Last Thursday I got it out in the forest in an area where I'm surveying Red Squirrels, using Peanuts and Sunflower seeds as ground bait.
Nothing happened on Thursday but at 0543 on Friday a Brown Hare passed by and was caught on IR.
Nothing else until 0610 today when a Pine Marten arrived and spent about 12 minutes making a pig of itself.
Then at 0829 a Red Squirrel turned up briefly and shot up a Norway Spruce about 2 minutes later and wasn't seen again. What suprised me was how soon after first light it appeared. At this time of the year and at the sub zero temperatures we've had for over a week now I would have expected it to be foraging a bit later in the day. I think maybe there was still Pine Marten scent hanging around which is probably why it didn't stay or return.
At 1042 a suprise visitor was this Jay which stayed for about a minute.
No more after that until I collected the images at about 1430.
I've left more bait and will be going back in a couple of days.
All the images are shown original size with cropping. I'll talk more about trail cameras at a later date.
