In the past 365 my camera has been in place and recording for 335 days (92% of the year). It was activated a total of 3588 times of which 1052 were activation only's, errors or failures (29.3%).
This number of activations equates to 107,640 seconds worth of footage, that's 29.9 hours of clips to watch.
335 days equals 8040 hours and an activation by something recordable occurred 21.13 hours worth of time meaning that along the hedgerow there was an animal or me present 0.26% of the time!
The very first animal recorded in 2016 was a Wood Mouse and the very last a muntjac and fawn. They were recorded at 23.58 on the 31st December. This goes to prove that Muntjac will breed throughout the year.
Aside from myself over the past, 12 months's the camera recorded:
Wood Mice - 255 activations
Muntjac - 233 activations
Badgers - 246 activations
Foxes - 133 activations
Grey Squirrels - 312 activations
Rabbits
Brown Rats
A Domestic Cat
Wood Pigeon
Blackbirds
Song Thrush
Robin
Dunnock
Great Tit
Wren
Magpie
Pheasant
Moorhen
Jay
Redwing
The pie chart shows that the occurrence of the main species is fairly even although Grey Squirrel just edge the most populous and the Red Fox is the least.
Over the year I have caught some interesting behaviour such as identifying the badgers regular sprainting and how they forage. The squirrels have been very feisty and squabbling a lot and the fox has been quite elusive.
On the unusual side has been the few sightings of Rabbit. Rabbits used to be prolific on the site but never recorded on the camera using the hedgerow but this time over a few days individuals were sighted, possibly bucks seeking new territories.
Heres to another 12 months. I will have completed 3 years worth of data and so look out for graphs of each of the main species then.
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