First of all, thanks Ghillie and Josie for your comments on the last post. Sorry I haven’t got around to replying sooner. The consensus is that the badger at the Pine Tree sett could well be Nick, but I guess we’ll never know for sure. What I need is some sort of badger face recognition [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Fieldnotes: 30th August 2009 – Undisturbed by badgers
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger watching, camouflage on August 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Chinese Water Deer
Posted in That's not a badger!, tagged Bedfordshire, Chinese Water Deer on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a picture of a Chinese Water Deer that was in the field behind my house this morning. Now the wheat has been harvested they’re much more visible. These little deer are a naturalised species here in Bedfordshire, having escaped from the nearby Woburn Deer Park. This is a female – the males have impressive [...]
Fieldnotes: 23rd August 2009 – Camera shy badger
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, badger watching on August 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So, my plan was a simple one. Spend the evening down at the north entrance of the Pine Tree sett, photograph the resident badger, and match the pictures of its distinctive facial markings with those of ‘Nick‘ from the main sett last year. If the markings are the same then there’s a good chance that [...]
Hares and hazelnuts
Posted in Fieldnotes on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most people think I’m crazy for getting up at 6.00am on a Sunday, but I like it. It’s my own time – time stolen back from the busy weekend, before I get tied up in the hundred things that I need to do. It’s a fine time to be outside, to be with the animals [...]
BBC Countryfile Magazine Top 50 British Wildlife Websites
Posted in Background, tagged BBC, Countryfile on August 19, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The BBC Countryfile Magazine has just published its list of the top 50 British wildlife websites and I’m pleased to say that they’ve selected Tales from the Wood as one of the top 10 mammal websites. Blimey. I don’t know what to say. This is all very unexpected. I’m just a (very) amateur naturalist. I’m [...]
Fieldnotes: 15th August 2009 – A blank at the Pine Tree sett
Posted in Fieldnotes on August 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Once again I swapped a relaxing Saturday evening for the dubious pleasures of sitting in a patch of nettles and being ferociously bitten by mosquitoes. To make matters worse, I didn’t see hide nor hair of a badger. To use the fishing expression, I ‘blanked’. Let me explain. I’ve been down at the Pine Tree [...]
Fieldnotes: 8th August 2009 – Sex
Posted in Fieldnotes, Video, tagged badgers, badgers mating, mating, sex on August 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
OK. So maybe you’re thinking that the title of this post is a shameless and none-too-subtle attempt to increase the web traffic to this blog. Perhaps you’re right. But read on for the full story. Today I finally finished the shelves that have taken up quite a lot of my time recently – ten shelves [...]
A second-hand polecat
Posted in That's not a badger! on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My wife called me up when I was at work the other day, and told me that she’d just seen a polecat crossing the road in front of her car as she drove through a nearby village. Now, as I’ve mentioned before, my wife doesn’t quite share my obsession with the local wildlife, but she’s [...]
Fieldnotes: 2nd August 2009 – A scientific approach to tracking badgers
Posted in Fieldnotes, Tracking, tagged badger tracks, Tracking on August 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I haven’t had the chance to get out badger watching this week. I’ve been continuing work on my shelves (and very nice they look too) and we had a dinner party last night, so the badgers have taken a bit of a back seat. It was a bit of an effort to get out of [...]
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