Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, had a pet badger called Josiah. Apparently, Josiah was given to the president as a cub in 1903 by a little girl in Kansas. Roosevelt was on a tour of the country at the time, and when his train stopped and he stepped out of the [...]
Archive for January, 2009
The White House Badger
Posted in Background, tagged President, Roosevelt, White House on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have a go at tracking a badger
Posted in Tracking on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This Sunday I found a lovely clear set of badger tracks from the field behind my house. It seems this badger has a longer route than I thought, and it’s making me think about where its sett could be located. If you want to have a go at tracking a badger, have a look at [...]
First egg of the season!
Posted in Diary Post on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, one of my chickens laid the first egg of the new year. What has this to do with badgers, you ask? Absolutely nothing. But this is my diary after all, and this is a date I want to keep track of, so here it is for posterity. For the curious, chickens stop laying in [...]
Why do badgers use paths?
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged badger, badger path on January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thinking about the badger sett has got me thinking about badger paths. Badger paths are an absolutely classic sign of an active sett. Badgers are well-known to be creatures of habit, and will follow the same route night after night and even generation after generation until the vegetation is worn away and quite deep paths [...]
Fieldnotes: 11th January 2009 – The badger sett in January
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, badger sett, Kruuk, sett on January 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The weather today has been much warmer than of late. It was a cold night, but the sun came out and the temperature went up to 8 degrees or so. It doesn’t sound much, but compared to the last couple of weeks it feels almost tropical! I went on my usual Sunday morning dawn stroll [...]
Fieldnotes: 4th-10th January 2009 – Badger tracks in snow
Posted in Fieldnotes, Tracking on January 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Well, we’re ten days into 2009, and so far the only way to describe the year is ‘cold’. The temperatures have not been much above freezing for two weeks, with night-time temperatures as low as -10 degrees Celsius. I spent the New Year on the North Wales coast. Normally this part of the country is [...]
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