I honestly do not know if I will be able to put the pumpkin out front and if I do how long it will last. The squirrel has already been back to it several times. We were able to catch it in the act once. The quality of the picture is not very good. We took it with a telephoto lens from inside the house through a double pane window. So to make up for the lack of visual quality, I gussied up the picture.