The morning of the 28th was set up exactly like the morning of the 27th - everything was left outside, as to not disturb anything that might scare the squirrels (or anything else) away, the cameras were left out, everything was the same… except this time, I had the panheads set up! Now if the squirrels tried to do what they did on the morning of the 27th, I could get closer to what they were doing! And they did come! … and they did try the same kind of thing that they did on the 27th! … but …
In my haste of putting everything out for the 2nd project of the 27th, I didn’t think of the slack on the wires going to the whole setup - what does that mean, you ask? If I move the panhead slightly, the wires going to the camera bounce back and forth, making the whole setup look like a big giant animal (I think like a squirrel, or bird, or raccoon, what have you, when I set stuff up, because I can usually guarantee that if I don’t find it secure looking, they won’t either) and they’d be scared off… and that’s mainly what happened… The squirrels tried to get under the bag (just as they did the day before), but my wires eventually freaked them out enough to leave the whole area. Not only that, but my inexperience with doing 2 panhead setups at once shows amazingly in this video (especially in the beginning!) I went to zoom in on the front-facing shot, only to have the the shot zoomed too far in and panned too far to the right - the other shot was fine, but that shot was screwed up for about 2 minutes before I finally went back and fixed it!

 

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