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Added 20th Feb to Features & Articles
I live on the very outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk and am lucky enough to get quite a varied mix of wildlife visiting the garden.
We often see foxes on the live cams and evidence of their visit (tracks/droppings etc) but never any other large wild mammals, until today that is! Whilst having my daily wander around the garden I noticed some pretty fresh looking tracks.
Each print consisting of two indentations, pointed at one end, about the same size as a 10 pence piece.Almost definetly Muntjac prints! How cool is that?! (for me it is anyway!) I always love to spot new species visiting the garden. Now it's time to see if we can get evidence on film!
The tracks were in a distant corner of the garden where our garden fence meets a natural hedge border. I've long suspected that this is where the foxes enter and exit the garden but I had no idea that other wildlife may be entering the garden via the same route! To date I haven't monitored this area with a trail cam of Live Cam, until today that is!
I've set up a couple of methods to monitor the area over the next few days...
- I've laid out an area of gently levelled damp sand. This will hopefully give us some very clear tracks to look at.
- I've also set up a Bushnell 1080p Trail Camera overlooking the area. The cam is set to take a 25second video clip every time the camera is activated.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that we manage to capture something over the next few days!
Posted by Jason Alexander
I hope so two Jason lovely post and blog