Let's have a look what we got on the camera trap last week (I picked it up because it was raining all week anyway).
First up we got a few jays:
On the first night we got this amazing footage of my favourite, the badger. It seems to be eating up the food I put out. Also, if you listen carefully, you can hear some really noisy tawny owls in the distace.
The next day we got a few jays and even these two buzzards flying over a few seconds into the video:
But it is the next day when we get our first deer, the stag in front of the camera and the doe a bit further off. Like last time, they are out really early in the morning at 5:AM. It seems to have shed the velvet on it's antlers which usually takes under 24 hours once the antlers are fully grown. However, the male also seems to be marking its territory by weeing by my camera. This could mean that they are prepared to stay here all summer again, something that happened last year, and they appeared much more than in 2023, and 2022 when they first came to the woods.
An hour later we got this squirrel:
We only got another squirrel in the next few days up until this morning (it's April 13th at the time of writing this - the post won't come out until the 18th) when we got some great footage of the stag again (at 5:AM as well). This time however, I can't see the doe but is likely that she isn't too far away and is probably just behing the tree or somewhere like that.
That's all for this week's post. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens this year with the deer. They usually have fawns in late spring to early summer so who knows what will happen...
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