Snake Cam Day 1: 3 things I learned

About 4 years ago had a positive eyes-on of a Grass Snake circumventing our garden pond and have had zero episodes ever since. Recently restocked the pond with some fish as the Heron had robbed all my lovely Koi, so the pond has been suffering from neglect until recently when I've cleaned it all up and popped the pump back on and it's rejuvenated now so bunged some new fishes in. Yesterday I set up an OP and was on fishwatch when I spied some weird scattage. Upon closer inspection it was bright red and packed with seeds, little bit of googlerisiing and voila! Grasssnake; he is alive. So set up an IR camera last night and this is what I learned.

1. Got my lines of sight all wrong so missed any Snakular activity.
2. Pigeons set the camera off 3x so confirmation that all is working ok despite the green set-up light not functioning (cheap chinese s**t).
3. Pigeons landing on it confirm that must use securing strap as per SOPs in the manual and not just place it free standing.

*chris packham face*

Posted By: Tombs on June 22nd 2017 at 11:31:48

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Snake Cam Day 1: 3 things I learned (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 22, 11:31:48
- Nature cams are awesome (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 22, 14:13:48
  - it's been sat in a drawer for ages (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 22, 16:44:27
- are you the lad with the robot mower? If so could this be deployed in an anti-snake role? (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Jun 22, 11:36:31
  - Nope that Git the elder (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 22, 11:46:19
    - pls carry on the snake reportage, he is the official summer wotb pet (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Jun 22, 13:04:20
      - Depend on if he int camera shy really (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 22, 16:35:44
        
        I thought that about the toilet, but they're gagging for it. (General Chat) - APB, Jun 22, 17:47:28
    - Gnomes. Put some gnomes up around the pond, might scare away the snake from the fish. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 22, 11:51:13
      - I have 5 Norwich City Gnomes - I love them! (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Jun 22, 11:51:55
        
        You love them long time? (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 22, 14:09:08
        
        Low life (n/m) (General Chat) - shortfatb, Jun 22, 12:44:44
        
        wesley hoolahgnome, alex pritchgnome, jonny shortharson, titchell dijks, cameron jergnome (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 22, 11:54:52
        
        Josh & Jacob Smurfy (n/m) (General Chat) - mr carra, Jun 22, 13:08:47

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