On a typical night after my wife goes to bed early I will take the dog out in the yard with a decent flashlight to relieve myself at the edge of the patio. Looking up at the starts as I go. Listening to the woods I usually only hear the trucks on the interstate, the wind blowing through the trees, and occasionally an owl. This night I heard something way off to the left.
So I went into the house and grabbed my night vision camera and IR flashlight to light of the woods. I had just mounted it on a new rach and clipped it into the tripod and noticed a flaw in my setup. I had mounted the camcorder inside a u shaped rack with 2 flashlights above it for fill lighting, one white and one IR. However the camera was mounted mid way up its length to the rack. This prevented the door on the left of the camera from opening up and properly turning on the view screen so I could see what I was doing. As I struggled with the screws to dismount the camcorder I hear the sound moving from left to right. The sound was very similar too the Ohio howl sound recorder in Salt Fork park Ohio. But this sound was very brief almost as if it were an owl moving through the woods. It seemed to be paralleling route 82 north of my house moving left to right stopping occasionally to hoot. If it were following 82 it would have moved almost a mile across my field of view. Eventually the noise stopped, just as I got the camera working. I took some more video of the typical night sounds. I packed up the camera and went back in the house. Immediately I went to Amazon to order some brackets so I could properly use my camera ont he new rack. I even found my omnidirectional microphone which came with the night vision camcorder, mounted it properly with a fuzzy wind guard. Everything is all set, batteries charged, cera door clearance double checked, and test video taken.
Everything is ready for my next night adventure into my back yard.
