Trail Camera Footage on Barbed Wire Fence

This week you get two blog posts (lucky you) as my previous one didn't post until I checked just now.

A few months ago I set up my Bushnell Trophy Cam HD 2014 on a barbed wire fence that is the boundary between our 4 acre woodland area and the whole of bedgebury forest (owned by the forestry commission). The fence goes along about 200 metres between two fields. We knew the deer had to cross the fence somewhere as we had seen deer in our woods on a regular basis, but we did not know where about they got through. We walked along the fence line and found an area where the fence was a bit lower than all the rest. We also saw a bit of deer fur on the barbed wire fence. I placed the camera on the fence and waited. After the camera had been left for a week I went and checked it and saw a few fresh deer slots in the mud on one side of the fence. These footprints belonged to a Roe deer doe and buck that had just come and sniffed the camera without jumping it (which I was quite pleased about because the camera was not in a very good position as it was aiming too high so that all you could see was the deer's head).

After readjusting the cameras position a bit, I left the camera for another week and then went to collect it again. This time the camera was in a good position and I got the same Roe deer buck, another smaller Roe deer buck and a Muntjac buck. None of these jumped the fence either just walked up to it and walked past.

Finally after two weeks of waiting a deer finally crossed the fence. Unfortunately they didn't cross the fence how I had expected them to (jumping it), instead they went through it. It was the same Roe deer buck that I had been getting for the last two weeks but this was the first time he had actually crossed the fence.

 

 

 

After this Roe deer had got the ball rolling all the deer were doing it. Two more does joined him by going through the fence and another two bucks also did it. This was obviously a well used track for the deer. The next week, I got my best video yet. It was the bigger buck chasing the smaller buck. Not only that, but they both jumped the fence together, (had the Roe deer rut started early?)

 

 

 

 

I was really pleased with some of the videos I got of the deer crossing the fence and got about 50 videos of 6 different deer over the period of a month crossing through that small area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracking the wild boar in the Forest of Dean

This post was written in April but didnt post (again).

On Wednesday, My family and I went on a trip to the Forest of Dean. The plan was  to get some videos of the wild boar on my Bushnell Trophy Cam HD 2014. On the first day we arrived we didnt venture to far into the forest before we saw signs of the boar. They dig up the roots and bluebells and cause huge distruction (we guessed this was the reason why so many people dislike the boar).

A few hours of walking later I found what I thought was a good place to put my  Trail Camera. We placed it and went back to the B&B we were staying at. 

The next day we decided to go on a scenic route round the forest in the car. After 10 minutes of driving my sister Hannah shouted out, "Boar". We parked the car a few minutes up the road and me and my dad walked to where the boar had been spotted. At first we didnt see anything and walked around for ten minutes looking for signs. Suddenly from a few metres infront of us this huge boar came flying out of the bracken and heading towards the road. I ran round the boar in an effort to scare it away from the road to avoid a car accident, it worked. The boar headed up the hill away from the road. I slowly followed it but made sure not to get too close to the boar. Then suddenly a few metres infront of me I saw some movement. I looked down as about 6 young wild boar (still stripy) dispersed into the undergrowth. I continued to follow the big boar and managed to get a good but slightly blurry image on my iPhone. 

I decided to move my camera here for the last night as I felt that I would get more footage here than I would get at the previous place. We went to get my Trail Camera from position A in which I got one video of a Fallow deer. When we got back to the place I wanted to move my camera to the Boar had all gone, but we decided to put the camera there in hope that the mother and her babies came back that night. We found a small wallow under an Oak tree and put the camera there. 

Once we had placed the camera we continued the drive around the forest. A few miles up the road we saw another group of wild boar, and up the road from that we saw yet another group of wild boar, meaning that we had nearly 30 wild boar that day, (which was very suprising as everyone we told said that we would need to be very lucky to see any boar at all). 

The next day we went to go and collect the camera. In the mud by the camera I didn't see any footprints which made me think that maybe I hadn't got any footage. I had to wait for the four hour journey before I could check the camera on my computor at home. 

When I got home I was very suprised to get 7 videos of a wild boar (It was a sow as it had teats but unfortunately none of the piglets were in shot of the camera). 

All in all I was very pleased to get any boar on my Trail Camera let alone to have seen them in the flesh. 

More Trail Camera Footage

Note: This blog post was written in March but for some reason did not publish. So this blog post is a mixture of March's blog and a more updated blog.

Most of what I blog about now is trail camera videos, due to the fact that where I have my trail cameras now I have been getting up to 50 videos of deer per week and lots of videos of foxes too.

Recently a friend of my next door neighbour got a trail camera like me and he asked if I would go round and help him set it up with him. We set it up and on the first week we didn't capture any good videos but the next week I went there and we saw that the deer were following a path along the field and over a fence. So we decided to set the trail camera up looking at the fence and he got a fantastic video of a Fallow deer junmping over the fence. This inspired me to put a trail camera up on one of the fences leading into one of our fields. We got quite a lot of action infront of the camera but unfortunately we didnt get a picture of it jumping over it though. 

I have to have my Bushnell Trophy Cam 2011 set in photo mode because for some reason it doesn't work when it is set in video mode. When I put it out I thought that the photos might be blurry because of the fact that the deer move quite a lot but the pictures were surprisingly clear.

I also left the other camera (Bushnell Trophy Cam HD 2014) in the same place as before and have got some even better pictures and videos. Including a picture of a yawning Fox, Roe deer buck in velvet, and lots of Fallow deer. 

I also put my Bushnell Trophy Cam 2011 across the road from my house in the old bird park which has now been abandoned. And I surprisingly got some photos of a Roe deer doe. I was surprised because it is only a few hundred meters away from a very busy main road.

Note: This was written in March but unfortunately didn't publish. I will now write a more updated end to this blog below.

After I had had my camera traps in the Fallow deer wood for a few months I decided to move the camera to have a little bit of a change of scenery. So I moved my camera to a nearby stream. The stream was not very wide but it took an effort for me and my dog to cross it. We got many Roe deer, Foxes, Badgers, Squirrels, and even a new animal for us, a stoat. I created a movie of all the animals crossing it which is on NatureCams youtube page but I will put it below.

 

As I write this blog I have just got a new Bushnell Trophy Cam HD 2014 (My third trail camera). I have now got this camera set up at a fence, I have got some great footage but I won't spoil the next blog post so you will have to wait and see what it is.

Lots of Deer on the Trail Camera

Only when I checked today did I realise that I hadn't posted to my blog for nearly a month. But I have got lots of videos on my Trail Camera. I read that Popcorn was a good bait for deer but unfortunately I didn't get to see if the deer ate it because the mice ate it all in the first night.

Unfortunately I didn't get a very clear video of the Muntjac but at least I know they are in this area so I will hopefully get them on camera again.

 I got a video of these Three Fallow deer. I have also got two big bucks with large antlers so I know that there are at least 5 Fallow deer out there. 

This is my first ever video of two foxes in the same video and its even more of a bonus that it is in the daytime. I cannot tell what sex they are but they may be a male and female because it is fox breeding season now.

I also got this funny video of a small Fallow deer (that I have named Ted) trying to pick a fight with a big buck and then running into a tree. 

And I also got a video of this Roe deer Button buck in velvet. 

In the last month I have got over 500 videos of Fallow deer, 40 videos of Roe deer, 6 videos of Muntjac and 10 videos of Foxes.