I put the wildlife camera back in the vegetable garden the other night – all I got was a rat and a rabbit. It was interesting to see what they were up to though: The rat was very active during most of the night: it was scurrying all over the vegetable plot, studiously avoiding the rat bait, disappearing for a while then coming back. I could see quite clearly in the infra-red light the rat run that shows in the above photo but this was hard to discern when I looked for it in daylight. It was also quite a sizeable rat.
This shot showed it looking up at the camera:
I wonder if this was coincidence or whether it heard something…
The rabbit was also about:
You can see its eyes and just make out the ears. It spent a few minutes chomping away at the weeds the hopped off through the hedge on the left for most of the night, returning in daylight:
Here, the rabbit has just crawled under the fence – it seems to have grown well since I last saw it. It then spent time wandering over the garden feeding on the vegetation:
Finally I got this shot of it standing on its back legs:
Although I bought this camera for photographic purposes, it is helping us see what is happening at night in the garden. A good buy!
For these photos I have the camera on time-lapse mode with it taking a photo about every 6 seconds – so there are about 6000 images to view every night it is in use!