29/03/2010 by nigel.

Last night we had the first visitors to the new Hog House. One of the hogs was having a nice sleep when it was rudely interrupted by another hog.

The full video can be seen on the UKGW video channel.

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28/03/2010 by nigel.

Here are a few great frames from Feeder one of a Robin..

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28/03/2010 by nigel.

Lying around in the garage for a while now I had an old log with a hole in the side of it. I decide to run a little experiment and see if I could get the birds to take meal worm from it.
I made the hole a little wider so that the birds could get their heads in to root around for the worms.
Meal worms are good escape artist so I was a little concerned that they would all crawl out of the log before they were eaten. No such luck for the worms… Minutes after placing the log on the bird table a Robin came down and had a good fill of worms, this was shortly followed by a female Blackbird. The second time I filled the log with worms it was almost as if they were waiting.. No sooner had I reached the top of the garden and both the Robin and the Blackbird appeared to gorge on the worms.

Watch the video on the UKGW YouTube channel

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27/03/2010 by nigel.

Yesterday evening saw our first Hedgehog visit for 2010.. The hog visited for the first time at around 22:23 and then again in the early hours.
I have been outside and rebuilt the hog feeding station today as it was starting to leak a lot. So a new feeding station and lots of fresh food… Lets hope as last years this will be a daily event.

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21/03/2010 by nigel.

I have just spent the day overhauling the cams and cables in the garden. Some of the cams had very noisy pictures due to degrading cables and in some cases degrading power supplies.

So as-well as replacing some cables I have also fitted one single PSU (power supply unit) to feed all of the cams. Tonight when all of the IR’s become active will be a test for the PSU.

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21/03/2010 by nigel.

I have a new hog house for the garden this year. The old one had a resident most nights last year but we didn’t get any breeding or hibernating hogs. The new box has a lot more room inside so hopefully this will be better.

I have fitted an IR cam to the inside if the roof looking into the main sleeping area. Unlike last years box this camera does not have a fitted microphone, it has more IR LED’s than the last camera so I’m hoping this does deter the hogs from using the box. If the hogs take to the box I may fit a microphone at a later date.

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