Top Quality Badgers

 My blog has been lacking something lately. And that's good quality badger footage. However, in the last week of January I've had some of the best footage since the fight. Usually you don't see much of the badgers as they have their nose right up to the camera but this week we have had some nice footage of them where you get a much better view. Most notably was the first night when we got this footage:

We also got loads of fox footage on the first night.

More foxes on the second night.

Even more on the third night:

We got loads of jays in the day:

In the night we also got a few more badgers.

A few more jays in the day:

Another fox at night:

And a very speedy badger:

If you remember a few weeks ago, we got a new bird on the camera called a redwing. We got a few more this week.

Next to pass the camera was another speedy badger, this time appearing from the left.

It was out at eight o'clock, which in my experience is quite early for badgers. We did get another badger this morning, but its so close to the camera that you can barely see anything so i'm not going to put it on.

I hope you enjoyed this week's post. Remember to leave a comment and thanks for reading.

Big Garden Birdwatch 2025

 Hi everyone, sorry that I didn't post on the weekend, think of this as last week's post. For Christmas I got a smart bird feeder (a bird feeder with a camera inside) which I have had out over the past month. I also had it out over the big garden birdwatch 2025, although the only bird I had to contribute was a woodpigeon. Here is some of the footage I got.

Seeing as there was not much on the camera over the last few days, here are my favourite videos and pictures from the last month.

This was one of the first pigeons I got. It is quite a funny photo.

My favourite bird we have had was a blue tit.

We got a few pigeons in the frost.

And even in the snow.

The final thing in this post is a female blackbird.

That is all for today's post. Hopefully there should be a camera trap post out on the weekend as it is out in the woods now. Remember to leave a comment and thanks for reading.

A Quiet Day at Tittesworth Resevoir

 Hi everyone, in this week's post I go searching for birds at Tittesworth Resevoir. There wasn't anything on the conservation lake so I turned to the main lake to see what I could spot. It was very quiet and gloomy. Unfortunatley there didn't seem to be much on the main lake either. The island was flooded but there was a cormarant perched a beam sticking out of the water. 

There were also two dead fish wich I did record, but I'm not going to show you for obvious reasons.

What I am going to show you is a flock of tufted ducks.

There were a lot of GC grebes about too.

The final bird we recorded was a bit of a strange one. It was a duck, and like the ringed teal at the end of last year it had seemingly escaped from captivity. Unlike the ringed teal, I don't think you can find these ducks native in the wild as I think it is a domestic duck. After doing a little bit of research, I am pretty sure that it is either an aylsebury or pekin duck (domestic breeds). Unless I know for sure, I am just going to refer to it as a domestic duck. It was also with two mallards.

That's all for this week's post. I am going to try and upload every week from now on, although I can't promise that I will. I should be able to upload at least once every two weeks but again, that might not always happen. Anyway, I will try and stick to a schedule of uploading on the weekends most weeks.

Remember to leave a comment and thanks for reading.

Snow Week

 Hi everyone, much has happened in the last week, including heavy snowfall and even 4 lynx being dumped in Scotland. However, the snow hasn't detered action on the camera trap, and we have had plenty of amazing footage, including a new species! Let's see what we got...

Saturday

I put the camera out in the same spot as last post, and that night we got a little bit of fox action. They must have been after the food I put out.

Sunday

Sunday morning the snow started to pour. The foxes also came back. I know it wasn't just one, because we got our third video of two foxes at the same time. 

A few hours later, we got some amazing footage of a fox eating the food I left out. I've picked out the best videos.

The sun rose, and the first thing we got was one of many sheep. I am not going to put all the sheep videos on because we got loads, so this is probably the only one.

The next animal to pass by was our first daylight fox of 2025. It is some of my favourite fox footage we have had yet.

20 minutes later it (or another one) came back.

At 12:PM we also got a Jay. It came back at 2:PM.

Another fox passed by on Sunday night, but only very shortly.

Monday

A jay in the afternoon:

A fox at night:

Tuesday

Sadly, this fox seemed to be limping. It is fox mating season, (as you could see the two foxes earlier were probably male and female) and it could have got in a scrap with another fox.

The snow came again, and we got another jay.

The snow came again later in the day.

We also got our first new species of 2025. A flock of wintering redwings had flown over from either Scandinavia, other parts of northern mainland Europe, or Iceland. I have actually never even seen one before, so it was a nice suprise getting a flock of them on the camera. They are also quite nomadic, and won't usually return to the same spot every winter. We got better footage a few days later so don't worry if you can't see them very well.

Wednesday

The next day there was a crowd of birds in front of my camera. There were the blue and orange (very small, creeping around the floor) nuthatches, great tits and the redwings were back again. In this photo you can see the redwing right in front of the camera.

Thursday

It unexpectedly snowed heavily again on Thursday morning. We got more redwings, such as this one on the left.

Here is some more footage.

On Thursday, we got another daylight fox, but this time it was in the snow!

A fox also appeared in the evening.

Friday

Blackbird:

That was everything we got this week. I know it has been a long post, so thanks for reading to the end.

We got loads of really cool stuff this week including the redwings, two foxes and the foxes at day. So if you enjoyed this post, remember to leave a comment and thanks for reading!

Festive Foggy Foxes

 Hi everyone, despite this being the first proper post of 2025, all the footage was captured on the camera trap over Christmas. I did have it out over New Year's Day and the second of January but unfortunately we didn't get anything (you will find out why). Also, if you read the last post, you would know that we tried out an old spot which we had only tried once but produced some good footage (see that post by clicking here). Let's see what we got over the festive period.

Christmas Eve

Over Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, it was really foggy and sadly that interfered with the infared at night. It was a shame, because we got loads of fox footage which would have been even better without the fog. I've picked out some of the better footage to show you.

Christmas Day

Fox in the morning:

The fog had cleared a bit by the afternoon.

Boxing Day

Two roe deer come in from the left:

My favourite animal we got on Boxing day was actually not the deer but a jay which we got a nice video of.

27th December

Can you see the sheep? Probably not but it is quite deep into the woods in the center of the screen.

You will definitely be able to see it here:

The last thing we got was a badger. You can probably tell why it was the last thing.

Once I'd finished looking through the camera I looked up and realised one of the sheep had been looking at me the whole time. I think I spooked it and it ran off into the woods.

To say we got all of that footage in four days I think it is definitely a spot I am going to use a lot more this year. It is just a shame the badger knocked over the camera otherwise we probably would have got loads more footage. 

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