{"id":3953,"date":"2014-11-01T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T09:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2014-11-01T09:33:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T09:33:37","slug":"pigs-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3953","title":{"rendered":"Pigs at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One night this week I set up my wildlife camera to record what the two pigs our neighbours keep do overnight (keeping the pigs with our neighbours is a joint project if you&#8217;ll excuse the pun!). These were reportedly quite active at night but the images showed they spent most of the night asleep.<\/p>\n<p>The camera was set in time-lapse mode taking one image about every six seconds. Even so, there were over 7,500 photos taken. At night it illuminates the nearer parts of the scene with its built-in IR (infra red) lamps. Using some of the photos taken I constructed a video of the most active parts of the night:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/110611324?portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/110611324\">Pigs overnight in October 2014<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user30828666\">Paul Morris<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These stills show the pigs early in the evening, and sleeping during the night:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103926.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3956\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103926-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"pigs evening\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103926-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103926-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_103926.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_104272.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_104272-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"pigs sleeping\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_104272-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_104272-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/w14_104272.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this shows the camera and lighting setup &#8211; I supplement the on-camera IR lights with two battery powered external IR lamps:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/s14_0645w1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/s14_0645w1-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"camera setup\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/s14_0645w1-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/s14_0645w1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/s14_0645w1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night this week I set up my wildlife camera to record what the two pigs our neighbours keep do overnight (keeping the pigs with our neighbours is a joint project if you&#8217;ll excuse the pun!). These were reportedly quite active at night but the images showed they spent most of the night asleep. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pigs at night&#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":[12,82,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallholding","category-video","category-wildlife-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","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=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}