Blimey. Three posts in a week! Don’t worry, it’s only a short one. I think I’ve just seen a Sika deer. I was driving home from work at about 7.40pm tonight, and just as I passed the small wood that contains the Hawthorn Tree Sett a deer crossed the road in front of me and [...]
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Sika Deer?
Posted in That's not a badger!, tagged Bedfordshire, fallow deer, Sika, Sika deer on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An Autumn Day at the Lake
Posted in Fieldnotes, That's not a badger! on October 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A Greek legend describes how Milo of Croton performed a famous feat of strength by carrying a fully grown bull on his shoulders. He did this by first picking up the bull when it was a new-born calf. Every day, he would pick up the calf and carry it. As the bull grew in size, [...]
More Anglesey Ramblings – Where do Seals go when the Sea is Rough?
Posted in That's not a badger!, tagged Aberffraw, Anglesey, Church in the Sea, cormorant, Porth Cwyfan, seals on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I went back to Newborough Forest again at dawn this morning, and although I spotted the red squirrels again they weren’t any more obliging for pictures. This afternoon I decided to try to find another Anglesey mammal, the grey seal. Like the red squirrel, it’s one that I’m unlikely to see in landlocked Bedfordshire*. A [...]
Fieldnotes: 7th September 2011 – The Red Squirrels of Newborough Forest
Posted in Fieldnotes, That's not a badger!, tagged Anglesey, Newborough Forest, North Wales, red squirrel, squirrel on September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
All things begin and end on Albion’s ancient, rocky, druid shore William Blake I’m on holiday on Anglesey at the moment. We arrived at the same time as the tail end of Hurricane Irene from across the atlantic, which means that the island is being lashed by rain and strong winds, adding a touch [...]
Newts in the Sandpit – Epilogue
Posted in That's not a badger!, tagged newt, sandpit, smooth newt, tracks on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just spent a very pleasant weekend with my parents up in Cheshire, so the badgers have been undisturbed this week. But this evening I have opened another chapter in the sandpit story. Remember the saga of the tracks in the sandpit a few weeks ago? Remember how what I thought was a mouse turned [...]
Tracks in the Sandpit – I was wrong
Posted in That's not a badger!, Tracking, tagged common lizard, Tracking on July 31, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday I found tracks in Scarlett’s sandpit and tentatively identified them as coming from a mouse. Well, I was wrong. Not the first time, won’t be the last either. The tail drag was the clue, but I didn’t think it through enough. One animal consistently leaves a tail drag – a lizard. I thought about [...]
Spear-mouse
Posted in That's not a badger! on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I drove to work this morning a stoat dashed across the road in front of my car (know a stoat by its black-tipped tail). This was just over the road from the field behind my house, so it was close to home. Stoats are, of course, members of the Mustelid family, along with badgers, [...]
Tortoise Reprise
Posted in That's not a badger!, tagged tortoise, Turkey on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the last of the tortoises, I promise. I finally got round to downloading some photos off my phone today, including one of this little chap – a tiny little baby tortoise. I came across him (or her – it’s very difficult to tell with tortoises) during a mountain bike ride. He’s being shy, [...]
Tortoise Safari – A Holiday Diversion
Posted in That's not a badger!, tagged tortoise, Turkey on May 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I decided to escape the hurly-burly for a little while and wander off on my own – something I do from time to time. I like to get off the beaten track. Yesterday was a new experience for me though, as I went out with the objective of tracking down and finding wild tortoises [...]
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