A surprise visitor on the camera trap - a Hedgehog found my set-up!

To finish this blog, I wanted to make a small mention about the two images below. As above, I was hoping to add to the ever growing collection of Pine Marten images during the day, but the activity at the site in Oban had unfortunately dropped off. I’m sure this will pick up again next year when, hopefully, a Pine Marten mother will have kits and bring them to Robert’s garden.

I had seen on Facebook a friend had posted some images of Pine Marten in daylight not too far from where I was, albeit a 3hr drive away. I decided it was too good an opportunity to miss so, on one day on the trip, I made my way across to Perth and then north to Mark Johnson's newly built hide. There are some fantastic photos of Pine Marten coming from the hide and anyone wanting to see them should look it up on Facebook or via his website;

www.fusionimagery.co.uk

My luck wasn’t in unfortunately - I think it was getting late in the season to see them during the day. It was late July after all. However, a pair of kits did show for about 5mins at roughly 9.45pm. ISO’s were high and shutter speeds were low, but I’m happy with these two images nonetheless.