25 Night visitor

I’ve been wondering about a few things, such as: Why do the pebbles move? Why is the water level dropping so quickly? If the tadpoles act en masse, they can shift a slice of cucumber quite dramatically; but pebbles? Of course I might have a pinhole in the pond liner that leaks and it has been very hot, so the water level is bound to go down, but still I wondered.

I wondered even more when I spotted some suspicious-looking poo on the lawn near the pond. On close examination, I think it was from a fox but, not being an expert, I also wondered if it could be a hedgehog (apologies to poo experts but I couldn’t see much difference from the examples online).

I few days ago I remembered that I’ve had a trail camera since I got it for a Christmas present a couple of years ago, when everyone was taking up new hobbies through Covid lockdown. It was a five minute hobby back then and, after lockdown, my life got swallowed up with other things and I forgot about it. Dusting it off yesterday, finding an SD card and figuring out how to use it, my plan was to see what’s happening after dark down at the pond.

After all this preamble, you’ll be thinking I’ve got some great footage of hedgehogs and foxes. We have Muntjac deer in the area but the fences round our garden are too high, so that would be impossible, but we’ve seen foxes before. But no, nothing so exciting; it was just a local cat last. A few birds were detected but they were too quick for more than an open wing to be captured. Even so, I’ll share the clip of the culprit drinking from the pond and I’ll keep trying, to see if that’s the only night visitor.