What was it?

[cmom]

I live in Florida also, I have a trail camera and some traps I plan on putting out tonight. I’m about 20 miles south of Jacksonville, in Bayard...where are you?

West of Ocala.

 

[Stacyoung13]

West of Ocala.

We lived in Salt Springs before work brought us up here.

 

[Stacyoung13]

I got nothing...not in the trap or on camera!!! Maybe the fireworks scared it?? I will be trying again tonight!!!

 

[HotSauce1271]

Raccoon would be my guess. They are very skittish so can be easily frightened away and will abandon a kill.

 

[cmom]

Don't give up because it might not have come around or was out of the camera view. It was probably full from the previous night. I didn't get much on my cameras last night. Several years ago, I had a bobcat kill a bunch of birds. It didn't come back the next night but did come back the following night and I got it. Here we have mostly coyotes.

 

[Stacyoung13]

Don't give up because it might not have come around or was out of the camera view. It was probably full from the previous night. I didn't get much on my cameras last night. Several years ago, I had a bobcat kill a bunch of birds. It didn't come back the next night but did come back the following night and I got it. Here we have mostly coyotes.
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I’m not giving up until I catch it!!!

 

[cmom]

I put out some live traps and baited them for awhile and let the predators get used to them without them going off and when they do get used to them I set the traps. We are rural but more and more people are selling off some of their property and people building and moving in. The people across the street have 20 acres and have subdivided 10 acres in to some parcels. I have caught a couple of cats that I released and have also seen some dogs but I did get the fox that killed my very special bird.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I put out some live traps and baited them for awhile and let the predators get used to them without them going off and when they do get used to them I set the traps. We are rural but more and more people are selling off some of their property and people building and moving in. The people across the street have 20 acres and have subdivided 10 acres in to some parcels. I have caught a couple of cats that I released and have also seen some dogs but I did get the fox that killed my very special bird.

I feel like I’ve seen these pictures before. Could be me though.

 

[cmom]

No, I have posted them before. I love to take pictures so I have several cameras around on my property. Some of them I move around. My point being that a predator most likely can be caught. I had seen the fox multiple times around the traps during the day. Somehow it would still steal some of the bait when I had the traps set so I set them a little lighter and caught it.