Great Somerford’s ‘Team Hedgehog’ were out and about installing camera traps for hedgehogs on the morning of 11th May. This project is a collaboration between Malmesbury and District Natural History Society, Wiltshire Mammal Group and the people of Great Somerford.
It was a beautiful morning for a walk around Great Somerford meeting with people who have kindly agreed to host a camera. We started at 10am with a demonstration of how to do it. Then, by 10.30am we broke up into teams of 2 with 4 or 5 cameras each to install. By 12.30pm they were all in – just a morning’s work and it was all done. ‘Team Hedgehog’ you were excellent, everything completed without any stress, in fact it was really quite fun!
In all, 30 cameras are now placed around the village and will stay there for 30 days until the morning of Monday 10th of June when they will be taken back in again for the data to be analysed.
At the end of that week, Malmesbury’s ‘Team Hedgehog’ will be in action installing them at 30 locations around Malmesbury Town!
The cameras will be installed across Malmesbury on Saturday 15th June and removed again on Monday 15th July. At the moment we have 12 volunteers helping to install them and 11 helping to take them out.
We really could do with some more helping hands. It’s not a complicated process and people will be put into pairs so you won’t be on your own.
For those who are interested I have created a video you can watch showing you how to install a camera and the first camera installed on the day will be a demonstration too.
So, if you are free on either or both of those days please think about giving us a hand – it will be a quick and simple process with a few more volunteers. Please contact us via our contact page if you are interested.
This project is funded and run nationally by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society
