The Christmas Bunny

I found this rabbit skull whilst out walking with my dad on christmas day, the whole body was perfectly decomposed, which is rare because normally it is eaten by foxes before it has time to rot. 

Mother And Baby Roe Deer

Yesterday I checked my camera trap and saw two lovely roe deer fawns and their mother, I was over the moon. Its hard to tell whether the fawns are male or female yet as they have not started to grow their antlers yet. Tomorrow is back to school so I won't be posting much, but I will try and post at least once a week.

 

My Trail Cameras (Part 1)

Today I am writing about my trail cams. I have two trail cams that are both made by Bushnell. 

1) This is my original camera that I got 2 years ago, and it is called a Bushnell trophy cam 2012. Unfortunately it was smashed a few weeks ago by my mums horse so I had to buy a new one (#2) Below is a picture of it: 

2) This is my new camera trap and it is called a Bushnell trophy cam HD 2014. Below is a picture of it: 

My trail cam gallery:

Brock the badger

This is Brock, he is a young adult badger that was unfortunatly hit by a car up the lane from my house in March. Me and Dad walked up the road in the dark with a wheelbarrow to go and pick him up. We lifted him up and placed him into the wheelbarrow (he was quite heavy). We then headed back. I had already dug a hole to burry him in (I now know that it would have been better to leave the body above ground because it would have made it easier to find the bones later on).

5 months later...

In July I thought that the badgers body may have rotted down by now (but I was wrong). I walked down to where we had burried it with a spade, I started diggiing and suddenly it started to smell really bad. The body had still not rotted down properly.

Getting the skull...

I prodded around the grave a little bit until I saw the head (it still had lumps of fat and soft tissue still attached to it), I lifted it up and it looked horrible.

Cleaning the skull...

To clean the skull and to get rid of all the fat and soft tissue I placed the skull into a bucket of boiling water and left it over night, I then did this a few times and it worked. Unfortunatly all the teeth had fallen out (I had to glue them back in the next day).

I now have brock in pride of place on the Window sill and I hope to have more skulls to live next to him in the future.