Wildlife at Night

We find all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures at Butser, and recently we decided to try and capture our most elusive creatures on camera. Local school Bedales kindly lent us their trail camera from the Biology department, and over the last few days we’ve been placing it around the farm to see what visitors we have at night.We know that a barn owl comes and eats in our Saxon house, and another bird of prey eats in the villa, but unfortunately our attempts to film them have so far been unsuccessful! Last night, however, we decided to place the camera at the junction between the paths and paddock near the Stone Age enclosure, and on the ground we placed a few dollops of dog food.Success! We spotted a fox, badger, bunny, pheasant, magpie and our own chickens. We’ll keep putting the camera out this week and next to see what we can find – lots of fingers crossed for the owl!BadgerChubby Fox Tiny bunnyMagpieChickens