Thursday 7 September 2017

A Pine Marten turned up at the river camera.

We didn't manage to walk into Twiggy's area on Sunday, so we cycled in on Tuesday evening the 5th September. It's getting dark early and  I can't get the setup even close to suitable... we won't be able to cycle in after work in daylight for much longer. We're up against it with this new location.

Quality video is proving impossible... the footage is blurry again, I may have forgotten to clean the lens after applying rainx. I need to investigate next time I'm in. I'll double check my settings as well.... It's so much effort to be left with rubbish footage I can't differentiate one Marten from another. We can't just nip back and footer with the setup, it's too far.

On a much more positive note, the camera we set by the river got a Pine Marten hunting in the reeds. We got footage of voles in this area too.
What a great find, we noticed a few PM scats leading to this area last week and just wondered if the animals used those boulders to cross the river. I'm absolutely convinced they will! There are very few alternative crossing points to get from one side to another...assuming they want to of course.

 It seems the animals hunt the river bank that's a great find for us. Something to work on!


On the downside.... I pulled the camera out!!!!