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The Backyard

A camera on the back door and enough software to tell the raccoons apart. We know a few of them by name now.

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A raccoon sitting up on the back deck at night, caught on the critter cam

The build, start to finish

  1. A raccoon sitting upright on a stone garden wall in daylight, looking toward the camera.

    Chapter 1

    It started with an opossum

    We moved into a new place, my son spotted an opossum in the yard, and a couple of weeks after I put a camera on the back door my girlfriend called it the best project I have ever made.

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