Caught on (trail) camera...

Rovi

Found this on the trail camera memory card:


The bridge it's on is made of pallets 120cm wide.

I'm thinking perhaps Pine Marten?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Looks like it alright! Nice!

Rovi

Excellent!

I also found this recently:


Is that ever the same lad?

Or something else???

I'm told there are otters hereabouts...

Half-cocked

Pine Marten alright. Nice one.

mgwhelan

I wonder is the second one a otter.

bing3

mgwhelan wrote: »

I wonder is the second one a otter.

Looks like an otter to me too.

Half-cocked

mgwhelan wrote: »

I wonder is the second one a otter.

Difficult to tell. I get lots of these blurred pics from my trail cams too. I find mink, otters and pine martens very hard to differentiate when they are fast moving blurs like that. Looking at that one though, I'd be inclined to say otter.

DellyBelly

2nd one is an otter. Throw out some bread with jam and I bet the pine martin will return

Rovi

If I threw out bread and jam, all we'd get would be pictures of me

I was thinking/hoping the second one was an otter, but it's great to hear you guys saying the same thing!


Here are a few more:

I'm pretty sure this is the blunt end of a badger:



These two MUST be entirely new species hitherto unknown to science :

Rovi

Oh yeah, and I'm pretty sure this is 'our' Buzzard:

dodderangler

Rovi wrote: »

If I threw out bread and jam, all we'd get would be pictures of me

I was thinking/hoping the second one was an otter, but it's great to hear you guys saying the same thing!


Here are a few more:

I'm pretty sure this is the blunt end of a badger:



These two MUST be entirely new species hitherto unknown to science :

Badger
Hare
Moggie

Some great pics there mate.
Keep an eye out for manbearpig while your at it

Half-cocked

Love the capture of the Hare!

Here's some stills from video taken on a trail cam, interesting size comparison between a mink and an otter:








I'm really hoping the otter will chase out the mink. He seems to be new on the scene. They are having a great time scenting the bridge along with a fox and a pine marten. The whole area reeks!

cambasque

great pics and wildlife, whereabouts are you ? are otters common in ireland ?

Half-cocked

cambasque wrote: »

great pics and wildlife, whereabouts are you ? are otters common in ireland ?

Otters are surprisingly common, but rarely seen unless you know where and when to look. That one above is in Co Kildare.

dodderangler

cambasque wrote: »

great pics and wildlife, whereabouts are you ? are otters common in ireland ?

Good few on the dodder

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

cambasque wrote: »

great pics and wildlife, whereabouts are you ? are otters common in ireland ?

Studies suggest that Ireland has the highest density of the Eurasian Otter in the world. In suitable freshwater habitat numbers have been estimated at 4 per sq km and 1 per sq km in saltwater habitat. As said, they are an elusive animal but fairly widespread in Ireland.

Birdnuts

Rovi wrote: »

Excellent!

I also found this recently:


Is that ever the same lad?

Or something else???

I'm told there are otters hereabouts...

If I didn't know better I would have said that was the rear end of an aardvark or porcupine!!:pac:

Rovi

'My' hare is making great use of 'his' bridge:





He'd better hope to never meet this lad on his travels though! :

dodderangler

See the fox there with his fluffy winter coat on him.
He'd do we'll to take a catch a fully grown hare

Half-cocked

Bridges are definitely hot spots for trail cams. It's amazing how much wildlife uses them. If you have the luxury of 2 cams, place 1 at each end to cover animals moving in both directions and avoid those hard to identify bum shots!

cambasque

it's lovely to see them..

cambasque

good to hear they are common..

fryup

a cheeky pine marten having a nibble at my birdfeeder, he's already nicked two..at first i thought it was a magpie doing it but now i know the culprit

Rovi

Back with another one!

Anyone care to ID this fella?:

Pie Man

It's a deer

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Looks like a Muntjac to me.

Rovi

Here's what I'm presuming is the same beasty, front view, showing its horns/antlers. In the dark :

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It is indeed!

Capercaille

Rovi wrote: »

Back with another one!

Anyone care to ID this fella?:

:eek:
Contact these guys: http://invasivespeciesireland.com/species-alerts/
This deer must be removed as soon as possible. If muntjac become established here they will do great damage. Contact any deer hunters/any hunter in you area and get that animal(s) shot ASAP. Local deerhunters might be the people releasing them in the first place though!

