I don’t know what it is, but I always find this time of year a bit melancholy and dreary. The leaves are gone from the trees, the woods are quiet, the vegetable garden is sleeping and there is a cold, damp stillness over everything. Summer seems a long way off. Because of this, I decided [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Fieldnotes: 29th November 2008 – The return of the badger!
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, badger watching on November 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Do badgers hibernate?
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged badgers, hibernate on November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been asked this question quite a lot recently. People say “I’ve looked at your blog, and there doesn’t seem to be any badger-related activity since late summer. There’s all sorts of stuff about tracking deer and seeing sparrowhawks and so on, but no badgers. In a nutshell, Badger Watching Man, why are you not [...]
Fieldnotes: 16th November 2008 – Muntjac v. Chinese Water Deer – A discourse on tracking
Posted in Fieldnotes, That's not a badger!, Tracking, tagged Chinese Water Deer, muntjac, Tracking, tracks on November 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Once again, things are busy at work, and I’ve been all over the country in the last couple of weeks, bringing business psychology to the masses and having little time for wildlife at home. Today being Sunday though, I had time to get up early and go on my regular ‘dawn patrol’ walk around the [...]
Fieldnotes: 2nd November 2008 – A walk before breakfast
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, badger dung, snuffle hole on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lately I’ve taken to getting up at dawn on Sundays and going for a walk around the local area. I’d recommend it for anyone interested in wildlife. You are up and about before the human world has woken up, the nocturnal animals – and those that are shy – are still around, and any tracks [...]