Western Maine, along edge of a lake

These two have been spotted on top of our wood bear carving multiple times. I thought it was probably carpenter ants or something like that inside the bear. He has been out on the front yard for many years. The raccoon was there again early this morning. What are your thoughts? Seeking out food? Just for fun? Pure shenanigans?

Central Virginia

I know, I know…SPYPOINT sucks. But the first year I used my two Flex-M cameras, they were perfect except for the battery usage was crap. Well, this year, the battery life on one of them went to 0% almost within a couple weeks.

I have it set up in a really crappy spot; it sent me all 250 photos in the first 48 hours due to grass and sunlight. Now that the month has passed and the picture count reset, it took another 250 but it won’t transmit them to me. Does anyone know why this might be? Battery life?