Well not a lot to report, I have had the cameras in the woods, on and off for some while and I have moved them about to see if some positions are better than others.

They have taken literally thousands of photos but you can only see something in a very few of them. Presumably what is triggering them is too small to actually identify, so it will be mice and voles or maybe robins and wrens.

I have seen a deer but I knew there was one about because I had heard it barking, then saw it in another part of Ninewells wood and then recently I have seen that several of my slightly bigger young trees have had their tops nibbled. Too high up to blame the rabbits.

Here is a photo taken of the rabbits. It is in the bottom right hand corner… These are the commonest mammals to feature, with perhaps the exception of dog walkers.

Interestingly only a couple of hours later the camera picked up these photos of a fox, presumably he could smell that a rabbit had not long since been in the area.

I suspect a wild boar has been in the vicinity recently as the grass verge was all turned over along the edge of Cleddon bog but so far I have not picked one up on the cameras.