Author: Franco

Disturbed

All the times foxcam was mounted on a tripod in our back garden, multiple Foxes and Badgers came within couple of feet of it and paid it no heed. They simply got on with looking for snacks and munching them.

Posted in 2019 Sri Lanka

Two by Two

I aimed foxcam over the back garden fence again last night but earlier than usual so I could set it up in the fading light. No bait was involved, either. I’m glad it was out early because the first action

Posted in 2019 Sri Lanka

Badger City

This time I tried foxcam looking over the garden fence without any bait, just to see what might normally be happening outside in the woods. What a treat. Quite early in the evening, a bit before 21:00, a Fox was

Posted in 2022 Fox Tales

New Location

Following a couple of failed attempts at attracting wildlife into our back garden with left over bones and carcasses since our neighbour’s new fence was installed, I decided to move the trailcam down to monitor the woodland over our back

Posted in 2022 Fox Tales

Redundant

For Sale; Bushnell Prime Low-Glow trailcam. Free gift: 3 sets of lithium batteries. The last two carcasses that have gone out have been ignored by everything but blasted cats. The first of those went out on a filthy night with

Posted in 2021 Fox Tales

Effin’ Cats

Having stocked up on four sets of lithium batteries to power foxcam, I haven’t been putting it out recently. TBH, the images it captures are such rubbish and the video is even worse that I have become somewhat disenchanted with

Posted in 2021 Fox Tales

Dust Up

Some weeks ago at one of our all-too-infrequent [once a month] farmers market days, I bought a venison haunch from our favourite game butcher. I left it wrapped and put in the freezer until the time felt right. On Friday

Posted in 2021 Fox Tales

Oxburgh Versus Oxborough

A National Truss – sorry, National Trust – day and a bit of a conundrum. Beside the village of Oxborough lies Oxburgh Hall. Why the different spelling, I wonder? Go figure, as Amerispeak would have it. Along with woodland walks,

Posted in 2021-07 Norfolk

On the Trail of Pingos

This always makes me think of 101 Dalmatians; Pongo, if memory serves, was the father of said batch of painfully cute Disney Dalmatian puppies. Ya gotta love ‘em. A pingo, on the other hand, is “a periglacial landform”. So there!

Posted in 2021-07 Norfolk

A Desert Rats Tale

We’re back in Nelson’s county, good ol’ Norfolk, but not anywhere near the Broads this time; we’ve come to Thetford Forest to enjoy the English summer which, this year, appears to be about a week between 15th and 23rd July.

Posted in 2021-07 Norfolk