Talking martens and camera traps on BBC Tees This week, you may have heard us on the radio chatting to BBC Radio Tees’ reporter David MacMillan about camera traps and pine martens… We met up with David in North Yorkshire a few weeks ago on a misty morning in the forest. Didn’t catch the interview live? …
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Wildlife at the Moors National Park Centre Earlier this month, NatureSpy ran a one day camera trap workshop at the beautiful Moors National Park Centre in conjunction with The Mammal Society. As part of the course, participants got to set up some of our camera traps in the nearby Crow Wood – and see what wildlife wanders …
Owl on the playground! Pupils at Richmond Church of England Primary School got an unexpected surprise this week, when a NatureSpy camera trap revealed a rarely seen visitor… A tawny owl visited the school’s picnic area at about 8pm one night, when all the children had gone home. Another image revealed the owl had probably …
Septmber Pine Marten Enewsletter The latest edition of our Yorkshire Pine Marten Project newsletter is now available online. The cameras were in Flo’s Forest this month and turned up some nice surprises – you can see the highlights below. We’ve seen the kids and the fawns get gradually bigger over the summer, and a pair …
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Camera trap workshop with Mammal Society approaching One of the participants finding a good spot for his camera! It’s not long until our next public workshop with The Mammal Society, on the 4th October at the Moors National Park Centre in Danby. A whole day of camera trapping, covering a wide range of topics, from the …
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New Bushnell camera trap competition Bushnell have launched a new camera trap competition, looking for the best photo and video from a Bushnell camera in 2014. There are two categories – ‘Adult’ and ‘Youth’ – with the winners receiving some very nice prizes, including another camera trap! Simon King and Wildlife Kate are this years …
Pine marten project camera traps out again… In another quick turnaround, camera traps have been shifted from one forest and quickly placed in another within the last few days. That means the NatureSpy team have walked over 20 miles with heavy loads through Forestry Commission forests… all because we want to find out if a …
Roe deer kids & fallow fawns Camera trapping in the forests of Yorkshire in June has an added bonus – baby deer. Before we had the additional Bushnell camera traps for the project, the previous project cameras had captured a few pictures of roe deer kids by their mother’s side in the forests. A roe …
July Pine Marten Enewsletter Click to read the enewsletter The July enewsletter from our Yorkshire Pine Marten Project is now available online – choc full of the latest happenings in the project and all the best camera trap videos from the last month. This month, we’ve had some great images of foxes, roe deer kids …