Videos

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The videos here were taken by trail cameras, some at night using infrared, which means they are black and white. They give insight into how creatures behave: one species interacting with its own species, or one species interacting with another.

Please note that the trail cameras are occasionally and by accident not set to give the correct date and time. We are developing a method of superimposing the correct date and time plus details of the video contents as a title screen. We will make this change as soon as possible.

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This set of videos are of badgers, taken using trail cameras in Kent. The first video, taken near the Kent coast is of a mother moving her youngster from one place to another. The reason for this move is unknown. It can be seen that the mother carries the youngster in her mouth, in a way similar to that used by cats.

Badgers are creatures of habit - they use the same trails to travel between their setts and where they feed. They live in small family groups and can be aggressive to each other, with the older badgers ejecting younger ones that might be competition for them.

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This set of videos are of turtle doves, taken using trail cameras in Kent.

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The videos here are all of goldfinches, enjoying a very small pond. There are several examples of the birds bickering as they consolidate the hierarchy within their flock, particularly adult males keeping the juveniles in their lower place in the flock's pecking order. It is also notieable that they will share the pond happily with several birds, some much bigger than themselves, other than occasional bickering over who occupies what space, but they have been seen to immediately fly away on the arrival of a magpie.

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The videos here are of fallow deer. These are increasingly common in Kent, partly because they have no natural predators (for example wolves) and as Covid restrictions mean restaurants that would normally serve venison have been closed for much of 2020 and 2021. Some of the videos show groups of females, with a mature adult leading a group of younger females. Occasionally a male is seen, usually solitary unless they are still young.

This is a single video, not a carousel. It was taken using thermal imaging. In thermal imaging the lighest colours are those that are hottest. In this video the hottest area is the pond, which absorbs heat during the day then radiates it at night. The flying bats are visible as yellow images. The coldest areas are blue and are the night sky. The intermediate orange and red areas are mainly rough pasture and trees. The trees radiating the most heat are a stand of conifers on the left of the image.

The bats were recorded late one August evening, flying over a wildlife pond, catching insects. They are believed to be common pipistrelle bats. Many thanks to Jill Tardival, Nick Tardival and John Puckett for both the full length recordings of the bats and allowing KLAW to use them.