Category Archives: Badger

Pretty and Friend (trailcam foxes)

January 27, 2014 by Words | 2 Comments

The trail camera has been quietly clicking away for the past few days. I’ve not looked at it for the best part of a week and there were about 900 images on it when I finally brought it in this evening. Mainly foxes, mainly at night. This is a short sequence from Friday of Pretty with a much larger male fox (he featured briefly in photos last year as Nicked Ear).

two foxes

two foxes

two foxes

I’m not sure how accurate the temperature gauge is on the camera, but it looks as though it’s been dropping below 0°C at night.

This one is from nearly 3 days later, one of a handful of badger sightings that the camera has picked up over the past week.

badger

Pretty was around earlier this evening. Her foot is definitely much improved and she was using it almost all the time. In this photo the hind leg that’s nearest the camera is the one that was causing her problems. As you can see, it’s firmly planted on the ground.

Close-up of injured fox leg (near), now healed.

And a last shot of Pretty getting a small reward for her patience.

Close-up of fox

Camera note: colour stills taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f/2.8L macro IS USM lens. trail camera images from the Bushnell Trophy Cam HD.

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Jackdaws at Dawn

January 17, 2014 by Words | Comments Off

More grey skies and gloom, but the local jackdaws were enjoying themselves in St Laurence churchyard at Falmer this morning. There’s a healthy colony (or ‘clattering’) of them there, and their chattering calls ring through the air in competition with the ever-present squawking gulls.

Jackdaws

Jackdaws

Jackdaws

Jackdaws

Jackdaws

No foxes at Falmer today, but Pretty has been in and out of the garden. We’ve even had a badger come by. It dashed up the steps (all of two or three feet from me) and scurried to the far end of the garden before I could even remove the lens cap. It’s always an absolute pleasure to see a badger close-up, even when the sighting is as fleeting as the one tonight.

Pretty is somewhat more cooperative with the camera, so here she is!

Foxes

Camera note: jackdaw photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Fox photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.

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Passing Badger

January 3, 2014 by Words | Comments Off

Along with the foxes that use the garden at night, a badger has been an irregular visitor through the winter. Here are a couple of photos caught on the trail camera.

Badger

Badger

And while I’m here, one of the foxes (not Pretty this time) seen during the day on New Year’s Eve.

Fox

It’s very wet and windy outside as I write this, and there’s more heavy rain on the way.

All images from the Bushnell Trophy Cam HD.

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