It’s been a while, but the wildlife camera returns!
This time I put it at ground level, looking out onto our back patio. The camera functioned for less than 60 hours before the batteries died, but even that relatively short span was enough to show our backyard is a veritable animal highway.
Let the evidence begin:
That is a grey squirrel, one of the many that live here. They are in fact so common that I think the squirrels are as much inhabitants of our property (albeit the trees outside) as we are!
The elusive chipmunks. They have tunneled a city-state under our house, but are seen all-too-rarely. This guy is hoovering up sunflower seeds (that we scatter onto the patio) to fill his winter larder.
Good to see the deer are comfortable enough in our backyard to lie down and relax. Note also those images are several hours apart. One of the deer photos taken had 3 (possibly) 4 deer in the one shot.
As I have said before, I’m no bird expert. But a brief spot of researching online reveals that the guy on the left is a hoopoe and the black and white guy on the right is a shearwater. I’m not sure what they are doing in our backyard but… the camera doesn’t lie!
The strangest photo is this one (and the only of it’s kind):
And thus, any doubt about the chance of a hoopoe visiting my patio was well and truly dispelled when it turned out that The Exmoor Beast called my backyard home as well!
🙂