[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Most night photography of wildlife is done with infrared illuminators and cameras.This is invisible to the animals and hence doesn't disturb their feeding or other behaviour. Some security cameras come with integral IR lighting. Then you need some sort of frame grabbing software to record it.

Also look up trail cameras, placed unattended by hunters to survey wildlife.

You could try the subtle lighting. The night setting on some videocams results in a very slow long exposure and hence blurred vision of objects in rapid motion. Most handycams go noisy in low light due to their small ccd's.

Sounds like a nice lifestyle!

Joe