Trail Cameras – Woodland wildlife on camera
Our woodland is full of creatures: birds, squirrels and rabbits. We have seen a couple of deer and even a badger, but there is evidence of so many more! The boar dig enormous holes and wallow in the mud, and the badgers are creating homes all over the place. That is why Mike and I decided to invest in a trail camera, we wanted to know what everything was up to at night!
The trail camera is very simple to use - lock it to a tree, programme in your settings (video, photo and length of video) and off you go. The camera uses a motion sensor and infra red at night so it doesn't bother the animals. Every few days we would remove the memory card and check to see what we'd got on the computer.
At first it was mildly dull - well, for others anyway!
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First animal on our trail camera!
But we were pleased to know that the trail camera was working and that pigeons like our spring. We got loads and loads of dog walkers.
And then to our great delight, while filming a badger sett we caught these lovely creatures!
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Fallow deer wandering right through the part we coppiced 2 years ago!
Now we were really excited and took the camera off to another part of the wood to a known wild boar party spot. We were not disappointed. We could see how large the boar are because of the height of the trees nearby and it is brilliant to see so many of them.
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This is a fox appearing first at night, quite clearly, and then later in the daytime (to the right of the frame). There is also a mystery animal that passes very quickly along the brow of the hill on the left. You might want to watch in HQ. Any suggestions as to what it might be?
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We locked the trail camera to a tree to view another busy boar highway and went back a couple of weeks later. Sadly, the camera was gone. Someone had managed to remove it. I guess this will always be one of the frustrations of woodland but we are delighted to have got so many videos of our wild animals!
Tracy and Mike own a small woodland in Rye and also write an excellent blog: http://peplers.blogspot.com
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Hi Malc
We got it from
http://www.iberwolfcamo.com/
He does speak English and is very nice and helpful!
hi there
excellent footage you caught there. i am very impressed. i have been trying to source a dealer for a hco scoutguard and cannot find one anywhere in the uk, may i enquire where you obtained your scoutguard from please?
Glad you enjoyed the videos, we loved watching them too. Not sure about the stoat/ weasel – we did wonder about it, but not sure if we have them in the area. Most likely to be a fox? hmm
The trail camera we had was a ScoutGuard sg550 made by HCO.
Hi Tracey,
Love the footage!
Where would I be able to buy a trail camera?
Hi there,
great videos, especially the boars
Not entirely sure on the mammal running like the clappers, but could well be a stoat or weasel…both being slightly the same length…and fast!
On another note, what was the manufacturer of trail camera?
Nice capture! you’ll never know what’s lurking around you until you setup one of this very useful tools. Whether you’re a game hunter or not, either way you’ll definitely benefit from it.
Keep the footage coming and thanks for sharing.
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9 June, 2010