Getting even further away from badgers, but another date for the diary. I left my job today. I’d been there nearly ten years, so it was a wrench to go. They are good people. On Monday I start a new job as Director of Talent Management for a well-respected firm of business psychologists in London. [...]
Archive for June, 2009
30th June 2009: A new job
Posted in Background on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
29th June: Picking raspberries
Posted in Diary Post on June 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been writing this blog for a little over a year, and I enjoy it a lot. It started out as a way to record wildlife observations (it’s a good thing to do but I’m terribly undisciplined at keeping paper notes) as well as way to prove to my wife that I’m not up to [...]
Fieldnotes: 28th June 2009 – Badgers, muntjac and thunderstorms
Posted in Fieldnotes, That's not a badger!, tagged badger, muntjac on June 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a weekend of extremes as far as the weather has gone. It has been very hot and very humid, with long periods of sunshine giving way to thunderstorms in the evenings. Although we haven’t had any rain ourselves, it has been torrential in places nearby. One friend had his car alarm set off [...]
24th June 2009 – Another badger dead on the road
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, road death on June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My wife came home from a late shift tonight and told me that there was a badger dead on the main road, not more than 100 yards from the end of our road. I’m not particularly keen on going out at 11.30pm and examining dead badgers, but I couldn’t leave it there. Plus, now that [...]
Fieldnotes: 24th June 2009 – Back to the main sett
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, badger watching on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been in Scotland for a few days, but today I was most definitely back in England. As I walked through the village there was a game of cricket being played on the village green, while the church bells rang out in the summer evening air. It was the quintessential English scene. If I was [...]
Fast worms – Slow worms – Glow worms? – No worms!
Posted in That's not a badger! on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent the last couple of nights wandering around the fields and green lanes of our village looking for glow worms. It is just over a year since I saw glow worms in Berkshire. I was very impressed by them and I’d like to see more. The trouble is that my village isn’t quite the [...]
A Monster Weekend at Loch Ness
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged Inverness, Loch Ness, Loch Ness Monster, monster, Tim Dinsdale, Torquil Macleod on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For more years than I care to remember I’ve celebrated the summer solstice in true and outrageously pagan style at one of the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge. This year, however, I swapped the ritual of standing slightly bleary-eyed and hungover, waiting for the Wiltshire dawn to peep over the horizon, for the [...]
Birds of Bedfordshire: No.45 – The Dunnock
Posted in Birds, That's not a badger!, tagged Bedfordshire, Birds, birdwatching, dunnock, twitcher on June 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s confession time again. I’ve been guilty of occasional birdwatching for many years. Nothing too serious – putting out food in the garden, listening to birdsong, watching the buzzards over the fields – the usual stuff. I thought I could handle it. But now I’ve crossed a line. I’ve joined the hardcore of birdwatching. I’ve [...]
A rather good local nature blog
Posted in Background on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across this site the other day, and I think that it’s definitely worthy of a mention. Ampthill Wild Steve writes about the local wildlife here in Bedfordshire, backed up with some great pictures. More importantly, he’s out there getting people interested in the animals on their doorstep. You don’t have to be in [...]
The Bedfordshire Badger Network
Posted in Background, tagged Bedfordshire Badger Network, conservation on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having watched badgers for a few years now, I’ve decided that I want to do my bit for the badgers in my area. I am pleased to say that I have joined the Bedfordshire Badger Network. Affiliated to the Bedfordshire Natural History Society, the Network is run by volunteers who give up their time to [...]
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