Archive for February, 2012
27 Feb
Sap-sucking Birds
24 Feb
A new mammal on my patch captured with the Bushnell Trophy Cam
I had set my Bushnell up on the earth that I had believed was a fox earth. This morning, I returned to collect it and found it had only one capture. A bit disappointed, I clicked on ‘play’ to take a look. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing… and on the first view, I [...]
23 Feb
Nest box activity hots up!
With temperatures rising to a heady 16 degrees today, I knew there would be a lot of nest box activity! I was delighted to see interest in four out of my five standard nest boxes. Both blue tits and great tits were in and out, and taking a good look around. One great tit did [...]
20 Feb
Squirrel Studio goes live!
This nest box has caused me a considerable amount of stress!!! Last weekend, I spent an hour, un-threading a 50 m cable from a very prickly hedgerow so I could use it to wire up a camera in the new box. The box was using a cam I have had for a while, which seemed to work [...]
17 Feb
Preparing for more cams!
I have had a busy day today… and still time caught up on me and with light fading, I had to admit defeat! As you know, I already have a lot of cameras on the garden, but some of these share cabling, to minimise the number coming back into the house. In many ways, this [...]
11 Feb
Bushnell Training & Osprey Discussions… great day!
On Thursday, I ran a training session on Bushnell trails cam usage for the Staffs Wildlife Trust, Barn Owl Action Group. They have bought two Bushnells and we are going to use them to monitor some barn owl sites and boxes. None of the group have ever used them before, so I ran a session to give [...]
5 Feb
Sparrowhawk….. that looked very like a goshawk!
This afternoon, I came up to the office and spotted a large bird sitting on the far hedge….. I immediately realised it was a bird of prey and grabbed the binoculars. It was quite a way away, but very pale, slightly smaller than a buzzard and heavily barred. I grabbed the camera and trained the 400mm [...]
5 Feb
Snowy Trails
The temperature dropped rapidly on Saturday and by early afternoon, the snow had started. The feeders were really busy and I filled some three times.. as if the birds sensed that the weather was going to deteriorate and that they needed to stock up! It snowed pretty much solidly all afternoon and by the time [...]
5 Feb
Foxes at Badger Bank
During the week I returned to Badger Bank to collect the Bushnell cams that I had set up there. It is always really exciting bringing the SD cards back, put them into the laptop and see how many clips have been captured. I wasn’t disappointed…. the two Bushnells positioned near the sett had over 150 [...]
2 Feb
A quick catch-up!
I have been meaning to get on here and do a couple more blog posts as lots has happened this week, but time is just flying past and there are so many things to achieve each day, the hours just fly past! I will do some more detailed blog posts about some of the events this [...]
