so you can see if you like it. you can get them for $60 or so. the one issue we have had is running them in bright daylight they will take an image every time a leaf moves, and as the shadow of the sun on things moves. but even cheap ones are great for catching critters at night.

you can spend all kinds of money for all kinds of bells and whistles but see how you like what you have first.

..shouldnt cost much more. We caught LOTS of deer but also a family of cougar going down our driveway at night! Just make sure some two legged creature doesnt steal it.

I bought a couple of Browning Dark Ops HD Pro X trailcams recently, mostly to take pics of the building progress on my addition. I can make a sort of stop motion video out of it when we're done Once we're finished with that I will set them up at different places on the farm to catch wildlife - and maybe trespassers.

So far we've gotten shots of deer, a fox, birds, and some kitties, some at night and a few during the day. The coolest one was on a very foggy night, of a stag whose eyes and antlers made a really neat star effect.

Unless your cameras will be very close to your house, WiFi won't help - you'd need a cellular for that, and that adds a lot to the cost. If you use lithium batteries and a decent size memory card, you can leave the cameras set up for months. Some of the YouTube channels with videos from trailcams leave them for months before changing cards and/or batteries.

Here is a video from one channel I check out often: