{"id":489025,"date":"2026-03-22T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:23:08","slug":"the-secret-garden-filming-wildlife-in-worcestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489025\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret garden filming wildlife in Worcestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For MacRae, otters were a &#8220;real highlight&#8221; of the garden, but she has also seen many species of birds, such as kingfishers, blue tits, wrens, house sparrows and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-47231160\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">buzzards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site has a number of small waterholes, where birds regularly drink and bathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the feeding station live cameras can be seen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifekate.co.uk\/livecameras\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cameras page, external<\/a> of her website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On one occasion, she said a sparrowhawk landed on a post with something in its talons &#8211; it turned out to be a Daubenton&#8217;s bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The sparrowhawk stayed on that post for about five minutes and ate the whole thing,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s the joy of trail cameras and wide cameras, they&#8217;re inobtrusive,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re just sitting there, watching 24\/7 and the wildlife aren&#8217;t worried by them at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For MacRae, otters were a &#8220;real highlight&#8221; of the garden, but she has also seen many species of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-489025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}