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    Perils of going wild in the country

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes
    giles wood

    I’ve now spent 30 years transforming an acre of grade one agricultural land into a snake-infested wilderness featuring rank weeds.

    A visiting friend had the brilliant idea of setting up a motion-sensitive ‘trail’ camera within the acre, to see what wildlife I could observe by virtue of this spy technology.

    Excitement mounted during the next fortnight as I waited for one of my daughters to come home and retrieve the images – a task way beyond this technophobe’s skill level.

    The camera revealed a pageant of fauna, featuring

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