As you’ll have gathered, I’m interested in my local wildlife. This means that I go out and try to find different species. Sometimes, however, the wildlife comes to me. And it isn’t always welcome. Yesterday, our cat, Mayfield, caught a young rat. This is fine – this is part of her job, keeping the vermin [...]
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Rattus Norvegicus
Posted in Background, tagged Rat on February 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The Handbook
Posted in Background on January 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Christmas may seem a long time ago as I sit writing this in late January, but I bring it up because my Christmas present has arrived. After some amalgamation of gifts from various people over the last few years I have bought myself a copy of Mammals of the British Isles: Handbook by S. Harris [...]
3rd January 2011 – Welcome to the New Year
Posted in Background, Fieldnotes, Tracking on January 3, 2011 | 6 Comments »
It’s a belated Happy New Year actually, as we’re three days into 2011 already. I’ve had a great time with friends and family over Christmas and the New Year and things are settling back into a more normal routine. The cold weather broke a couple of days after Christmas. Christmas day was on Saturday; by [...]
Happy Winter Solstice 2010!
Posted in Background on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well, here we are again. The shortest day of the year. And it really does feel like midwinter with the snow and the deep frost outside. It’s definitely a night for staying inside in the warmth and light, for celebrating turning the corner of the year. From tomorrow, the days start to get longer again. [...]
All-Terrain Baby Buggies – What are they for, really?
Posted in Background on October 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
There is one piece of kit that is absolutely essential for the middle-class dad, and that’s a fancy baby buggy. It’s as if new dads, facing the reality that they won’t be getting a sports car any time soon, channel their masculine pride into getting the baby equivalent of a Ferrari. The most popular are [...]
Court of Appeal declares proposed Welsh badger cull unlawful
Posted in Background on July 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Good news from the Badger Trust… Campaigners were celebrating today as the Court of Appeal handed down judgment finding the proposed Welsh badger cull to be unlawful on all three grounds they raised on appeal. On 5 July, the Welsh Ministers had conceded the appeal on the basis of one of three grounds: that the [...]
What time do badgers come out?
Posted in Background, Thoughts and Musings, tagged badger, badger watching, sett on June 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Watching badgers, in theory, should be quite simple. All you need to do is to find an active sett and be there (suitably downwind and out of sight) when the badgers come out in the evening. I’ve covered the first part – finding an active sett – in an earlier post (see How to Recognise [...]
Wildest Hide and Seek – your chance to join in with a wildlife survey
Posted in Background, tagged Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, WWT on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m always happy to help out with spreading awareness of wildlife-related projects, so here is one that is worth looking at – one that everyone can join in with. The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is asking people across the UK to help with their ‘Wildest Hide & Seek’ study, which is looking at the [...]
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
Posted in Background on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Now, May has to be one of the best months, if not the best month, in the badger watcher’s calendar. The evenings are getting longer and warmer, the badgers are coming out while it is still light, giving you great views, and the year’s cubs are out and getting playful and adventurous. So how come [...]
Tales From the Wood gets political
Posted in Background, tagged badgers, Nadine Dorries on April 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Normally I don’t have much to do with politics. At best I look on the whole process with a sort of idle, morbid curiosity. However, I have noticed that general elections seem to coincide with politicians paying some interest to the views of the people they represent (put it this way, the last time I [...]
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