{"id":4455,"date":"2015-05-03T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2015-05-03T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T11:00:08","slug":"rats-in-the-orchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4455","title":{"rendered":"Rats in the Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking around our little orchard I saw a hole in the ground close to the fence with a neighbour. So, suspecting it might be rats, I set up the wildlife camera:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100220w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4457\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100220w-600x420.jpg\" alt=\"rat 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100220w-600x420.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100220w-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100220w-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100220w.jpg 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was right &#8211; this shows a rat emerging from the hole. The next 3 photos are from the 6-second interval time-lapse sequence:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100221w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100221w-600x420.jpg\" alt=\"rat 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100221w-600x420.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100221w-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100221w-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100221w.jpg 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100222w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100222w-600x419.jpg\" alt=\"rat 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100222w-600x419.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100222w-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100222w-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100222w.jpg 1420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100223w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100223w-600x419.jpg\" alt=\"rat 4\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100223w-600x419.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100223w-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100223w-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/w15_100223w.jpg 1420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may be coincidence, but this is by our neighbours chicken run and he has just started putting the chickens feed inside the hut rather than leaving it outside. I suspect they are looking for another source of food&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking around our little orchard I saw a hole in the ground close to the fence with a neighbour. So, suspecting it might be rats, I set up the wildlife camera: I was right &#8211; this shows a rat emerging from the hole. The next 3 photos are from the 6-second interval time-lapse sequence: It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rats in the Orchard&#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":[24,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-wildlife-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4462,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}