More water trough pics.....Tom Green County

[Smart]

To piggyback off Radars thread, I've been meaning to do a thread for awhile since I saw the first ones of his a year or so ago. I really like to see trough pics myself as it brings out animals you don't always catch on trail camera.

My trough is technically a giant black tub in my best feedpen bought at TSC .....and kept filled by 550 gallons of water totes we fill when needed. These are from Mid July to late August when they use the most water and that they did. They and the sun emptied all 550 gallons a few days or so before I got there. 4000 pics and I pulled the best ones.

Anyway on with the pics....I'll have to do multiple posts.


Porcupines and some turf wars with coons, deer and skunks.. I need to whack these as the LO wants them all gone because they are hell on their horses and cows. It started out as one but I guess he went and got his girlfriends or buddies to eat the scrap protein and drink some good water. We are up to three now here. As you can see they kinda rule the roost.





























Couple of hawks...not sure what either are so maybe yall could help me out. I do know the little bastage or one like him was dive bombing my turkey decoys in a field up the road some. Dive bombing and raising all kinds of squealing racket. Its a good thing they are protected. He was cruising for a bruising..

























Some miscellaneous critters like skunks and squirrels..

[ClayW]

Thats pretty dang cool!

[Smart]

I swear you trap 5 and a momma shows up with 5 more to replace them the day after we leave. It's like cloclwork...just like now. I've got a big family group taking advantage of the free spa evidently. No no folks just make yourself at home!.. I bet I lose 25% of my water to wet coons swimming in this oasis..

[SaltwaterSlick]

Yep Jason, I'd say you definitely have a coon problem!! Time for the painted Duke's n some moon pies...

[Smart]

Lots and lots of roadrunner pics....I think I have a pic of a pair in here somewhere..

[Dakota7493]

Poor critters get to drink coon bath water!!

[kcmarullo]

You have some serious problems !!

[Smart]

Won't bore you with the many deer pics... but I do have a few I'll share from July and early Aug

[Shane]

Cool pics, Jason! That big 8 is a stud.

[Backwoods101]

Very cool pics. Must be a good sized pen, I don't see any fencing.

[Smart]

I also had a deer that looks like a coyote ripped off the front of her lower jaw and pieces of it seem to be hanging. You can see her tongue works fine in some of the pics but she can't eat right. I have pics of her trying to eat corn on my Covert but evidently she couldn't eat enough. Also looks like her face caught some gangrene type issues because it turned almost black and basically killed her in my pen. I guess it was a last ditch effort to get over my feedpen fence and give it a shot because she didn't make it out after getting in. She spent a few days in it as best that I could tell, drinking and trying to eat what she could....but she bedded up at the far end of my pen and as you will see they buzzards found her and my water. Very sad either way. Horrible way to go. She was so thin she was like a doormat when we found her a few days after the buzzards finished while filling feeders.













And here comes the cleanup crew stopping by for a drink.

[Smart]

Well that will do it... for this round......hope you enjoy them..

[Mexico]

Nice Jason! You got some great looking bucks!

[Shane]

That's a rough way to go for that doe.

I've been seeing this sika doe that lost her eye somehow. Nasty stuff oozing out of it, and her head turned white and is all swollen. Right eye is dark in infrared pics.

Mesquite thorn or snake bite, I'm guessing. We'll see if she makes it.

[Smart]

More water trough pics.....Tom Green County

Yep Jason, I'd say you definitely have a coon problem!! Time for the painted Duke's n some moon pies...

You have some serious problems !!

We trap every time we go out in the offseason.. They just keep making more. That big group is one momma and 4 kits. We are at 312 coons since 5/2015...although the numbers caught are getting lower and lower.

Hard to believe that many coons came off this place and there are still plenty more. Lucky they can only get what is on the ground in our setups. No more coonfingering with my Lamco and directionals.

Poor critters get to drink coon bath water!!

And no telling what else!