About two years ago I got myself a camera trap, triggered by movement it has an infrared beam that when broken will produce a still picture or can be set to video.

So far I managed to pick up Badger, fox, deer and rat when positioned in our small conservation area at work.

But the garden has produced quite different results, for example daylight has many images of collared dove, wood-pigeon, starling, house sparrow, border collie with ball and wife putting out washing all by daylight.

Night time has produced neighbourhood cats (around 6), mouse (maybe why we had so many cats) and best of all we discovered we had a hedgehog in the garden which was fantastic and these mammals are now in decline, main cause is road deaths as it’s only predator is the badger here in the UK.

Part of their diet is slugs, snails and insects so they are known as the Gardener’s friend, so we were delighted when we captured not one but two on video one night.