Tuesday night and it's wet again

I love this photo above, with the hedgehog's reflection in the puddle of rain on the rubber mat. I don't know if the rain became harder later on in the night, but the hedgehog visits stopped soon after 2:00am which is about three hours earlier than usual. Actually, I suspect the weather may have worsened because there were a number of triggers later on but with nothing obvious in sight such as a hedgehog or a cat, so I think the rain itself may have been triggering the camera.

Below are the pick of the night's photos. By the way, the hedgehogs do use the feeding station, but I'm not including those photos because they aren't too interesting to look at.

Lots of hedgehog activity on Monday night

...in fact, there was so much hedgehog activity and so many good photo captures, that the easiest way to show them all to you is in the form of a slideshow video:

Sunday night's visitors

...that is, Sunday night through to Monday morning. In fact, the first hedgehog didn't make an appearance until 12:50am, which is later than they have been most nights.










I feel I still need to play with the camera, positioning, etc, to see if I can further reduce glare. I'm still getting infrared white-out in the centre of the photos. Any tips would be gratefully received. Such are the pitfalls of photographing a nocturnal animal. I have no such problems with the birds in the morning when daylight comes:

Hogs don't want to get wet on Saturday night

There was absolutely no hedgehog activity in the garden before midnight last night. I don't think they are very fond of the wet weather. It must be hunger that eventually brings them out. Because of the rain I hadn't scattered mealworms on the ground, and all food bowls were inside the feeding station. Unfortunately because of the rain drops on its surface, we are prevented from seeing inside in any of the photos captured. And because of their speed when running about, there were precious little photos of hedgehogs outside the feeding station either.

Thursday night's hedgehog videos

The above video features some particularly nice close-ups. Watch out also for Elsa, who makes a cameo appearance.

The next video shows a fuller account of the night's hedgehog visitors, albeit in speeded-up format:

Blondie puts in an appearance on a wet Thursday night

I was beginning to think that the hedgehogs might not venture out tonight in the first wet weather for a couple of weeks, but it looks like Blondie was hungry!

A snoozy hedgehog

I was filling up bowls in the garden shortly before 9pm tonight when I spied this hedgehog seemingly having a snooze in the feeding station. It probably needed a rest, for it had just been around the garden and eaten three bowls of mealworms!

Tuesday night's infrared still photos

I think we can safely say "experiment successful"! Obviously the motion-detector camera was throwing out too much infrared light and just saturating the subject. Now, in this sequence of photos we have recognisable hedgehogs! Here are the best of the bunch: