This is how little space there is behind the screen I put in front of the doorway in the side fence. Guess what, last night? It didn't come in this way, it must have scaled the fence, but it managed to scrabble its way through to get out! So this afternoon after playing golf and doing some shopping, I didn't relish the task of resolving the problem. Fortunately, I still had the little door I made for the doorway, so I cut a bit off with my jigsaw and reduced the size of the doorway. Here's the video
No foxes in the garden last night. The alteration to the doorway presented no problems for the hedgehogs. Here's a screen-shot of the back-end of one going out. It's only a short-term problem. Fox cubs grow very quickly, the ones born under our summerhouse in March 2017 had left home and become independent by the 21st of May. The last sighting of them in the garden. So they would soon have been too big to get through the doorway anyway. But I didn't want them disturbing the hedgehogs, although they didn't seem to upset their routine. Two were using the feeder as normal and wandering around the patio looking for live food. We might not see the foxes again, given that there's nothing to eat in our garden.
It's odd to me how your foxes come so close to civilization and don't appear to be leery of humans. Over here, if a fox comes into town it's either sick from eating something poisonous or it has Rabies.
Not a lot happening now. The two visitors have got into the routine of visiting at different times, feeding and then leaving. There's definitely two, as one has a cement dust mark on its back from brushing against the roof of the doorway in the fence concrete base panel. Got to say, my newest camera, which was cheaper than the other two, has good definition when the security light is triggered.
Nothing much to report, regular visits from two hedgehogs at 11.30pm and later last night. The other night, when it was raining quite hard, they didn't come at all. It suggests they probably are travelling quite a distance. These trail/cams have excellent audio. The one covering the patio picks up the sound from our TV in the corner of the lounge, despite there being no windows open. The people in the house behind ours must have had an evening barbecue. We weren't aware as we can't hear anything as the French windows are closed during the evening and their garden is 90ft away. The camera that covers the doorway in the side fence is only about 12ft from the back fence. It didn't start recording until around 11.30pm. when the first hedgehog came through the doorway. There must have still been a lot of people in the garden behind us, as it picked a lot of conversations, particularly those of a couple who were near the back fence. They continued to talk quietly after the hedgehog and gone out of range of the camera, but it's set to record for three minutes before turning off until the next movement activation. I think this couple may have been embarrassed if they knew their conversation was overheard, although I didn't bother to listen to more than a few seconds of it.