We may wish to cosy down and spend the majority of our time indoors at this time of year but outside nature doesn’t stop. This week with our return to the office in the New Year we have placed our remote camera out once again on our Chatham Green Project site. We have captured a busy community of animals going about their daily and nightly lives, including some wonderful close-up badger footage!
Throughout the course of the year we record the different species captured on the camera in different locations around the site. Evidence of animal activity including trails, scat/droppings, feeding signs and burrows or setts are used to identify likely locations for positioning the camera along with the immediate area being relatively free of vegetation so that grasses and leaves moving in the wind do not repeatedly set off the motion activated camera.
Footage from this week is recorded from the area directly adjacent to our active badger sett and is taken from a four day period. During this week we have recorded badger, fox, muntjac, wood mouse, squirrel, blackbird and rabbit all using the same area at different times (luckily for the prey species!). As this location has proved a great spot for filming we will continue to place a camera at this point in the hedgerow.
We are also delighted that a second remote wildlife camera has been kindly donated to the charity today so we can record activity from two points on the site. With our new wildlife pond near completion it will be interesting to place a camera overlooking this area and see what visitors we have to this new source of fresh water in our woodland area!
See links to our camera footage on YouTube: