12 Days of Christmas – 2022 Day 9: A Celebration of the Pine Marten A pine marten minute to enjoy. We’ve had only a few clips of the pine marten in the last couple of years. It’s always exciting to get a brief view into the mysterious world of the elusive pine marten. At one […]
12 Days of Christmas – 2022 Day 8: A day in the life of the undergrowth This is from a couple of years ago, but I still remember reviewing the footage from the SD card. 🙂 Early in the day we see a little water rail. Later in the evening the secretive pine marten comes […]
12 Days of Christmas – 2022 Day 7: Badger Wrestlers We do see badgers occasionally passing by our trail cameras. Typically they are on their way from A to B, without much to report. Occasionally, we get to see them dig for worms as they go, or even sprint off when spooked. This little exchange […]
12 Days of Christmas – 2022 Day 6: Great Tit It’s mid-April 2022, just before we open up fully and I put a camera on a dead leveret that I’d found. I was hoping for an opportunist fox, or pine marten, to visit so I could see what might happen. What I didn’t expect to […]
12 Days of Christmas – 2022 Day 5: The Irish Stoat We’ve only twice captured a stoat on our trail cameras. The first time we saw one, it was in full chase of a rat. It was all over fairly quickly (Stoat 1 : Rat 0). This time the stoat was on its own looking […]
12 Days of Christmas – 2022 Day 4: The Elusive Water Rail You can’t imagine the excitement we felt when we saw that we’d caught a water rail on one of our trail cameras. This secretive amber-listed bird is heard more often than seen (said to sound like a squealing pig at times!). We’ve been […]
12 Days of Christmas – 2022 Day 3: A Busy Redwing Loads of redwing thrushes in the Purecamping woods in Winter 20022! 🙂 A common, but welcome winter visitor from the North. Birdwatch Ireland has them favouring open fields, but our woods seem to be just as attractive. Flocks of 20 and 30 specimens seen […]
12 Days of Christmas – 2022 Day 2: A Wonderful Woodcock The fantastically camouflaged woodcock in the Purecamping woods. Talk about a beautiful bird! Check out the variety of colours in the plumage! Now with a Red conservation status in Ireland due a decline in the breeding population, yet you can shoot woodcock in Ireland […]
