Probably, out of all my hobbies and interests, cataloguing the creatures which live around my house ranks the highest. As a kid I used to keep a daily diary of what birds and animals I’d seen and often draw one of them. Now I have cameras and trailcams but the principle is still the same. There are still some of the larger critters out here which elude my lenses, and some which plague the hell out of them, but I just really love knowing that where I live still has true wildlife – not reared and released. It truly is a wild place.
These photos were taken on a Canon DX412HS and a trailcam.
The featured photo is of a particularly manky and mean looking dog Red fox.
This is a mole cricket, a large cthonic insect which plagues potato fields:
A Yellowhammer singing
A sounder of Wild Boar bolting from one tree line, across a meadow, to another. This photo was taken from a distance of about 1 mile and the entire sounder took only a few seconds to cross the several hundred feet back into safety.
A Roe deer hind in a creek caught on my trailcam
While this blackbird is a common English garden bird, I had to feature it because it makes up about 90% of my daytime photos each time I put the trailcam in this location – a mouse makes up 90% of the nocturnal ones.
