{"id":3864,"date":"2014-09-21T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2014-09-21T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T20:56:17","slug":"nightlife-in-the-garden-hedgehog-and-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3864","title":{"rendered":"Nightlife in the garden: Hedgehog :) and rats :("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time in the garden at night there is not much to see but occasionally my wildlife camera shows something of interest. This week a hedgehog came into the vegetable garden:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103571p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3867 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103571p1-600x388.jpg\" alt=\"hedgehog 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103571p1-600x388.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103571p1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103571p1.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>The camera is running on a 6 second time-lapse so, depending on the speed of the animal, there could be anything from a single glimpse of an animal to watching\u00a0 a full set of behavior. The picture above is a crop showing the hedgehog just entering into the frame. This is by my wife&#8217;s plant nursery in the vegetable plot.<\/p>\n<p>This second shot is the full image and shows the animal wandering through:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103572p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3868 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103572p1-600x419.jpg\" alt=\"hedgehog 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103572p1-600x419.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103572p1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103572p1.jpg 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>And the third image is another crop as the hedgehog moves past the camera:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103573p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3865 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103573p1-600x414.jpg\" alt=\"hedgehog 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103573p1-600x414.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103573p1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103573p1.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>These were taken at about 2:30am.<\/p>\n<p>One thing the camera does see a lot of is a rat &#8211; up to now we have only ever seen one in all the photos taken by this camera but I have suspected that there were\u00a0 more than one. Below is the only shot I have got so far showing two rats:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103570p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3866 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103570p1-600x425.jpg\" alt=\"2 rats\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103570p1-600x425.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103570p1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/w14_103570p1.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>It is their eyes reflecting the infra-red light that makes them stand out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time in the garden at night there is not much to see but occasionally my wildlife camera shows something of interest. This week a hedgehog came into the vegetable garden: The camera is running on a 6 second time-lapse so, depending on the speed of the animal, there could be anything from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nightlife in the garden: Hedgehog \ud83d\ude42 and rats :(&#8220;<\/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":[52,78,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-night","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","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=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}