Wildlife at Night (Video)

Wildlife Camera

A few weeks ago we noticed that some of our hedging plants were being eaten by something. The hedging was only planted in the spring and although it has become established and is growing well it is still quite short, some of the plants are only a couple of feet tall. The hazel and plum were the main targets and they seemed to be eaten from the lower branches upwards so we ruled out deer activity. In an attempt to discover our intruder we bought a little wildlife camera and I thought I share a little post showing what we caught on camera (you might need to expand it to full screen to see it!).

You can just see a pair of eyes at the bottom of the picture where the branches are moving and then a hop hop along the hedge line. Yes, it looks like our culprit is a rabbit. Hopefully it won't take too much of the hedge so it will grow next spring.

We also manage to get a couple of pictures of our local fox, another very good reason to make sure the chickens are locked up safely at night. Finn did spot the fox one day who seemed pretty surprised to be challenged by a black lab in the field and soon legged it.

M set the camera up in the byre to see if we could capture some footage of our barn owl. The video isn't great but he/she is definitely in residence. Hopefully we'll be able to get some video of the deer in the woods soon.