Night vision camera for garden

[EmpressAlexandra]

Can anyone recommend a (preferably cheap!) night vision camera I can fix in the garden to see what animal is eating food I put out each night?
Thank you!

Bumping for you OP as I want one too! I hear the ring doorbell company does one. It was on qvc as one of their desks but has since expired.

What food are you putting out?

Hi. Sometimes dog food (wet or dry - dry seems to be preferred). Sometimes hedgehog food which is always eaten (though since my dogs love that I’m not assuming that means it is a hog!). Generally put it out about 10pm.

I was given this for Christmas. It’s excellent. Easy to set up, weatherproof, discreet. No noises or flashing lights except when you turn it on. Can put the memory card in my phone to upload. These are stills taken from 30 second recordings which are motion activated. Lots of different settings options. Daylight recording is more focused and colour perfect

Thanks very much. Tho I’m a bit concerned that looks like a young lion in your garden!

@Trethew is that a Big Cat, as opposed to a big cat?

You could try a Blink XT2 from Amazon. Wireless, waterproof, 2 year battery life, auto recording when triggered. But the quality will depend on how close you can get it to your food source.

It’s a pregnant vixen. Haven’t seen her for a while so I think she’s had her babies

While you're waiting to get your camera set up, this is worth trying: take a sheet of cardboard, cover it with foil, then hold it over a lit candle so it gets covered with soot. Place food bowl in centre. Then cover evrything with tunnel (another cardboard box, weighted down so it can't blow away) which is big enough for hedghogs but not for your dog (if you have a chihuahua this won't work). Then in the morning you should see the footprints on the sooty foil of whatever is eating your food (when we tried it, it was slugs).

Alternatively place a sheet of white paper as the floor of the tunnel, and put an inkpad at each end.