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<\/a>This image was taken just after midnight using the time-lapse feature of the camera: it shows a rat coming from the direction of a flower and shrub border on the left crossing the lawn to the north of the cottage (near our bedroom window!).\u00a0 This looks to be a good-sized adult, not a junior.<\/p>\nHere we have it wandering back a few seconds later:<\/p>\n
Although the rat was the only thing really noteworthy, I did spot a moth or two fluttering around the flower on the right of the frame. I need to try out placing the camera close to a subject to see how well it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This wildlife camera is showing things we didn’t know that was going on; in this case a rat prowling around: This image was taken just after midnight using the time-lapse feature of the camera: it shows a rat coming from the direction of a flower and shrub border on the left crossing the lawn to … Continue reading “Rat in the garden”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>And again, a few seconds later still:<\/p>\n<\/a>It is interesting to see how well the eyes reflect the light from the infra-red LED lamps. This camera is really opening our eyes to what is happening overnight in our garden – something I wasn’t expecting when I bought the device.<\/p>\n