Hi Bonzocat ,
I have two of the same, your right about the pricey tag but with this type of product Imho you get what you pay for.
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Seems that the hedgehogs I see around have made nests but are using them only during daytime to sleep – not to hibernate.
All the hedgehogs that I see in other garden cams, spend a lot of time eating cat food - and scratching, just like this one!
The temperature shown in this video is 8°/9°C in the early morning but often drops lower to 3°C. Tough little critters.
This video is taken with my new garden camera, Campark TC22 4K (125.99€) powered by a solar panel charging an internal high-capacity lithium battery. No other replaceable batteries. Even though my setup is facing away from the sun in a slightly downward direction the battery is always around 90% charged. Light from the winter sky seems to be enough even underneath my plum tree.
It has Bluetooth and local Wi-Fi, which means that you can connect to it with your smartphone, and download videos to your smartphone from 25 metres away, or you could remove/replace the SD card as I do anyway.
Only drawback compared with the Bushnell Nature View is that it has fixed focus wide angle lenses - one for daytime and another for nighttime. And there is a little distortion in the wide-angle daytime lens, but acceptable.
And if you have a lot of videos in the camera, the Bluetooth/Wi-Fi system takes far too long to download to the smartphone.
It’s a different sort of camera and you use it to its best capabilities. I’m well satisfied. Edit added. The infra-red setting is on the lowest setting in this video, so it’s pretty powerful!
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The Campark solar camera takes good closeup videos as well – this video, taken 4 weeks ago, needed no editing.
The window sill is about 750 centimetres long, so not a bad closeup for its fixed focus wide-angle lens.
The video file is large though – 960 MB. Took 2½ hours to upload a short 4k video to YouTube.
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This horde came through the other night…
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Time for a belt-fed hunting rifle!
I’m surprised they haven’t all been mowed down by the local hunt!
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Feral hogs aren’t stupid, they’re off to the next valley the moment that they hear dogs.
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According to my source ChatGPT – “This appears to be a European wildcat ( Felis silvestris silvestris ), which is native to various regions in Europe, including parts of France. The distinct features such as its thick striped tail with a blunt black tip, and a coat that is more robust and patterned compared to domestic cats, are typical characteristics of this species. These cats are nocturnal and elusive, often spotted in forested or rocky areas.”
Very much like the cat from your trail cam…I uploaded your cat photo to ChatGPT.
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I’m wondering now if the cat I trapped and released some while ago is a European wild cat. Looks like one - a young one. He was about a year old, and very fierce when I found him in the trap.
I think he’s still around the neighbourhood. Seen him a couple of times – one time being confronted by my cat.
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I’ve been wondering the same about one I caught on a camera trap a while ago. They can reproduce with domestic cats, so not always immediately obvious whether it is a true wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris). All of the other local cats are frequent visitors, so we know pretty much whose is whose, and this one was only around for a few weeks/months. I think this one is probably a hybrid, but it had a really thick tail (albeit partly cut off)
