May 2021 Trail Cam's can be such fun

 Trail Cam's can be so much fun.  I always enjoy getting the card back home and going through the images with anticipation.  It is so satisfying and you just never know what is going to turn up.

This fox has had a successful hunt 

This fox seems to have done well and is bringing home a rabbit to its den.

I love this image of a Row Deer doe and the lovely light always works well even with a trail Camera, so the setting and positioning is still very important and this never seems to go away whatever equipment you are using.

Beautiful Roe Deer doe in the morning sunshine

It is especially great when you discover something new and I was really pleased when inspecting this image to see this is a young Muntjac.  With al the time I spend around this area I have never seen a Muntjac fawn.  

A Muntjac fawn

 I even managed to capture a Roe deer and a Muntjac in the same frame.  They seem perfectly at ease with each other

At perfect ease

This made me smile.  I had forgotten all about the Trail Cam and thought I would go and have a walk in the wood.  I picked up the Card a few days later.

Yeti in the wood!

Like I say you never know what you are going to find!

On a serious note it is great to survey and area and I like the way the Trail Cam Stamps each image with the date time and temperature.  What a great record to keep for the future.

Keep getting out there and enjoying the natural world!

April 2021 Hooray Spring is here!

 It is still staying cold, but nature carries on and is in full swing.  It's great to get some dry weather and sunshine and to look out for the signs.  My harbinger of the new season is always hearing the Chiffchaff in the hedgerows.  It always takes me by surprise when I am usually doing something else, and then I notice it repeating it's name.  "Chiffchaff Chiffchaff" and then suddenly become aware of its presence.

Chiffchaff

It's amazing how this small bird can travel such distances from southern Europe and North Africa to greet us with its call.  It is one of the first migrants to arrive.

Some birds start early and the regular Great Crested Grebe pair already have their young hatched and are feeding them up straight away.

Great Crested Grebe pair

A tasty fish is offered to this first born.  Like raptors they begin incubating their eggs immediately, so they hatch at different times.  The adult seems to stay on the nest until they are all ready to leave.

Another very early breeder is the Mistle Thrush.  This young one has already fledged and is begging for food up on a tree bow.

Juvenile Mistle Thrush

Jays are also very active building there nests.  This one soon had gathered many twigs and its home was very nearly complete by the time I left it.

In the grass Common Spotted Orchids are poking through and it was great to notice them even before their distinct flowers appear.

Common Spotted Orchid

Love is in the air for these Collared Doves they do seem to get on with each other so well!

 

Collared Dove pair

They look so contented to be in each other company!

To all nature lovers enjoy the best season of all. Spring time in the UK