For MacRae, otters were a “real highlight” of the garden, but she has also seen many species of birds, such as kingfishers, blue tits, wrens, house sparrows and buzzards.
The site has a number of small waterholes, where birds regularly drink and bathe.
Some of the feeding station live cameras can be seen on the cameras page, external of her website.
On one occasion, she said a sparrowhawk landed on a post with something in its talons – it turned out to be a Daubenton’s bat.
“The sparrowhawk stayed on that post for about five minutes and ate the whole thing,” she said.
MacRae has also lost a number of her cameras in the past due to river flooding, but the footage she gathers allows her to study animal behaviour and habitat use, and to share the moments with a wider audience.
“That’s the joy of trail cameras and wide cameras, they’re inobtrusive,” she said.
“They’re just sitting there, watching 24/7 and the wildlife aren’t worried by them at all.”