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Have just moved into a house ajoining fields and forest and hear some amazing animal noises at night and wanted to see whats happening, Dont know much about technology so hoping to get some reccomendations / links for suitable piece of equipment that has a night vision, can move location and wireless transmit video into the house or at least record onto itself for viewing later.
http://www.gardenature.co.uk/shop/index.php?cid=3
looks a pretty good website for wildlife, came across it looking for a helmet camera for my bikes!
looks a pretty good website for wildlife, came across it looking for a helmet camera for my bikes!
I bought a Stealth cam sniper IR about 18 months back and got some good results from it. Decent footage of badgers, deer etc. Was this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Shockey-Sniper-Digit...
Battery life is ok and the video quality at night is good (sound quality is crap at night as the IR makes too much noise and the mic picks it up).
If i were you I'd go for a trailcam of some sort (one you can just leave in situ and not have to wire it back to your house etc).
No idea how much you might fancy spending but you could go for something like this:
http://www.gardenature.co.uk/shop/product.php?pid=...
Well recognised and well rated brand, good battery life, shoots infrared at a decent resolution. 60 seconds of video at at a time doesn't sound much but should cover most things quite well - wildlife doesn't tend to hang around unless you put bait out.
Else the camera I bought is decent as well.
There are also some beautiful HD cams available which genuinely produce really quality footage if you're willing to cough up a bit more
Watch this on HQ, you can see the flies buzzing around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMK5Gnk4GA
As a side note trail cams are pretty new in the UK (mostly used in the US for monitoring game trails) and as such there are few reliable places to buy them from and a number of very dodgy sites that claim to sell them. Be a bit careful
I bought mine from here, good site recommended by anglers and other outdoors folks:
http://www.bushwear.co.uk/index.php?ClassID=249
http://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Shockey-Sniper-Digit...
Battery life is ok and the video quality at night is good (sound quality is crap at night as the IR makes too much noise and the mic picks it up).
If i were you I'd go for a trailcam of some sort (one you can just leave in situ and not have to wire it back to your house etc).
No idea how much you might fancy spending but you could go for something like this:
http://www.gardenature.co.uk/shop/product.php?pid=...
Well recognised and well rated brand, good battery life, shoots infrared at a decent resolution. 60 seconds of video at at a time doesn't sound much but should cover most things quite well - wildlife doesn't tend to hang around unless you put bait out.
Else the camera I bought is decent as well.
There are also some beautiful HD cams available which genuinely produce really quality footage if you're willing to cough up a bit more
Watch this on HQ, you can see the flies buzzing around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMK5Gnk4GA
As a side note trail cams are pretty new in the UK (mostly used in the US for monitoring game trails) and as such there are few reliable places to buy them from and a number of very dodgy sites that claim to sell them. Be a bit careful
I bought mine from here, good site recommended by anglers and other outdoors folks:
http://www.bushwear.co.uk/index.php?ClassID=249
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