A man set up a camera to uncover what was devouring all the mushrooms in his favourite woodland only to discover the culprit was - a ravenous squirrel. <br /><br />Wildlife enthusiast Stephen Sangster, 41, works in banking, but manages a piece of woodland in his spare time.<br /><br />He realised that the mushrooms were disappearing across the forest in Sissinghurst, Kent, and set out to find out why.<br /><br />Stephen set up a wildlife camera next to one of the large mushrooms and caught a grey squirrel red-handed eating the fungi. <br /><br />Video shows the rodent approach the mushroom on the forest floor before it gorged on the whole thing.<br /><br />Stephen, who lives in Orpington, London, said: "I set the camera up as I noticed all these lovely mushrooms were very quickly disappearing in a woodland I manage in my spare time. <br /><br />"We’ve been using the nature camera to understand more about the wildlife in the wood. <br /><br />"We set the camera up and left it in position for a week. <br /><br />"When we returned yesterday the mushroom has completely gone. <br /><br />"We excitedly reviewed the footage to see find this greedy squirrel. <br /><br />"It was quite a surprise as we didn’t know squirrels enjoyed mushrooms so much. <br /><br />"We were even more surprised to see him eat the whole thing!"<br /><br />Stephen is passionate about protecting ancient woodlands and has even filmed other animals from the woodland that have featured in a Sir David Attenborough documentary.<br /><br />He added: "Last spring I shared some footage of badger cubs and the BBC came to film. <br /><br />"They ended up on the BBC documentary called Wild Isles with Sir David Attenborough narrating over them!<br /><br />"So some famous animals from this small woodland. Just goes to show how interesting and important our ancient woodlands are in the UK and why they must be protected."<br /><br />The footage was captured on August 19.
