17/09/2007 by nigel.

We have a new visitor to the garden..
A little Wood Mouse who comes and helps him / herself to the Hog Food.

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17/09/2007 by nigel.

I have built a new Hog House at the bottom of the garden complete with IR Cam. It is mostly built from bits and pieces that were lying around the garden or garage (breeze blocks, edging, wood).
Just waiting for our first visitor…

The original Hog Box has a full time resident now.. With any luck he / she will chose to hibernate here.

I have activated the sound in the Hog box, this can be heard on the camstreams feed. This feed normaly shows the Bird Table in the daytime and the Hog Feeding area at night but always streams the sound from the Hog Box.
You can normally hear the hog snoring, grunting and the odd squeak .
You can hear a recording HERE.

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17/09/2007 by nigel.

I have posted some videos of the Hogs and Mouse on the internet…
You can see them HERE

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23/08/2007 by nigel.

I have had some messages asking me why the feeds have been down. Well in a nutshell i have had a few problems with the pc that takes the video feed. It keeps crashing, so i am investigating the problem. I may have to do a rebuild of the machine.
I apologise to those that have missed the Hogs.

Nige

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09/08/2007 by nigel.

Yesterday I decided to re-site all of the cameras, feeding areas and hog box. The reason for this is that the hog box and the feed area had become an animal walkway to the garden. To this affect the hogs stopped staying in the box and start feeding less frequently. 

On the first night of relocation the hogs were straight to the new feed area and the hog box had a tenant. The fox also visited although at this point the fox feed was just placed in the middle of the garden. 

I have changed the design of the hog feeding area; this seems to have stopped the cats walking through and the fox eating the hog food. I’m sure the birds will still have a good go. 

I will follow up soon with some pictures. 

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29/07/2007 by nigel.

Ok I decided to have a move around with the cams yesterday. With the amount of rain we have been having lately everything has been getting soaked so I decided to place the cams in some of the drier areas of the garden.
The hog box is in secluded reasonably dry area so I decided to move the hog cam near to this.
The hogs seem to find it without a problem in-fact on the first night in the new area there was a lot of hog activity.
Again on the same night the fox showed up and ate the hog food. So tonight I have fixed the roving can just outside the hog feeding area and place a bowl of food there for the fox.

The hogs do not seem to be worried about the fox they just curl up, wait and carry on eating after the fox has gone. Hmmmm if only humans could live in such harmony.

The rain has been activating the cams leading to a lot of false captures so I have placed the cams in such a way that I’m hoping they won’t get activated by the rain so much.

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09/07/2007 by nigel.

Well its been constantly raining here for what seems weeks.. I have had to move the hog feeding area from its original position as it was getting flooded, the hogs don’t seem to mind.
The Hog Box still appears to be quite active..  no permanent resident yet. 

The Fox still visits now and then, I have put some extra food (dog type) out for the Fox so that he doesn’t take the Hog food….  Expensive this wildlife malarkey… :-) 

The birds have discovered the hog food and help themselves in the mornings making more of a mess than the hogs.
The magpies have taken to walking along the wall and peeking into the conservatory window at times jumping onto the window seal. 

I have some extra cameras to replace the low quality IR cameras. These are bullet cameras without IR so I need to make some IR illuminators to enable their use at night. 

Ok that’s it for now…  till next time. 

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21/06/2007 by nigel.

Last night the Fox returned. He / She came face to face with one of the Hedgehogs. The Hog just curled up and let the Fox have a munch on the food.

Fox Meets Hog

As we don’t want the Hogs scared off I have placed the Roving Cam down the side of the house where the fox comes in and left a dish of dog food out. I have chosen dog food in the hope that the local cats won’t eat it. But I’m sure the Hogs will have their revenge and eat some.
Hopefully this will dissuade the Fox from eating the hog food.

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19/06/2007 by nigel.

Nothing much to report on the Hog Box, it’s been rather quiet as of late

But last night we had another surprise visitor to the garden….  A Fox.

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03/06/2007 by nigel.

Well the Hog Box is once again occupied…  but not by the same Hog. The last couple of residents have stayed a couple of days and then moved on. will one of them make it a permanent home?…  

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