{"id":3835,"date":"2014-09-04T18:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2014-09-04T18:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:24:33","slug":"rat-and-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3835","title":{"rendered":"Rat and Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I put the wildlife camera back in the vegetable garden the other night – all I got was a rat and a rabbit. It was interesting to see what they were up to though: \"rat<\/a>The rat was very active during most of the night: it was scurrying all over the vegetable plot, studiously avoiding the rat bait, disappearing for a while then coming back. I could see quite clearly in the infra-red light the rat run that shows in the above photo but this was hard to discern when I looked for it in daylight. It was also quite a sizeable rat.<\/p>\n

This shot showed it looking up at the camera:<\/p>\n

\"Rat<\/a>I wonder if this was coincidence or whether it heard something…<\/p>\n

The rabbit was also about:<\/p>\n

\"rabbit<\/a>You can see its eyes and just make out the ears. It spent a few minutes chomping away at the weeds the hopped off through the hedge on the left for most of the night, returning in daylight:<\/p>\n

\"rabbit<\/a>Here, the rabbit has just crawled under the fence – it seems to have grown well since I last saw it. It then spent time wandering over the garden feeding on the vegetation:<\/p>\n

\"rabbit<\/a>Finally I got this shot of it standing on its back legs:<\/p>\n

\"W14_103573p1\"<\/a>Although I bought this camera for photographic purposes, it is helping us see what is happening at night in the garden. A good buy!<\/p>\n

For these photos I have the camera on time-lapse mode with it taking a photo about every 6 seconds – so there are about 6000 images to view every night it is in use!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I put the wildlife camera back in the vegetable garden the other night – all I got was a rat and a rabbit. It was interesting to see what they were up to though: The rat was very active during most of the night: it was scurrying all over the vegetable plot, studiously avoiding the … Continue reading “Rat and Rabbit”<\/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":[52,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","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=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}