I don’t know if it’s just me, or if anyone else has noticed, but the Blackthorn flowers seem particularly splendid this year. The blossoms appeared early but they’ve been in full flower for a good few weeks now, lining the hedgerows in white while the other trees are just coming into bud. The Blackthorn is, [...]
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The Blackthorn Winter and Manure in the Vegetable Garden
Posted in Background, Diary Post, tagged blackthorn, blackthorn winter, Manure, vegetable garden on April 15, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Fieldnotes: 7th April 2012 – Badgers in Cheshire
Posted in Background, Fieldnotes, tagged badger sett, badgers, Cheshire, Cheshire Badgers, Chester Zoo, Delamere Forest on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just returned from a very pleasant Easter break with my parents up in Cheshire. We’ve had a great time, with Scarlett having plenty of space to run around in, Timmy the dog to play with, and a visit to Chester Zoo to see the elephants and tigers (and the Giant Otters are highly recommended). [...]
News Round Up
Posted in Background, Birds, Road Casualties, tagged badger, Parakeet, Road Casualty on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Well well. Here we are on March 21st. The Spring Equinox. Hasn’t the year flown by? It seems like only the other day that we had snow and ice, and now the days are longer, the trees are in bud and the Blackthorn is in flower. It seems that spring has well and truly arrived. [...]
Beavers and Badgers
Posted in Background, Tracking, tagged badgers, Beaver Scouts, Tracking on March 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I admit that most of have my wildlife adventures have been solitary ones. This isn’t because I am by nature a loner, although sitting on your own outdoors is quite soothing, and it is true that one person can be a lot stealthier than a group. No, one of the main reasons for me being [...]
Field Vole (they’re not called ‘Kitchen Voles’ for a reason)
Posted in Background on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The wildlife event of the day has been our cat Mayfield, delightful little psychopath that she is, bringing a live field vole into the house. Mrs BWM spotted the cat acting suspiciously and cornered both cat and vole in the kitchen, at which point the vole, doubtless having watched too many 1950s cartoons, ran up [...]
Bizarre ‘Roadkill’
Posted in Background on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Regular readers may have noticed my unhealthy interest in dead animals by the roadside. I’m the first to admit that it isn’t always very pleasant, and probably does nothing to endear me to passers-by, but roadkill does provide a durable record of species in the area and the opportunity to examine individual animals at close [...]
The Wildlife Liaison Officer
Posted in Background, tagged Police, Wildlife Liaison Officer on October 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
We had an interesting meeting of the Bedfordshire Badger Network this week. In addition to the usual badger matters, we were joined by a Police Inspector – the Wildlife Liaison Officer for Bedfordshire. Police Wildlife Liaison Officers are responsible for all wildlife-related crime, which thankfully is rare in Bedfordshire. There has been the odd incident [...]
The Village Cider Collective 2011
Posted in Background, Diary Post, tagged apples, brewing, cider, cider making, village on September 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It seems that autumn is here, despite the warm weather of the last few days. The leaves are turning on the trees and hedgerows, most of the harvest is in (we’ve been gorging on blackberries for weeks!) and there’s a definite chill in the morning air. The summer seems to have flown by. But every [...]
Sore Toe Update
Posted in Background on July 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some good news! Having persisted with my sore toe for a week, in which the antibiotics made no impact whatsoever, I sought a second (and hopefully more competent) medical opinion. The second doctor sent me for X-rays, so after a fun evening at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, it was revealed that I have neither [...]
A grumpy old man with a sore toe
Posted in Background on July 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My attempts to live my life as a Victorian gentleman have taken another step forward this week. In addition to wearing a tweed waistcoat and a deerstalker hat (plus the mutton-chop whiskers that Mrs BWM won’t let me grow), I now seem to have developed gout. Gout is a very Victorian illness, but somehow more [...]
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