00:00So hello again my friends.
00:03I have come to this little kiosk at the edge of the lake to do an unboxing, which will be
00:12my first unboxing and basically a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago now actually, I
00:22was approached by a company that make trail cameras, well trail cameras at least, they're
00:32called Aplan, I'm not sure what the company is called, and they asked me if I would review,
00:38do a video review of one of their trail cams.
00:43It's one of the budget end, so I think it's priced about £65 in the UK on Amazon, which
00:56is about, I guess just under $100 in American money, and it is the H60 trail camera from
01:09Ape Man, and it features 20 megapixel photos, with 1080p full HD video, a 120 degree detection
01:21angle and 65 foot trigger distance, what else it has, wide angle lens, and it also includes
01:33an SD card, a micro SD, which is pretty cool, so I'll just open this up and see what we
01:38have.
01:39So we have the usual user manual and a couple of little bits of paper.
01:45So I should state that this camera has been given to me for free, I haven't been paid anything
01:51extra for this review, and from my correspondence with them I am allowed to say things how I find
02:02them, so I will be as honest as I can.
02:04And I don't think it will disappoint.
02:06I mean for £65 it's on the budget end, like I said, of cameras, so I'm sure it will perform
02:15nicely.
02:16And so we have in the package a strap for tying around trees and things, there is a charging
02:26cable I guess, or a download cable, and a mounting plate for mounting it on trees again and being
02:36able to change angle etc, you can screw it on to something, you can see the SD card in here,
02:43it's supposed to have an SD, there it is, and a little micro SD card as well.
02:51So, first inspection, it looks like a pretty standard little trail camera.
03:05It is waterproof, and it has a pretty standard layout inside menu and screen, where you can
03:16access the menu and the settings.
03:20And it also has, which I've just noticed, a nice little drawstring for the battery cover.
03:31So just pull on the little string here, and it opens up the battery cover which is brilliant,
03:38because my other one doesn't have that little string, and you need really long nails to try
03:45and get in there and try and wedge it open, which I don't have, and I always find it difficult
03:50to actually hook that latch and pull that cover over open, but with this little bit of string
03:59makes it very simple.
04:01So I'll set this up, and what I'm going to do, I'm going to place three cameras
04:07out today.
04:10One for fox, one for wildcat, and one which is, I'm going to replace the one that I had
04:19set up last spring along the stream, to see if the animals that I captured back then, which
04:27was a jackal, a fox and a badger, or a couple of jackals actually, see if they're still around
04:33and still using that route.
04:35And if they are, I might in the next couple of weeks set up the camera trap to try and
04:41get a decent shot of them as well.
04:55Now that I'm going to link to this picture, the mirror clip is a nice thing to see if there's
04:58a
04:58nice guy that looks like that's some kind.
04:59So, I'm going to use this picture to start a little bit, but I'll get the picture
04:59that you have to do.
04:59Thanks for watching.
04:59Hey, guys.
04:59You got to see the other camera.
05:00Thanks for watching.
05:01It's such a cool thing.
05:04Now, we're going to check.
05:04How are you doing?
05:10And I'm going to show you now that you're doing this.
05:23So I'm going to choose English, set clock, and it is 2021, February,
05:4411, okay, format, yes, so that's a very simple way of setting up the camera, let's go in
05:57and choose photo mode, camera, video, or camera plus video, we just want video I
06:10think, photo size, let's go for maximum photo size, video size, 1080p, serial number is
06:27off, side peer is on, peer sensitivity is high, we don't want that, we want to set it at medium,
06:34so it's not being set off with all sorts of things, beep sound, let's turn that off, volume
06:49record, let's record volume, and that's it.
06:56And the camera is set up, that simply, amazing, okay, so really simple to set up, I'm going
07:05to switch it off for the moment to save batteries, close it up, and let's go find somewhere to
07:15set the camera.
