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Find the right trail camera for what lives at the bottom of your garden
Compare trail cameras for garden wildlife, nature watching and security. Every camera page brings together the maker’s specifications and, where published, what reviewers found — with sources and a checked date.
- 48 cameras compared
- 18 brands
- 16 guides
- Every page sourced and dated
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Filter by price band, 4G, no-glow night vision, 4K video or solar, then put up to 4 cameras side by side. Specifications come straight from the manufacturers — and where a maker doesn’t publish a figure, we say so rather than guess.
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Bresser
Bresser 60° Wildlife Observation Camera 5-20 MP (9633105)
- Budget
- Low-glow
- Trigger
- 0.6 s
- Detection
- 20 m
- Video
- 1080p/25fps
A basic, screenless Bresser trail camera with a 60° PIR sensor reaching up to 20 m and Full HD video. It is a straightforward card-based camera for o…
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Bresser
Bresser 100° Wi-Fi Wildlife Observation Camera 4-24 MP (9633106)
- Budget
- Wi-Fi
- No-glow
- Trigger
- 0.5 s
- Detection
- 20 m
- Video
- 1080p/30fps
Bresser's Wi-Fi trail camera pairs a wide 100° motion sensor with a phone app (BRESSER EagleEye) for setting up and pulling clips off the card from u…
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Bresser
Bresser Bird/Small Animal Camera SFC-1
- Budget
- No-glow
- Trigger
- 0.6 s
- Detection
- 1 m
- Video
- 1080p/24fps
A close-focus camera built for bird boxes, feeders and small mammals rather than open trails: it focuses from 0.2 m and its sensor and 940nm IR only …
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Browning
Browning Dark Ops Pro DCL Nano
- Mid-range
- No-glow
- 4K video
- Trigger
- 0.15 s
- Detection
- Not published
- Video
- 4K (frame rate not stated)
The no-glow version of Browning's dual-lens Nano, pairing a day lens and a dedicated low-light lens with an invisible infrared flash. It is small, qu…
Guides
All topics- Choosing a camera2 guides
- Setting up & settings4 guides
- Watching wildlife3 guides
- Security, privacy & the law3 guides
- Batteries, cards & accessories4 guides
- Security, privacy & the law Wildlife law and trail cameras: what UK owners need to know Filming wildlife with a trail camera is usually perfectly legal, but disturbing certain protected animals at nests, setts, roosts and holts is a crim…
- Setting up & settings Where to place a trail camera How high, how far and which way to point a trail camera so it catches animals crossing its view, and how to avoid empty frames from sun and moving pl…
- Security, privacy & the law Trail cameras, privacy and your neighbours A trail camera that only sees your own garden is a private matter, but once it captures a neighbour's property, a shared drive or the street, UK data…
- Choosing a camera How to choose a trail camera Work out what you want to film and where, then match the camera's trigger speed, night lighting, power and connectivity to that job instead of chasin…
- Watching wildlife Watching badgers and foxes responsibly Badgers and foxes make brilliant trail camera subjects, but badger setts are protected by law and feeding can cause problems for the animals and your…
- Security, privacy & the law Using a trail camera for home security A battery trail camera can keep an eye on a shed, allotment, drive or remote building where mains CCTV isn't practical. Here's what it does well, whe…
How our reviews work
We don’t test cameras ourselves, and we won’t pretend to. Each camera page is a research review:
- The maker’s specifications from their own product page or manual, with anything they call “interpolated” or a claim marked as such.
- What published reviews found (independent, or labelled as a retailer review), summarised in our words with a link.
- Strengths, weaknesses and who it suits, drawn from those sources.
- Sources and a checked date on every page, and no prices or star ratings.
Where we haven’t found a published review yet, the page is labelled a spec profile instead.