Fox Visitor

Wow - best part of a month since I last wrote anything. Not that there has been much of real interest to inspire me until now. I was idly checking through last night's video captures when I spotted this fleeting visit:



Not sure whether its coat shows signs of mange or whether it is wet for some reason. On checking my other cameras I see it explored most of the garden. The Hedgehog had been in the Hedgehog House but had left about five minutes before the Fox arrived.

Muntjac Deer in the Garden

Imagine my surprise when checking through the trail camera captures and seeing some clips of a Muntjac deer ambling round the garden. Looks as though it spent a good half hour there. Then it was followed shortly after by a visiting fox. Misty video as the lens fogs when the temperature approaches 0C.



One thing is for sure - a fenced garden is no barrier to curious and determined wildlife.

Fox Daytime Visit

I was quite surprised to see the trail camera had caught a daylight visiting fox.



It can obviously smell the food I put in the Hedgehog house. The vido clip was very short so I slowed it down to half speed.

While Humans Sleep

Some more video clips from the trail cameras with a cameo appearance from the four legged boss.



I set up a camera inside the hedgehog house to video one feeding. It worked - but - suddenly the interference, video distortion, I was having last Summer has started again. It seems to be a 100Hz constant signal of some sort. Very puzzling. It is affecting three out of five cameras which are powered from 12V power supply wall warts. I will try running the 'feeding' camera from a 12V battery to see whether that clears things up. If it does then there is a fair chance the problem is transmitted through the mains supply. Strange that it hasn't shown up at all throughout the Winter.

More Foxy Visits

At last - some video of the fox visiting my back garden at night. A compilation of several 12 second captures from the trail camera. No sound.



Looks as though it is finding insects to eat.

Foxy

Getting to be a regular:



I had the trail camera set to take three stills and video. It would appear the video starts after the photos have been taken so any visiting wildlife tends to be well away from the camera in any video shots. Now I have it set to take only video so maybe next time Foxy visits we may actually see it move.

Bright Eyed and Bushy Tailed

When I read a short while ago that Ragged Robin had installed a trail camera it reminded me to put a new set of batteries in mine and fix it up again. Going through the few captures it made this week I see that we had a night visitor a couple of times.



Most of the captures are of Penny watering the garden or local cats so it was great to see some real wild life visit. Unfortunately the camera was only set to take still photos. I have now altered the settings so it will take short video clips as well as stills.

Fleeting Visit

Night Visitor

Checking for any captures on the trail camera I see a fox made another visit to the back garden





I hope next door's chickens are well secured at night.

Night Visitor

Every so often I put out the Floureon trail camera to see what night life there may be about.

 

Until the latest session there was little of note to be seen. This time, on just one night over the couple of weeks it was operating, it captured something different. I know there are foxes about and felt sure they must visit my garden occasionally. Here at last is the proof.





and half an hour later







Since then I have cut down much of the long grass.
Pure coincidence I did that on the same day the fox visited.






I don't put the camera out very often as it uses eight AA batteries.
Batteries work in two banks of four.
I must rig up a permanent 6V supply for it.
Then I can set it to take short video clips as well as stills.
Also I will fix it lower down to have a better view of smaller creatures.
This old camera has only 5M pixels and responds in 1 second.
I see many of the latest ones have a 12 - 16M pixel camera and a response time of less than 0.5 second. Tempting - if I get more night visitors.