We’ve just returned from a week’s stay in the Swedish countryside and during our stay I put out my camera trap for several nights. I usually place it in the forest behind the summer house but this time I placed it in the garden and put out some peanuts to see what might pay a visit.

On the first night we had this nervous looking brown hare…

After a couple of nights of no more than pigeons and blackbirds, I caught this badger snuffling up the peanuts…

…and on this last night, I caught this fox, again nervous around the camera.

These are lovely little snippets of life in the darkness outside while we slept. There were some mammals missing that I would love to catch on camera at the summer house. We didn’t see any red squirrels at all during our stay, despite them being very common, and we have caught a moose in the camera viewfinder out in the forest before. Most of all, I would like to snap a pine marten which have only been seen once from the house in the last few years that my family have been going there – maybe next year!

(Ignore the date stamp on the videos – I didn’t reset it when I inserted the new batteries).