November Foxes

 We caught 2 foxes in the same video!

Deer in the Dean

 We were lucky to get a fallow deer in the Forest of Dean.

More Footage From The Forest of Dean

 In the Forest of Dean, we got two muntjac deer passing by.

We don’t know what this mystery animal was. Any guesses?

Slimbridge

 

Moorhen Chicks on the canal

We were on the way to the pub when we saw a family of moorhens on the canal. Unlike our other photos we took these on a phone camera rather than the camera trap. 

Cow Catastrophe

We thought we found a really nice spot...but this is what we got...........

Night Fox

Last night we got video footage of our first fox at night. 

I put the camera trap in an open wood next to a calm clearing. 

Other sightings this week.....

This week we also manged to capture some new birds we've not seen before as well as the usual sightings of squirrels and mice. 

Here is a great close up picture of a magpie.

Next we have a video of a beautiful pheasant. 

Extreme Close-up of a Badger sighting!

 This week we put the camera trap out in the same area where we captured the pictures of the fox. 

This time instead of a fox we got a badger coming ate at night when I was asleep at 10:48pm. It came to have a good sniff of the camera because Badgers rely more on their sense of smell than their eyesight. 

Look how close it got to the camera! The full video is below:

Calm Clearing - 2 rainy days in June

Over the last two stormy days we decided to try and put the camera trap in a new place.  

We jumped over our usual style, dodged the cow-pats in the field and found a new spot tucked away from the footpaths. 

In a small wooded area we found a really calm clearing that looked perfect.   On the first day we laid the trap low in a damp, boggy patch.  We were delighted to catch a fox and a squirrel here. 

click to see the big picture

On day 2 we moved the camera slightly up a small bank and were lucky to capture a fox again, a Jay, and a magpie.

Robin & the mouse

Badger sighting

On the second night out with the camera trap, I was lucky to catch this sighting of a badger. 

Here's a picture too. 

Steady Fox

Wednesday 10th June 2020

Birds in my garden