It was a big disappointment when one of the better trail cameras I bought died after two weeks of use. Luckily, I was able to fix the camera and reinstalled it back at the scratchpost where it had been, but as a result, I don’t know what was happening at the scratchpost during the time … Continue reading “Broken Trail Camera Fixed and Reinstalled at Lower Scratchpost”
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My Adventures at Injured Badger Hole – Episode 11
The forest where I live is not all that big. It’s about 10km by 6km in size, which is not large enough for large predatory animals, like the bears, lynx or wolves. There is a more expansive forest about 30km from me, which is more than a 100km across, and that’s already large enough so … Continue reading “My Adventures at Injured Badger Hole – Episode 11”
New Trail Cam Set Up at New Scratchpost – Trail Cam Fails, Scratchpost Delivers
I have already introduced one animal scratchpost. The one featured in today’s video is a different one. It’s within the same forest, but in a whole different location. It’s actually the first scratchpost I found, but the second to have installed a trail camera at. It was quite clear right from the start that this … Continue reading “New Trail Cam Set Up at New Scratchpost – Trail Cam Fails, Scratchpost Delivers”
Feeding Songbirds in Winter – Great Tits, Blue Tits and Willow Tits
Beside the house where I live, I have a hedge of thujas (Thuja Occidentalis). Thujas are evergreen coniferous shrubs, but they can also develop into tree form. Their thick foliage makes them ideal for hedgerows. The same provides an ideal environment for non-migratory passerines – birds with well developed vocal organs (for this reason they’re … Continue reading “Feeding Songbirds in Winter – Great Tits, Blue Tits and Willow Tits”
My Trail Cam at Animal Scratchpost Is Dead After Capturing Wild Boars
I own five trail cameras. Four have semi permanent locations, one I use as a floating camera which I install where I feel it’s needed the most. Sometimes it’s as a second camera at a location with another cam, other times in new interesting places I come across which suggest there could be animal activity … Continue reading “My Trail Cam at Animal Scratchpost Is Dead After Capturing Wild Boars”
My Adventures at Injured Badger Hole – Episode 10
The dominant feature of Episode Ten of My Adventures at the Injured Badger Hole is a loud roar of an elusive animal. I speculate in the video that it could be a deer, as roe deer (Capreolus Capreolus) are known to bark like that, but alarm calls made by red foxes (Vulpes Vulpes) can also … Continue reading “My Adventures at Injured Badger Hole – Episode 10”
My Adventures at Injured Badger Hole – Episode 09
Day 13 at the injured badger hole turned out to be really nippy. With temperatures at -10 degrees Celsius and a heavy fog shrouding the area and thus blocking the sun, video recording with my palm sized Canon camera was a challenge. There’s no way to operate the camera with gloves on, and without gloves, … Continue reading “My Adventures at Injured Badger Hole – Episode 09”
Wildlife Scratchpost Trail Camera Moved Because It Has Narrow FOV
The trail camera I have at the wildlife scratchpost introduced in this video has the best image quality of all the trail cams I own, but unfortunately also the narrowest field of view (FOV) of them all. I originally placed the camera on a nearby tree, which is where I would normally leave my cameras … Continue reading “Wildlife Scratchpost Trail Camera Moved Because It Has Narrow FOV”
Wolf’s Milk Slime Mold Growing on Old Tree Stump
On a walk through the woods where I live, I came across a slime mold known as Wolf’s Milk (Lycogala Epidendrum). Visually, this slime mold resembles a fungus, and it even releases spores like a puffball mushroom, but slime molds are eukaryotic organisms and not part of the fungi kingdom, even though back in the … Continue reading “Wolf’s Milk Slime Mold Growing on Old Tree Stump”
Animal Scratchpost – Tree Used by Wildlife to Scratch Itchy Furs
In the woods where I live, I have several locations used by the animals where they aggregate in order to scratch their itchy furs. They tend to use coniferous trees for that purpose, quite expectedly because unlike most deciduous trees, the conifers have rough barks. I call the trees the wildlife rub themselves against “scratchposts“. … Continue reading “Animal Scratchpost – Tree Used by Wildlife to Scratch Itchy Furs”