Wildlife activity

I brought in one of the wildlife cameras for its regular check up - I clear off the files and recharge the batteries (or change them - I've only got one working set of rechargeable batteries).  Going through the files takes quite a time, even if there are only 400 (!) this time round.  I delete the obvious ones - pictures of my feet and bottom as I go to and fro around the camera - or where they are blurred or where there is no wildlife.  A second pass is required for me to be more critical and determine whether or not I have enough photos of the rear half of badgers and boar, enough blurred pine martens and sufficient retreating deer bottoms.

Some files need a bit of examining to see exactly what I have captured - the ones where the camera is attacked by randy great tits being a case in point!  While others need a bit of editing to show the true beauty of a wild animal in its natural habitat - getting rid of the extraneous background that might give too much detail of the location of the camer for example.  There were some good photos in the first 150 files on the camera!

This badger was rather nice.

While I don't like coypu, this photo is not too bad.

Birds are the hardest to get it seems and I think this is the short-toed treecreeper that I often hear identified on the Merlin bird app.

The videos also need careful triaging - with the camera on a crossroads, you often get the tail of something disappearing, or the backside heading into the distance.  I hope the following selection are of interest.

This one is of a badger just checking things out.

And then there is one with two badgers checking things out together.

There is a red squirrel being acrobatic.

There is a video with a bird and a squirrel!

There is a pine marten being phenomenally cute.

There's a fox checking things out.

And there is a dog fox doing what all canines do.

What a fine brush he has!

We are also in the process of cleaning out the bird boxes before we put them back.  The really cheap tiny one had an acorn left in it by a squirrel, but the other two had fine nests in them so they did their job.  Once we have done a fire clean on the inside, they will go back up for the next season.

And yes, I'm afraid we evicted the spider!

The truffles arrived yesterday, so next week should be all about my culinary adventures with black gold.

Have a good week!