I’ve been away for a while with work, so I’m late catching up with my correspondence. Sheila, Rick and Mrs B – thank you for your comments and apologies for being so slow in replying. I always enjoy hearing about other people’s experiences, so please keep them coming. Somewhat accidentally, I now have an international [...]
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Last of the snow tracks – the New Jersey mystery
Posted in Tracking on January 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Fieldnotes: 10th January 2010 – The Little Ice Age
Posted in Fieldnotes, Tracking on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For the past week the country has been gripped in a little ice age. An area of high pressure has settled over Britain, trapping cold air and snow, blocking out the prevailing warm south-westerly winds. Temperatures as low as -20c have been recorded (my family in Cheshire experienced -14c) coupled with up to a foot [...]
Fieldnotes: 19th December 2009 – Tracks in the snow
Posted in Tracking, tagged dog, fox, snow, Tracking, tracks on December 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Last year I had the opportunity to visit Toronto, in Canada, on a fleeting business trip. I must say, it’s a very nice city and the people were wonderful. But one thing puzzled me. The whole downtown area was connected by miles of subways. It was possible to walk from one side of the city [...]
Project Hedgehog – An Experimental Track Trap
Posted in Tracking, tagged hedgehog, Tracking on September 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Things have been a little quiet around here since we’ve got the new addition to the family. Scarlett and I have been out for a few walks already, but I’ll wait until she’s settled into more of a routine before I get back to any serious badgerology. In the meantime, here’s a post from the [...]
Fieldnotes: 2nd August 2009 – A scientific approach to tracking badgers
Posted in Fieldnotes, Tracking, tagged badger tracks, Tracking on August 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I haven’t had the chance to get out badger watching this week. I’ve been continuing work on my shelves (and very nice they look too) and we had a dinner party last night, so the badgers have taken a bit of a back seat. It was a bit of an effort to get out of [...]
Badger tracking
Posted in Fieldnotes, Tracking, tagged badger, deer, fox, track, Tracking on July 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You may recall that I dealt with a roadkill badger a couple of weeks ago. I was concerned that the badger had been killed next to a field that forms part of my usual Sunday morning tracking/ birdwatching walk, and I hoped that the dead badger wasn’t the one that I had become accustomed to [...]
Fieldnotes: 2nd February 2009 – I’m just going out for a short walk…
Posted in Fieldnotes, Tracking on February 3, 2009 | 6 Comments »
On Monday it snowed. We had about 4-6 inches of snow, but it was enough to paralyse the whole of the UK. Everything ground to a halt – the roads jammed up or closed, the trains were cancelled, and even the London buses stopped running for the first time ever. I woke up at 5.30am [...]
Have a go at tracking a badger
Posted in Tracking on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This Sunday I found a lovely clear set of badger tracks from the field behind my house. It seems this badger has a longer route than I thought, and it’s making me think about where its sett could be located. If you want to have a go at tracking a badger, have a look at [...]
Fieldnotes: 4th-10th January 2009 – Badger tracks in snow
Posted in Fieldnotes, Tracking on January 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Well, we’re ten days into 2009, and so far the only way to describe the year is ‘cold’. The temperatures have not been much above freezing for two weeks, with night-time temperatures as low as -10 degrees Celsius. I spent the New Year on the North Wales coast. Normally this part of the country is [...]
How to make plaster casts of animal tracks
Posted in Practical Guides, Tracking on December 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve always wanted to try plaster casting animal tracks. I don’t know why, it just seems like an interesting thing to do. I suppose it would be a useful skill if I ever come across a really rare track of say, a bigfoot or puma. Neither is very likely in Bedfordshire, but you never know. [...]
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