I’ve been busy building shelves today so I didn’t have time for badger watching in the evening. However, this did give me the perfect excuse to go out after dark and try out my night vision scope. Having used it out in the field I’m now in a better position to evaluate it. Like most [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Fieldnotes: 25th July 2009 – First night vision session
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badgers, night vision on July 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The night belongs to me…
Posted in Background, tagged night vision on July 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I mentioned that my efforts to track down and watch badgers after they have left the sett have only been quite fleeting so far. Well, things are going to change. To celebrate my 2½ week anniversary in my new job, I’ve bought myself a night vision scope. Check out this bad boy: Actually, I’ve been [...]
Bird Update
Posted in Birds, tagged Birds, birdwatching, Blackcap, Goldfinch, Treecreeper on July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Just a quick note to say that my birdwatching efforts are progressing nicely. Ever since we started putting out niger seeds for the birds last year, we’ve had a regular gang of Goldfinches visiting the garden. They’re very good-looking birds, and they have an amazing capacity for sitting on the feeder and eating steadily for [...]
Badger tracking
Posted in Fieldnotes, Tracking, tagged badger, deer, fox, track, Tracking on July 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You may recall that I dealt with a roadkill badger a couple of weeks ago. I was concerned that the badger had been killed next to a field that forms part of my usual Sunday morning tracking/ birdwatching walk, and I hoped that the dead badger wasn’t the one that I had become accustomed to [...]
Fieldnotes: 18th July 2009 – Birds and beasts
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, buzzard, fox, sett, Video on July 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I think it’s time I got back to some serious badgerology. I was up at the wood on Saturday, and an interesting evening it was too. Firstly, the badgers have started feeding on the wheat in the wheat field. This seems to become a regular food source as soon as it ripens. The badgers seem [...]
Drunken Badgers
Posted in Background, tagged drunk badgers on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m getting a little worried about the decline in moral standards on this blog. I seem to have become fixated on badger genitalia. It’s only a matter of time before someone sends a letter to the Daily Mail – “My daughter was researching a school project on badgers and all she found was a video [...]
Fieldnotes: 11th July 2009 – The county show and a definitely male badger
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, Bedfordshire County Show on July 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s been a busy week, what with my new job, rushing around buying new suits and train tickets, painting the house and making jam. Nevertheless, I made time for some R&R today. First on the agenda was the Bedfordshire County Show. This is more of a country fair than a proper agricultural show – there [...]
9th July 2009 – Fine Jam Abounds
Posted in Background on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re jamming I wanna jam it with you, We’re jamming, jamming And I hope you like jamming too (Bob Marley) OK, this is another one of those diary posts. Over the last week my wife and I have picked 2.6kg of blackcurrants. After freezing some this left a nice, round 2kg for making jam. I [...]
Fieldnotes: 3rd July 2009 – Stalking badgers by moonlight
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badgers, moonlight on July 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last night I went for a walk around 11.00pm to see if I could spot the badgers foraging in the pasture field, although if I’m honest with myself this was just an excuse to get outside. There is something truly magical about being outdoors on a summer night. It was a beautiful, clear, warm night [...]
Fieldnotes: 1st July 2009 – A pattern emerges
Posted in Fieldnotes, Video, tagged badger, fox, muntjac on July 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday was another beautiful warm evening. 7.45pm found me sitting contentedly up a tree at the main sett, drinking tea and making running repairs to my camouflage gloves with a needle and thread. A more blissful domestic scene could not be imagined. I’d taken a detour around the wood earlier in the evening to check [...]
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