Trail cameras are a fantastic way to capture what goes on around my local patch and I quite often get asked which trail camera is best.
It is really up to personal preference, but for me if I decide last minute to put out a trail camera then the easiest one is the Little Acorn, especially if filming at night.
The Bushnell’s take a bit more adjustment and more batteries but produce better quality pictures particularly during the day.
One thing I have found is that cheap batteries do not work in the Bushnell trail camera.
Lithium batteries are more expensive but last so much longer.
Here is a short selection of footage taken this month so far.
As it has been so hot and dry we left out a bowl of water but everything ignored it.
The fox cubs have really grown over the past month and it was nice to see the foxes and badgers together.
They are a great way to see what goes on when our backs are turned 🙂
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Awww! I’m so envious of anyone with badgers and foxes! My garden is too in the town, but not enough so to have city foxes (I live in Cornwall).
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I love where I live, it always comes up with surprises. My trail camera recently filmed a polecat about 200m from the bottom of my garden.
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Hi Alex,
It’s Isaac from Isaac’s Birds of Oxford blog. I was thinking of getting a trail camera and I just wondered what model you use and if you recommend them.
Thanks,
Isaac
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Hi. I love my Little Acorn (£113), really easy to use, decent picture quality and uses less batteries. It is not great during the day, much better quality film at night. I’ve got a couple of cheaper bushnells but they take 12 batteries and the battery life isn’t very long. I also invested in a top of the range Bushnell nature view HD at £230. The picture is fantastic but I find it doesn’t always film as it stops working when batteries get low. The Nature View does come with different lens for close ups.
So I suppose it depend on how much you’re going to use it to how much you want to spend.
They are fantastic and I’ve got some really good clips over the past few years.
Downside with the Little Acorn is that it shines red when filming and the badgers and foxes notice it, while the Bushnell doesn’t.
I wrote this blog a while ago. https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/acorn-vs-bushnell-trail-camera/
let me know how you get on
Alex
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Did you use tap water in the bowl? I wondered if using rainwater from a butt might work better?
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Tap water. I think they also didn’t like the metal bowl, they drink tap water out of an old plant pot dish by our back gate.
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