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Post by rowanberry on Jan 8, 2018 20:22:17 GMT
At first the vixen was a bit spooked whenever the red led lights came on, but it hasn't taken her long to become used to the glow... but she'll still stop and stare up at the camera, as though sensing she is being watched. Then one night, she appeared carrying this strange thing.... I have NO idea what she's got in her mouth. It appears to have legs, but no head. What was so funny about it was that she marched up to the camera, stood there as though to show it off ("Look what I've got!") and then she turned around and went on her way. The next day a rather horrible sodden black lump was found down the garden, and Snowlynx has surmised it's all that is left of a crow...a plucked torso; headless, wingless and legless (the ones showing in the photo have disappeared.) I am just so thankful she didn't bury it in one of my flowerpots to be found in early spring..... arrrrgghh! Fox Trophy Jan2018 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by Harold Smith on Jan 9, 2018 9:40:25 GMT
I am just so thankful she didn't bury it in one of my flowerpots to be found in early spring..... arrrrgghh! Fox Trophy Jan2018 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr Some time ago my wife went to tidy up one our large flower tubs and found a headless Grey Squirrel buried in it. I can only assume it was put there by a fox. Gave her quite a turn it did. Harold.
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Post by Tringa on Jan 9, 2018 9:47:13 GMT
A good record. I have read that some animals are spooked by the red glow of trail cameras but have not seen any first hand evidence. As you say they will look at the camera but we have had foxes, pine marten and badger give the camera a good sniffing too, resulting in a closeup and out of focus view of a nose and whiskers.
Dave
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2018 0:23:46 GMT
This is so nice to see and really interesting , it's great that you're able to see what the wildlife are up to all the time, it's a different world and we can miss so much of it. At least you know she is eating properly !
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Post by rowanberry on Jan 10, 2018 16:26:53 GMT
I'm not always sure about 'properly' she does see the back garden as her territory, and every now and again likes to bring things that she's taken a fancy to- old shoes, gardening gloves, a broken flip-flop.... and she leaves them lying around. There's also a cheap plastic dog bowl inside the hedge that I can't quite reach- heaven knows who she's nicked that from!
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Post by NellyDee on Jan 11, 2018 14:22:59 GMT
So glad you are enjoying your cam. It is such fun. you wait till you get a spider, blown up out of all proportions up close to the lens and I never realised that mist and fog show as tiny round balls. The fox and badger that come here never come close to the cam, but the pine marten does as do the voles and wood mice - oh and I got a few slugs gliding across the ground.
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Post by rowanberry on Jan 11, 2018 21:36:45 GMT
Now it did not occur to me that slugs could set it off. Last week when we had all those strong winds the heavy rubber cover (an off-cut from an old pond liner) that we've got over the garden table was blowing about, and it kept triggering the trail cam all night long.... there must have been about 80 photos of a black sheet flapping.
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Post by Tringa on Jan 12, 2018 8:42:37 GMT
I'm not always sure about 'properly' she does see the back garden as her territory, and every now and again likes to bring things that she's taken a fancy to- old shoes, gardening gloves, a broken flip-flop.... and she leaves them lying around. There's also a cheap plastic dog bowl inside the hedge that I can't quite reach- heaven knows who she's nicked that from! Foxes appear to be very inquisitive and almost anything can take their fancy. We have had flip flops and trainers carried down the garden but the things that really get their interest are mesh bags of barley straw we put in the pond. Often we find them taken out and dropped by the side of the pond. I assume they think the barley straw bags are some sort animal. Dave
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