Big Ted's demise...

The wildlife trail camera catches the busy nightlife right outside my bedroom door to the garden - foxes and badgers mainly.

For this event, the demise of Big Ted, there were two trail cameras running as irrefutable evidence, Part 1 is the event as recorded from one end of the swing, and Part 2 is the event as recorded from the other end of the swing.

Part 1
https://youtu.be/7OM1STv1fq0

The event is more or less the same in Part 2 except the fox is out of frame,so doesn't register.

Part 2
https://youtu.be/JJg3Q8zJeMc

This particular night, one badger (whom I call Kissy Kissy, because she keeps planting a kiss on cat, Midnight's, nose which invariably ends with her getting a hard smack across her nose from him), committed a most foul deed.

Midnight, cat, loves Big Ted (as my previously elderly cat did), and this may have been Kissy Kissy's revenge. The wind chimes seemed to chime at various appropriate intervals.

Kissy Kissy took advantage of the absence of Midnight (cat) now sleeping in my kitchen for the colder part of the night. But Midnight usually comes back to the swing around 5am.

Kissy Kissy pulls Big Ted off the swing and pummels him for over a minute, to the horror of the other badger who runs away.

Kissy Kissy keeps coming back to do a little 'message' on Big Ted. She does this repeatedly for a long time. The length of time she is staying in my garden in one visit is unusual.

Then the fox comes in, (this only registers in part 1, because of camera angle).The fox looks horrified, does not want to get blamed for this and bids a hasty retreat. The fox has also had smacks across the face by Midnight when it has put its nose into Midnight's face.

The wind chimes in Part 1 are next to the trail camera, and so it picks up when they sound the death knell several times. This is very eerie because those wind chimes need a strong wind to start chiming. So for them to do this death knoll several times, was rather spooky to me .

Then Midnight (cat) comes back to the swing at around 5am. He doesn't understand what has happened to Big Ted, his snuggle warmth and comfort. Midnight holds vigil over Big Ted. It absolutely pours with rain. The wind chimes death knell sounds one last time.

Midnight misses Big Ted.

In Part 2, it is the same event, the demise of Big Ted, but from the other side of the swing, and it picks things up from a fresh angle. It tells me there were two badgers there that night. And that the badger, Kissy Kissy, is very agile and very good at climbing.

I had to watch a few hundred 60 second video clips the two trail cameras took of that night, so this took some time...

Creative is Big Ted and the acknowledgement of his duty from 2010 to 2022.
2010 to October 2021 Big Ted kept my old cat Popeye warm and cosy.
2022, around end of May Big Ted was Midnight's warm cosy sleeping place on the swing.
Big Ted did a lot of duty for a child's toy bear.

Time for a cuppa, and to turn over to a new page...

EDIT... these videos need to be watched in YouTube for the full natural sound effects, especially the death knell wind chimes in the Part 1 video...which were very spooky to me...
They are a couple of minutes longer than my usual videos...