07:18So the first place I'm going to set up, I had come to this spot here, which is a little
07:22kiosk, right next to the river, er, river of the lake, and I had come here to do a time
07:28lapse of the mountains opposite, which you can't see at the moment, because they're all covered
07:32in cloud, and as I was doing the time lapse, it was a freezing cold day, and I jumped back
07:39in the car to stay warm whilst the camera was running, and no sooner had I done that,
07:44this little fox jumped out of the hedges back here, and he just sat here and let me photograph
07:50him, and I'll show you a photo of that now, of him, and I think, basically this spot here,
07:58you will see this little hut that somebody has made, um, was on behalf of a stray dog and
08:06her puppies, and they were, they basically built this little hut for them, in the middle
08:13of nowhere, and they would come out occasionally and feed them I guess, and it is now all abandoned,
08:19and I'm guessing that because of the, um, the food that they would bring, it also attracted
08:27the fox, er, out here, and apart from that, apart from the food that they were leaving for
08:34the dogs that I think might have attracted the fox here, it's also, there's a path that
08:40winds, this path winds its way down to the lakeside, and it's probably where he might try
08:46and grab a bird for dinner, I'm thinking. Anyway, we'll, I'll set the camera trap up, and, er,
08:55we'll trap the trail cam, and, um, see if we get anything in a few days time.
09:06Interesting discoveries I've crawled through, um, there's a little, like, almost where he's
09:13dug out, here, and made a bed for himself, in the straw, and I think there's more, another
09:23one back there as well. So, what I might do is, um, find a location here, on one of these
09:35trees to put the, um, the trail cam, and, er, see if we get lucky.
10:04And the camera's set up. Okay, let's hope that works, and I'll be back
10:12in a couple of days, to see if we manage to record anything. Okay, let's try and get
10:18out of here now. Okay, so I've reached the second location that I want to set up the camera.
10:28This one is for, um, Wildcat. So, I thought I might try and set up a camera in this gorge,
10:39which you can see behind me, in this little, um, it's a dry stream at the moment. And, er,
10:48see if we get lucky. Before I do, I'm gonna have a wander up and down and see if I
10:52might
10:52spot some tracks of any kind, er, that will give me a clue as to if it is being used,
11:00er,
11:01by the cat, or not. So, bear with me whilst I go on a little hunt.
11:21Okay, I found two prints. But they're just that prints, not tracks. Which look like they
11:30could be a cat. But everything is washed away, and what I did find, ooh, that's interesting.
11:41There's a rather deep hole here. But I can't see any markings around it to say that it's been
11:56used at all. Okay, so here's some more prints. So there's something about in the sand. Some
12:22more here. Which is a little bit further down than where I had planned to set the camera
12:34trap. Because this location here is a little bit exposed. Okay. So I've decided to use this
12:49tree, which gives me a pretty wide view over this little gully here as it opens up. And
12:56I shall try and camouflage the camera as best I can.
13:19I shall try and camouflage the camera. No greenery. Bushes and things to wrap around and
13:49disguise it. So this will have to do. That is now on. Okay, so that's two trail cams set up.
14:10And
14:11now I'm off to the one that I had set up, I can't remember, almost two years ago. And I'm
14:19going to go now, in spring, along one of the canals. And just on the one night that I had
14:28let it out, because it was on the last night that I set it out, I spotted, it captured a
14:39couple of jackals, a fox and a badger. So I'm going to go and set the trail cam up there
14:47again. And see if I'm lucky again. And if they're still using that fallen branch across the stream.
14:59This is winter though, so that habits may have changed. I'm not sure. So anyway, I'll set the
15:08camera up there and we'll see what it captures if I think. So I shall catch up with you again,
15:16down by the stream.
15:40I'll see you again.
15:50Bye.
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17:04The little tunnel through the brush where the animals were coming through is just here.
17:16So you can see it in there, and that leads directly to the crossing.
17:31So, again there's a few tracks around, it's all a bit muddled because the buffalo herds
17:38have been through here as well, so there's lots of buffalo marks, but I have seen some
17:43paw prints too, as well as hoof prints.
17:47Now that could be dog, the dogs that go along with the herds of buffalo, but it's just as
17:56likely to be jackal.
18:09There's also a smaller hoof print there which looks like it could be like a sheep or something.
18:16Anywho, I shall set up the trail cam on the other side of all this bramble, pointing back
18:28at the crossing log there, and see what we might see in a couple of days' time.
18:37So, let me just go do that, and I'll be back with you again.
19:17We'll see you again.
19:44That's set up, I'll just give you a quick look back through the brambles here.
19:50So we have the camera just down here, and this is the branch that they were crossing
19:58on last year from the other side of the stream, and with any luck it should hopefully record
20:09something again.
20:18So I shall leave that for a few days, and come back and see if we got lucky, so I
20:27shall catch
20:28up with you then.
20:29See you in a couple of days.
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