Credit: SWNS / Stephen Sangster

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.

Wildlife enthusiast Stephen Sangster, 41, works in banking, but manages a piece of woodland in his spare time.

He realised that the mushrooms were disappearing across the forest in Sissinghurst, Kent, and set out to find out why.

Stephen set up a wildlife camera next to one of the large mushrooms and caught a grey squirrel red-handed eating the fungi.