As I write this I can be quite confident that in badger setts across the country, female badgers are either giving birth or getting very close to doing so. Up to mid-February is the peak time for badger births. The reason I can be so confident is that badgers have amazing control over their reproduction [...]
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Badger Reproduction and Delayed Implantation – Some Thoughts
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged badgers, delayed implantation, evolution, reproduction on February 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A Monster Weekend at Loch Ness
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged Inverness, Loch Ness, Loch Ness Monster, monster, Tim Dinsdale, Torquil Macleod on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For more years than I care to remember I’ve celebrated the summer solstice in true and outrageously pagan style at one of the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge. This year, however, I swapped the ritual of standing slightly bleary-eyed and hungover, waiting for the Wiltshire dawn to peep over the horizon, for the [...]
Fieldnotes: 6th June 2009 – This riddle winds itself ever deeper
Posted in Fieldnotes, Thoughts and Musings, tagged badger, dung, nest on June 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
OK. Time to bare my soul a little. Most people in Britain have never seen a badger. Many have seen a dead badger by the side of the road, but few ever see a live one. Of those that do, I suspect that most are content to enjoy the experience, to enjoy the badger as [...]
Fieldnotes: 30th May 2009 – A visit to the neighbours
Posted in Fieldnotes, Thoughts and Musings, tagged badger, sett on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve tried to make a point of watching one group of badgers rather than flitting around here, there and everywhere, the idea being that I should be able to learn more by getting to know one group very well. OK. Today I changed my mind slightly, and decided to go and have a look at [...]
Camouflage for watching badgers?
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged badgers, camouflage on May 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today I bought a new camouflage shirt to wear in the summer when my jacket gets too hot. Everyone knows that your clothes should be a drab green or brown (or in my case a mixture of the two with pictures of leaves on) so that you blend into the background and the wildlife can’t [...]
Should you feed badgers?
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged badgers on April 20, 2009 | 21 Comments »
This started off as a reply to a comment on my last post, but it got a bit long so I thought I’d convert it into a post of its own right. It is an interesting subject, and this isn’t really a reply to the comment so much as the train of thought it triggered [...]
The Red Kite and the Stoat
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged red kite, stoat on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Only in silence the word Only in dark the light Only in dying life Bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky Ursula Le Guin Regular readers will know that there are two species (apart from badgers) that I have been trying to see in my local area: the Red Kite and the stoat. Since [...]
Of coincidence and kites
Posted in Thoughts and Musings on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As a psychologist I find coincidences strangely intriguing. Since I started writing this blog they seem to happening regularly. Take the sparrowhawks for example; or the time I mused about never having seen a long-tailed tit and then saw a whole flock of them the very next day. My last post was about the kites [...]
Fieldnotes: 6th February 2009 – More tracks in the snow
Posted in Fieldnotes, Thoughts and Musings, tagged badger, badger latrine, badger territory on February 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Another day, another fall of snow. I took a stroll up to the pasture field tonight. The snow is 20cm deep at the top of the hill, and yet there were still the tracks of a couple of badgers. One of these tracks followed the same general route as one on Monday – out of [...]
Why do badgers use paths?
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged badger, badger path on January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thinking about the badger sett has got me thinking about badger paths. Badger paths are an absolutely classic sign of an active sett. Badgers are well-known to be creatures of habit, and will follow the same route night after night and even generation after generation until the vegetation is worn away and quite deep paths [...]
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