{"id":3902,"date":"2014-10-14T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T08:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2014-10-14T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T08:54:22","slug":"rats-in-the-polytunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3902","title":{"rendered":"Rats in the Polytunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rat bait in the polytunnel was going at an alarming rate so I set up my wildlife camera to see how it was being taken:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103593.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3903\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103593-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Rat in polytunnel\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103593-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103593-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103593.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rat (or maybe more although there was only ever one at a time in the images) kept appearing throughout the night to nibble away at the poison. Sometimes it would nibble away then return after a few minutes, other times it would disappear for an hour or so before returning.<\/p>\n<p>For this set of images I was supplementing the on-camera infra-red lamps with additional IR lighting &#8211; this does help give a clearer picture.<\/p>\n<p>As the camera was working on time-lapse, I have selected out those photos of the rat nibbling the bait and assembled a video:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/108764578?portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/108764578\">Rat eating bait overnight in the polytunnel<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user30828666\">Paul Morris<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rat bait in the polytunnel was going at an alarming rate so I set up my wildlife camera to see how it was being taken: A rat (or maybe more although there was only ever one at a time in the images) kept appearing throughout the night to nibble away at the poison. Sometimes it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rats in the Polytunnel&#8221;<\/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":[24,78,82,67,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-night","category-video","category-wildlife","category-wildlife-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","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=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}