Birdnuts

R we 100% on this - I thought Munties were smaller??

dodderangler

That's a sika pricket.
Talk about jumpin the gun on this one folks.
Only thing is has in common with a muntjac is the small little marking above the eye but sika has this aswell.
Plus it's size is completely wrong. A muntjac body is a lot closer to the ground. The body of this is exactly as a sika stands with long legs.

Rovi

<puts down rifle>

Thanks for the clarification guys!

I wasn't entirely happy that the animal in my photos conformed to the ID sheet from the invasivespeciesireland.com site:
https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/nonnativespecies/downloadDocument.cfm?id=37
...or to other photos of Muntjac found on Google.
The antlers look 'wrong', it's too big, and I can't see any sign of the Muntjac's very distinctive canine teeth.

Put "sika prickett" into a Google image search, and you get animals that look MUCH more like 'mine'.

Without getting TOO specific, I'm located about 10km to the south of the Slieve Bloom mountains, so I'm not entirely surprised to see deer finally making their way this far. I'd have expected it to be Fallow though, there are a lot of them up the mountains!

I'm delighted to see deer in the forestry, so long as there aren't too many of them!

bibio

The deer in the picture is a fallow not a sika. No white gland mark on lower rear leg that a sika would have, but the clincher is the hair in between the legs denoting the penile sheath that a male fallow has.

Rovi

Thanks for that bibio, I'd have though that fallow was by far the most likely species all right, with the Slieve Blooms being nearby.

Half-cocked

Aldi in Santry have at least one trail camera left, spotted it in their display case today. €99.

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Joeseph Balls

Hi Geezer,
Whats the pipe among the rockery? Is it a homemade den you've done??

Geezer1000

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Hi Geezer,
Whats the pipe among the rockery? Is it a homemade den you've done??

No its an old drainage pipe that goes under the road. Thats in the ditch straight across the road from my house

Half-cocked

Hi Geezer, great looking shots. Can you tell me what model of Tasco trail cam took them? When one of mine inevitably gets stolen I would consider replacing with one like yours as it obviously works really well and makes lovely clear photos.

Half-cocked

Caught this critter scavenging a salmon carcass. I posted photos of an identical animal a few months back and the consensus here was that it was a feral ferret. I sent the photos to the National Biodiversity people and their mammal expert ID'd it as an American Mink. The unusual colouration is a throwback to selective breeding of captive mink in fur farms. I'm still not sure, what do you guys think?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I would agree on mink in every respect except colouring. I have had to remove perhaps 50+ mink over the years and I never encountered any with that colouration. But anything is possible, particularly with cross breeding, I suppose. My gut reaction was feral ferret and I'm finding it difficult to change from that.

Eddie B

Half-cocked wrote: »

Caught this critter scavenging a salmon carcass. I posted photos of an identical animal a few months back and the consensus here was that it was a feral ferret. I sent the photos to the National Biodiversity people and their mammal expert ID'd it as an American Mink. The unusual colouration is a throwback to selective breeding of captive mink in fur farms. I'm still not sure, what do you guys think?

Saw this two tone colouration on a program made in the UK so its more than possible for it to be a mink!
I've come across grey, light brown, and pure white mink myself, but not the two tone! Sometimes you'll get more than one mink with a certain colouration in a particular location!

junospider

Its a mink.

dodderangler

I've seen pics of these types before and they were ferret x mink.
Not saying it is but very similar

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

dodderangler wrote: »

I've seen pics of these types before and they were ferret x mink.
Not saying it is but very similar

I'm inclined to agree to you. As I said earlier, any markings are possible with crossbreeding. Ferret x Mink is what we would call a definate maybe.

dodderangler

Lovely looking animal all the same.
Just curious as to how salmon carcass ended up there.

Eddie B

Melissa Purring Stammerer wrote: »

I'm inclined to agree to you. As I said earlier, any markings are possible with crossbreeding. Ferret x Mink is what we would call a definate maybe.

I disagree totally! Their two differen't animals! Might be possible in a lab but certainly not in the wild. I'd have to agree with the expert on this, that its simply a mink!

dodderangler

It's a mink yes but no one said it was a ferret mink hybrid..
Was simply talking about the colours of it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

:)Just a minute now boys .:) Feral ferret and Mink have crossed in the wild on several recorded instances in Ireland. The offspring are sterile but the cross does happen.