Badgers, Foxes and Hedgehogs!

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Over the last weekend, my husband installed some cameras so we could view the wildlife visiting our garden during the evenings and night time. Eagerly on Monday morning we inspected the SD memo card and were excited to find amongst the stills the normal foxes, hedgehogs, mice and numerous cats that were to be expected and a badger! A WOW! moment as it was totally unexpected. Our house is situated in an urban environment albeit next door to a small orchard attached to what was, a century ago, a farmhouse. There is a hole in the fence which we allowed to remain so that the hedgehogs could roam freely from garden to garden.




We put down some dog food, carrots and a dish of water and changed the direction of the camera to focus more directly on the hole in the fence. On Wednesday the camera was adjusted to take videos and this morning we had a little film show of our secret visitors. Here are three of them. So cute!
The videos are only a few seconds long but we are going to hopefully lengthen them for tomorrow. It's all trial and error at the moment. hahaha!



























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