I recently bought a new trail camera. A relatively expensive one (for a trail camera) as I wanted to get better images.
OS WILD 4K DS Solar Wi-Fi Trail Camera Dual sensor trail camera with stunning night imagery and video; a built-in solar panel; and high capacity lithium battery
Having set it up, last week was the first full week I had it running. Over the weekend I downloaded almost 2500 captures. And the quality is stunning compared with my old trail camera. Here are the best captures from the week; all have been fairly heavily cropped. For scale, the birdbath in the images is at most 2 meters from the camera and about 40cm in diameter.
[Click the thumbnail for a larger view.]
Investigating
“You said what?”
On Alert
PC Primrose investigates
Watching
Plodding homeward
One of our foxes; I can’t tell them apart
Staring at the back door cat flap!
Questing after buried treasure
Just to prove foxes do drink from bird baths
That was a good long drink
Drink on a different day
An early morning drink before bed
One of our cheeky little tree rats
Cleared for take-off
Rotation
Refuelling
Yes, squirrels have to drink too
Queen Tilly Cat
One of the local alpha male intruders, who seems to be tolerated by our three
Early morning is a god time for everyone to use the bird bath
Woodpigeon are surprisingly colourful in a pastel way
Boy Cat has a stand-off with the fox; unusual because they generally respect each other’s personal space
These images are many times better than the old trail camera produced.
It was actually sunny today, on and off, although quite windy. And Spring is definitely beginning to burst out all over. So I thought we’d have a few quick snapshots caught between gusts of breeze.
The early celandines are still flowering; there’s a goods scattering
all across the garden (which shows how wet our garden is). [Click the image for a larger view]
Of course there is also a good crop of golden dandelions
coming along for the early bees. [Click the image for a larger view]
Our columnar “ballerina” ornamental crab apple tree has been a mass
of bright pink flower for the last week. [Click the image for a larger view]
Meanwhile the Pinova eating apple has burst into bloom;
I’ve no great hopes of a good crop as there seem to be no pollinating
insects abroad and the compatible Falstaff tree is only just starting to flower. [Click the image for a larger view]
Strangest of all, how did this deconstructed bird feeder get from
it’s hanger to the middle of the lawn?
The fox was seen on the trail camera playing with it one night,
but I can’t think a fox managed to get up and dislodge it. [Click the image for a larger view]
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