One of the problems with camera traps is that you just get so much footage. And it takes a long time to go through, and then, for me at least, most of that footage seems to feature a blade of grass blowing in the breeze.
But some people are just good at setting traps. Vaughn from INCC (Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru), the ecologists I'm lucky enough to work with at Cefn Garthenor, set a camera trap up in May when the students from Bridgend College visited. It is now almost six months later and I've only just got around to seeing the results caught over a couple of days and nights ... good job that nature, rather than me, is in charge of this project.
I'll let the video clips do the talking ...
Otter passing by ...
Fox takes a gander ... the morning after the night before
Polecat on the move ...
Blackbird deals with a very hungry child ...
Badger moseys on by ...
Greater spotted woodpecker decides bank pecking is more fun ...
OK, so the woodpecker was from a second camera, but camera one at the foot of that tree was spectacularly well placed ...
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