorite camera. It's a real wildlife (and domestic animal) highway.
The black object is the scent bag that is used to lure animals into the camera view. Each camera has one, though they sometimes fall off.
#red_fox
No, it's a rabbit -see the long ears at the very bottom of the image?
eyeshine at the very top of the frame, but too dim to see what it is - maybe a rabbit.
Search on the coyote hashtag - the camera caught this one doing all sorts of things in the open.
A #coyote having a quiet nap on the bank of a canal. Maybe he'll snarf up a few of those annoying Canada Geese.
Yes, they delete images marked as human, I suppose for privacy reasons.
Opossum #pair. Generally solitary animals - I've never seen two together. Mating happening?
Even the "least productive" cameras sometimes have some gems.
Just got this pic yesterday (I said cat). I wonder if pics are served in a set order rather than randomly.
Thanks - I can do that in Photoshop too (CTL-C, CTL-V, Autofix), but I wish I could just increase contrast in areas of the screen.
What's your workflow? I won't go to the hassle of saving an image, opening it in Photoshop, etc., but if there's an easier way...
That's my vote too - a long-hair cat.
Ha! I kept skipping this one. My best guess is either an orange tailless cat or a really ugly Ugg boot.
#Coyote marking a nondescript tree. Take that, Canada geese!
Rolling #coyote
Something looking up at the camera. Raccoon? Tail isn't striped, but too blurred to really tell.
Is that an animal's head sticking out on the left side of the tree? What is it?
Beautiful shot!
I marked this as a bird (owl) since I've seen a small owl in this camera before.
These are cameras that rarely or never have animals. It would be great to reposition or tune those cameras in the future (hint, hint).
If you're interested, I started a collection: Least Productive Cameras - "arthur" is one of them.
Looks like the remains of a dead raccoon at the bottom of the pic.
Coyote convocation!
Something dark on the left - can't really tell what.
#whatsis
A little too dark to be a deer - any guesses?
I thought maybe a #mink .
#bird -- missed it, darn it.
Only mammal I've ever seen in this camera - maybe a #beaver ? Hard to say.
What causes the white blur? I marked it as a bird, but it could just as easily be something climbing the tree.
#owl
Looks like 2 coyotes playing in the grass.
Showdown! I think the #deer on the left has the advantage.
Yep, misidentified it as an opossum.
#raccoon meets #skunk in a #graveyard at night. Cool!
Dead coyote, or sleeping?
Possible #gray-fox . See black patch on top of tail, light colored legs.
Coyote in broad daylight
#woodchuck?
Arsonist?
Unidentifiable round object - is it alive?
oops - missed a rabbit
What is this black/white animal? Not shaped like a skunk. I marked it as a domestic cat.