Wild camera or: who is stealing my hazelnuts :)

Yes yes, mice and nuts. In our former apartment, or at that time still my wife's student flat, the mice in the ground floor found walnuts. They were then carried up in the natural stone walls, rolled along under the floorboards in the crawl space, carried up behind the wardrobe, and then cracked underneath. We almost went crazy at night. I thought the mice were having a party in the crawl space and eating up the wardrobe. Until I discovered the sack of walnuts with a hole. After that, the nut feast was over.

After the flood in 2002, the multi-family house was unoccupied or only partially occupied for a few years. During that time, the mice made themselves comfortable in the basement, attic, and partly also in the apartments. After life returned to the house bit by bit, we had to plaster the house with traps and empty them several times a day. I think we stopped counting at 300 caught mice that year. The best result was 9 caught mice in one day. As cute as the little creatures look, you shouldn't let them multiply too much.

If it weren't for all the smileys....then I really couldn't take you guys seriously anymore. We don't even have vacation boredom yet and then such a thread

With a bit of patience and always some tasty nuts, the squirrel now comes by regularly. However, I have to crack all the nuts and only lay them down without shells. Otherwise, it steals all the hazelnuts and buries them 2 meters away in the raised bed or in the lawn. oops:

I have a standard trail camera because I own a forest. In total darkness, it illuminates about 4m effectively (b/w). If you have residual light (streetlight), a USB webcam with appropriate software also works. I use it every evening to watch the martens on/in the car.