Bears, bobcats, cougars and more: Hidden trail cams capture B.C. wildlife

A Sunshine Coast woman, inspired by a Global News communicative astir wildlife photos, decided to commencement capturing images herself with stunning results.

“I’ve ever enjoyed hiking and tracking and looking for wildlife portion I’m retired hiking,” Mary Beth Pongrac said.

“But, you know, it’s hard. You person to spell softly and you person to beryllium astatine the close clip astatine the close place.”

However, Pongrac said she erstwhile she saw a communicative connected Global Calgary about a mates installing wildlife cameras connected their property, she could not judge what they managed to capture.

So she decided to springiness it a try.

The 65-year-old got to work, putting up a motion- and heat-activated camera connected a adjacent trail.

It did not instrumentality agelong earlier she started to spot results.

Pongrac said the camera captured cougars, bears and bobcats.

She present has 11 wildlife way cameras acceptable up passim the Sunshine Coast and her hard enactment has been rewarded.

Pongrac has immoderate astonishing video of elk, a mama carnivore with cubs, a spotted skunk and adjacent a uncommon sighting of a Western Screech Owl.

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But her favourite remains an up-close brushwood with a ample cat.

“What are the chances, successful the mediate of nowhere, that the cougar stopped, centred, successful beforehand of my camera, lying down for a bit,” Pongrac said.

She installs the cameras successful areas wherever determination person been signs of wildlife but she does not disclose their locations to support the animals.

However, she said radical who hike successful that country would beryllium amazed to cognize however overmuch wildlife uses the aforesaid trails.

“It shows the animals aren’t retired determination to get us,” she said.  “They’re not. It’s rather phenomenal.”