I have been using a Trail camera at the caravan hide for the last week but it hasn't been working particularly well, in fact hardly at all.  I have had  it placed in front of …….. well you can actually see where, a picture tells a thousands words of course.  But there is a story to be told.  The other day all the bait had been taken, this included a rabbit carcass and dead day old chicks right in front of the camera and it hadn't fired and several other times I hadn't been confident that it had fired when it should have. I have owned the camera for around 7 years and it's yesterdays technology so I decided to buy another one which even though it was a fraction of the price, was going to be much, much better, more reliable and will film and capture images in higher resolution. It arrived this afternoon and I had to wait until the end of a highly depressing TV football match before I could go out to set it up, oh, and of course, retrieve the memory card from the old one. I wasn't particularly confident that I would have any images on the memory card but I noted that the bait had been taken, who knows I thought?  I put it in to the computer and checked, when I opened up the folder, there were Jpegs!  I hurriedly clicked on them one by one and, eureka there was a Buzzard!  I now know what's been taking the dead day old chicks, not a fox as I thought.  Knowing that the Buzzard was happy to come in to the log to take the bait, not once but twice in just a few minutes will give me lots of confidence to wait with my much better camera and lenses.

It's not the best, nor sharpest image that I have ever taken but when you consider the way it was taken, I am very pleased and can't wait to set up my Lumix camera and wait for a Buzzard to fly in.  My hope will be to capture the moment that it flies in.