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think our hedgehog friend is somehow moving his food bowl a couple of metres across the lawn each night, away from his hog house for some reason, and we'd like to capture it.
google just throwing up threads from a few years back, so wondered what the best bang for buck camera is these days with decent tech.
plus points for decent video rather than just photos, ability to maybe connect to wifi if its strong enough, and watch the resultant vids/photos on our phones.
is solar power a thing with these yet maybe? powered up during day and lasts through the night?
the last one we had died a death and was a bit of a faff removing SD card each day, putting it into a card holder, plugging into laptop and then trying to find photos in its strange file structure, so ease of viewing and deleting files from phone/laptop would be good.
any recommendations please?
thanks
We've got a Browning Recon Force Edge (I think). Went with a known brand rather than something generic, we saw a few of them being used on Springwatch.
Rechargeable batteries last a few weeks with it running overnight. It's easy enough to take out the SD card each morning and have a quick look at the pics, folder structure is DCIM->Directory for pics.
No wifi so maybe not the model for you.
We have a NEXCAM Solar Wildlife Camera 30MP bought from Amazon. Seems pretty good, solar back up, can review and delete on internal screen. First one was defective but replaced with no quibbles, quite quickly.
wildcams are a bit of a minefield
I have 3 Brownings, including the new patriot, but endless problems with them. Also they eat batteries unless you get the lithium nonrechargeables, which arent cheap. Great videos though. They are often available cheap though on ebay
Also theyre not very secure, and need a bit of convincing to point in the right direction
One of my hedgehogs has recently returned, although how the palstic feeding lids have disappeared/got to the neighbours garden/dark side of the shed is a mystery to me. Im sure it wasnt the local cats
I have a security cam cam whichdoes its job, but not good quality, and a hassle to review the footage, and set off by rain, dust, insects.
Before i had a dome cam with tracking,it would follow the badgers around, but quality ws bad
I spotted one in lidl today for £40. No idea how good it is mind you
Ring StickUp camera - we have a couple of hedgehog feeders and it captures them really well. Previously bought the top rated one on Amazon - it stopped working after a month.
My other half uses a CAMPARK camera, she got it because it does not have the red light showing at night. This seemed to alert the wildlife something was going on and also let the scrotes who nicked it know the location of said camera. Seems to have good quality footage of the various wildlife she feeds in the garden
thanks for the suggestions, i'll go have a look at them.
that ring stick-up and campark ones, i assume theyre more of a security cctv thing rather than wildlife yep? id just been wondering if cctv would do a decent job instead of wildlife specific.
cheers
Depends on the CCTV - ours is a bit grainy and as it doesn't have a PIR function (probably as they're cheap cameras) you have to search through hours of footage to see anything.
@sadexpunk - the campark camera is termed as a trail camera. It has really clear footage on a bigger screen (sorry, don't know for sure what MP the camera is). It's certainly got a better picture than the neighbours ring doorbell camera that captured the above mentioned scrotes taking her previous camera. Photo of the camera she has now......
that campark one looks almost exactly like my old Apeman H86, but they all look the same.
Id get the noglo LEDs anyway
video quality is much better on the browning