When wildlife expert Kate MacRae set up more than 20 hidden cameras in a garden, she did not expect to be potentially the first to record on video a badger giving birth in the wild.

At Yew View, on the banks of the River Severn in Worcestershire, creatures that call the secret garden their home include the likes of coots, moorhens, sparrowhawks and bats, as well as tawny owls, foxes, polecats, muntjac deer and otters.

MacRae, also known as WildlifeKate, was hired to make a nine-acre private site more attractive for some of the county’s most rarely seen animals, and installed high-definition and infrared cameras so that its owners and the public could see what was happening in the garden.