Secrets of the Night

All quiet on the trail cameras apart from this brief look at a badger passing near the house.  I don't put food out for the badgers near the house otherwise the already-too-fat cat will eat it too on his midnight strolls, so there are no peanuts or other bits of food to make this badger stop by the camera.  And of course it's the inferior Apeman camera I have down by the front gate!  Nothing on the two Brownings, but that's sod's law!

It was a lovely evening tonight when I went out to set up the cameras before dark.  There were quite a few bats flying around and I could constantly hear an owl hooting not far away.  I do find dusk to be a magical time of day, when the night creatures are preparing to come out of hiding.  The cameras reveal this secret world and it's always a pleasure and quite exciting to check them out the next day to see what - if anything - they reveal.  Secrets of the night seem so much more special than anything from the daytime!  Hopefully better luck tonight, fingers crossed!