We have a standing joke in our house. About four years ago my father-in-law kindly bought us an irrigation system for the garden – a very nice one, with a hose and individual little sprinklers. Since then, every time we plan to install it, nature responds with prolonged rain that makes it entirely unnecessary. The [...]
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Fieldnotes: 21st April 2012 – First Cub of the Year
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, badger cub on April 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Fieldnotes: 9th April 2012 – Rain, rain, go away
Posted in Fieldnotes, Thoughts and Musings on April 9, 2012 | 10 Comments »
‘Live by the foma [harmless untruths] that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy‘ Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle . Most of the time I like to think I’m a positive chap, or at least I’m generally cynical in a cheerful kind of way. But every now and then I have one of those moments [...]
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). [...]
Fieldnotes: 1st April 2012 – The Main Sett Again
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badgers, fox poo on April 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Today has turned out to be a glorious, sunny spring day. A day for being outdoors, if ever there was one. Mrs BWM kindly took parenting duty and I headed off up to the wood. It’s definitely spring now. The first leaves are on the trees, the lambs are playing in the fields and the [...]
Fieldnotes: 18th February 2012 – Hunter and Hunted
Posted in Fieldnotes on February 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The steady rain that had drizzled down for most of the day cleared up in the afternoon to leave sunshine and a clear blue sky. Shortly after 4.00pm I left Scarlett and Mrs BWM having a quiet nap on the sofa and set out for the wood. After the snow and the cold weather of [...]
Finally, a Badger Sighting on my Road
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger on January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
There’s a badger sett near my house. I don’t know where it is (although I have my suspicions) but I know it is there and I know it is near. For some years now, I’ve been tracking a badger across the field behind my house, where at least one has a regular foraging route. There [...]
Fieldnotes: 28th January 2012 – Badger Curiosity
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger watching, badgers, winter on January 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening . I don’t know if Robert Frost ever watched badgers. Probably not, but he knew the lure of the woods [...]
Happy New Year – Red Squirrels and a Birdwatching Pilgrimage
Posted in Birds, Fieldnotes, tagged Anglesey, birdwatching, Lapwings, Malltraeth, Newborough Forest, red squirrel, Tunnicliffe on January 3, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Happy New Year! It’s been a hectic Christmas, but I saw in the New Year in my own style. While the rest of the world was sleeping off the excesses of the night before, I was up before dawn on January 1st, sitting in a forest waiting for Red Squirrels. I was back in Anglesey [...]
Fieldnotes: 19th November 2011 – The Inner Game of Badger Watching
Posted in Fieldnotes, Thoughts and Musings, tagged badger watching, folk songs, man-eating leopard on November 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
‘Wrong estimation of the intelligence of animals, and the inability to sit without making any sound or movement for the required length of time, is the cause of all failures when sitting up for animals.’ Jim Corbett, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag . Oh, my hat is frozen to my head, my feet are like [...]
Fieldnotes: 4th November – Siege Tactics at the Hawthorn Sett
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, badger watching, fallow deer on November 4, 2011 | 7 Comments »
OK. So far, I haven’t much success with the badgers at the Hawthorn Sett. I have yet to answer the fundamental question of how many badgers there are. If I can find this out, I can see how it changes over the year to come. It’s part of my overall master plan to understand more [...]
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