Summer camp

Last week I paid a visit to the summer camp that is taking place at the nature school in Vallcàrquera in Figaró-Montmany. I showed the children my trailcam and explained to them how it works. I showed them some of the videos that I have recorded in La Garriga and Figaró. Then I suggested to them that we set the camera up at the nature school to see what we might film. One of the children suggested that we put it near the pond which is what we did, leaving some sardines and peanut butter as bait. While I was setting up the camera, one of the summer school monitors found a female newt in the pond! What a treat to see this animal so close up!

We left the camera for four nights and this week I went back to show the children the videos that we had recorded. They were very amused by the dog who turned up, rolled in the sardines and then swam in the pond! The group of people who spotted the camera and then danced in front of it, also made them laugh.

We did manage to record some wildlife too - two different foxes, a wild boar, a blackbird and a jay. In some of the videos we could clearly hear the sounds of the frogs in the pond too.