An Array of Autumn Animals

I haven’t done a camera trap post since June! We have had pigeons, panthers, polar bears, goosanders, doves, starlings, herons, egrets and beavers but not the usual badgers and foxes which I have missed writing about. However, today I have an array of autumn animals (not a week of winter wildlife) on the camera trap to show you (all of the dates and times are wrong due to a change of batteries).

Squirrels 

 First up, we have some squirrel action shots.

Foxes                                                                                                                                                                           

Next, we have a glimpse of a fox at night.

We also have another action shot, along with a video.

Cows

Badger

 

As usual, this badger was sniffing the camera.

Mouse

Roe Deer

We have had MORE deer! This is the 4th time we have had them, the 3rd ones this year and the second time we have more than one in one video. We have a nice little selection of photos to show here.

Can you spot it in this photo?

Here are some videos - watch them all until the end as sometimes that's when the deer come in.

That is all for today's post. Remember to leave a comment and thanks for reading!

An Exciting Post

 Recently I have been hinting that something very exciting is coming to the blog. Unlike most posts where I save the best until last, this time we will start with the best.

Can you guess from these pictures what the animal is?

Lots of trees being taken down must be the work of one of the busiest mammals. The beaver. Beavers have been introduced to Trentham Gardens recently. So I had to go down and see if I could spy one of these elusive creatures. We walked all around the lake and found it hard to see them. But some mysterious bubbles and a big splash gave away their hiding place by the river bank. There were several of them under the water there - you could tell from the amount of bubbles they were making.

Every now and then they would stick a tiny bit of their tail out of the water.

Then, they suddenly stuck a huge amount of their tail out, nearly the whole thing!

It may look like a shark fin, but I can assure you this is a beaver tail. At one point it stuck it's tail out for around 30 seconds!

Unfortunately, that was all we got to see of them. It was still very exciting though. 

There you have it; one of Britain's rarest mammals.

But that is not the end of the post. Trentham Gardens has lots more great wildlife to offer. 

Such as another grey heron (the last post had loads of herons and egrets - check it out if you haven't already). 

Waterfowl such as the Australian black swan (also new to the blog) are abundant here. 

Mute swan family:

Even goosanders (also featured in a recent post) showed up.

That is all for today. I haven't done a camera trap post recently - don't worry, the next one will be out on Saturday 30th of September at 10 a.m! Don't forget to leave a comment on your thoughts about this post. Thanks for reading! 

More Wildlife from Italy

  I'm back in England now and I can share even more Italian creatures with you. We have some fantastic heron and egret footage coming later in the post. Here is a wonderful picture to put you on before the rest.

 Little egrets are a great new addition to the blog! More on them later.

First, we have some collared dove photos to show.

Next, some starlings.

Finally, we have the herons and egrets.

Some great shots of several little egrets coming up.

Then the egret flew to the ground.

After a few minutes, it started to fish. However, when some more egrets came down things got a bit chaotic. 

Over the other side of the river was a huge heronry, with both egrets and grey herons. 

To get an idea of what the area was like, here is a zoomed-out shot. 

Here are the close-ups.

 

Little egrets and grey herons are both fantastic birds. However, if you look in the top left of this next photo (next to a heron with its wings spread out) you will see what looks like an egret with an orange beak. This bird is much bigger than the little egrets; it is the same size as a grey heron. This bird is a much rarer, great egret. 

That is all for this post. Recently, I have been dropping hints about something very exciting. That post will be released next Wednesday, at 5 p.m. UK time. Thanks for reading!