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A Mother Doe and her two incredibly cute Fawns were joined by a few other Fallow Deer, right in front of my trail camera. The Fawns struggle to stay in one place for longer than five minutes, much like teenagers. Observing their behaviour is fascinating.
The plan was to set up the camera in a relatively open space in the hope of capturing some action during 'The Rut.' I found what looked like a great spot, with evidence of Deer close by.
I put the camera up at the end of July and decided to just leave it there right through 'The Rutting Season' and see what it captured.
I was super excited to be going back for it at the beginning of November.
When I opened the camera to swop the SD (memory) cards over, I saw that the card was full, the batteries had around 30% of power left and 99 videos had been shot!
So, with a new SD card, this time with twice the memory (64G) and new duracel batteries, I found another location and set the camera up with an almost dry shallow muddy pool in front of it. There were plenty of 🐾🐾 and 💩 around, so I expect some activity there through the winter, when there should be a shallow pool there.
I would hope for an odd Deer, perhaps a Fox (now I know there is at least one there) and maybe a Buzzard or Owl to go for a drink during the night hours. I plan to change the batteries and SD card once again in March.
Anyway, now that I have been through all the footage captured during the 3 months it was in place for, I have come to the conclusion that I put the camera out way too early. The SD card was full by the end of August and 'The Rut' hadn't even started. To be fair, I didn't anticipate the deer to doze off in front of the camera, which recorded over 70 videos of them and filled the memory card up!
The Fox making an appearance during the night was a bonus for me. (I adore Foxes)
I know that Foxes are heavily persecuted around this entire area and in 30 years I had only seen 1 single Fox and zero signs of them being around. I'll end on this plus point.
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BTW... Ignore the camera information on the bottom of the video as nothing was reset and the times and dates are all wrong, lol.
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