After last week's unabashedly food oriented post, it's back to what people seem to be interested in - animals!
The trail camera was at the side of a patch of scrub during December, which brought a lot of "exciting" footage of blackbirds and thrushes turning over leaves, the odd sighting of the pine martin and badgers, but the main visitor was a hare who has a lair somewhere in the brambles and whose front path came out by the camera. They are such beautiful creatures!
Anyway, fickle me got bored with blackbirds so I moved the trail camera to by a couple of ponds that are at the bottom of the Orchard, and for a couple of weeks got nothing more exciting than a hunter's bottom (fully clothed I hasten to add), so I moved the camera a short way along the path and waited. Once again I got a fine shot and video of a passing hunter - I really do need to put a warning sign up that they are being filmed. It won't stop them coming through but they can't sue me if I post the film; currently they could.
Anyway, despite the hunters passing through during daylight hours, the boar are knocking around at night time.
The deer are also around and pass through singly or in pairs.
The badgers trundle through - now picking off my phone the videos I want to download isn't easy, and while there is some nice footage, there is some of a limping badger that I wanted to share and this isn't it, but frankly sometimes life is too short on a Sunday!
I hinted that the life of a trail camera isn't totally easy. Ours is currently a challenge to a Great Tit, and keeps getting investigated and attacked by that. Have the sound up if you can too!
And given the fact that the camera is a good meter or more off the ground, if it had been a bit lower, it might not have survived this encounter either!
More excitement from the trail camera next week!
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