Thanks for the kind words and I wish you well on your new project. For the remote shutter release it is good just to observe first so you know where to set-up you camera. Then when you notice a pattern of where the animal or birds like to be, you can set it up there. I got these photos using a similar process. My dad had seen something around his bird feeder but didn't know what it was so I set-up a remote trigger through my computer and got this

It was a wood mouse