Badger Visitor

Was contacted by a lady in Dunstable who had found a hole dug in one of her borders, and had noticed

bumble bees flying out of the hole. A badger was the suspected culprit so went to visit and with permission set up the trail camera up at the top end of her garden where signs showed the animal passed this way. Picked up the camera next morning and this is one of four clips of the badger caught on camera. The lady concerned though not to keen on the hole being dug in her garden and the bumble bee nest being raided was keen on wildlife and looked forward to showing the video clips to her grandchildren which I had saved for her on CD.

The Hedgehog & the Moggie

Some more mammal interaction from our garden. This time involving a hedgehog and a moggie. Looked like the moggie had thought the hedgehog might be worth pouncing on but wisely

thought better of it.

More Fox & Hedgehog clips plus Cat chasing Fox away

Some more video footage in our back garden showing hedgehog and this time the female fox feeding in same area and taking little notice of each other.

This clip shows the female collecting the biscuits that are treated with a homoeopathic sarcoptic mange remedy. On the Sunday night she ate the biscuits on the spot. Its difficult to know whether when collecting them she is taking them back for cubs or hiding the food for later consumption. On this occasion she returned shortly after with the biscuits still held in her mouth again on another clip a short while later (not shown here) without.

Interesting moment here the clip goes straight into an interaction with a neighbours cat who takes objection to the fox in its considered territory and chases the fox out of our garden.

The trailcam had was set up attached to a iron washing line post and showing in this clip is a daylight picture covered during the past few nights. We currently have a pair of Robins who's chicks have fledged and you can see on of the fledgling's being fed on the birdbath. Have tried to make the garden wildlife friendly with pond, a small meadow area currently full of cowslips and plants to attract butterflies, bees and other insects. We have hedgehog boxes around the garden with one in use. Planted a mixed hedgerow to the right of this picture a number of years ago and have planted firethorn as a berry source for birds.

Close encounter between a Fox and Hedgehog

Set up my newly purchased trailcam in our Garden on Saturday 5th May for its first trial and it provided
a number results during the night including one I was not prepared for, a close encounter between an hedgehog and a fox. The hedgehog approaches the fox with caution but ends up feeding along side the fox which just ignores its presence. On further footage shortly after the hedgehog was feeding on its own coming to no harm with its encounter with the fox. Unlike the female fox in the footage below this fox did not have mange and I think its possibly male but not sure.

Female Fox, visitor to our garden

Female Fox visited out garden on a few occassions during the night, seen here feeding on cat food put out to entice in front of the trailcam. You will note by the lack of fur on the tail that she has mange but take a closer look at the footage wher she turns and see if you can spot she is lactating.