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at about 7 15pm and disappearing into the wood rather than staying in the open but at least i was outside and watching badgers the badger sett in the hedge line across the valley real long range badger watching on the way home i passed the village notice board and saw an leaflet for a talk on ecology to be held in ampthill on saturday by the cpre being wholly without commitments this weekend and open to a chance to learn something new i went along how decadent and a fascinating talk it turned out to be the speaker was hugh warwick hedgehog expert who spoke about the issue of fragmenting habitat and its impact on a range of species he is a very entertaining and informative speaker so if you ever get the chance to hear him do so as well as some solid ecological science and wonderful wildlife anecdotes he had some interesting observations on badgers for instance the folk tale that if you have a lot of badgers in the area then you won t have a lot of hedgehogs is confirmed by research but it isn t just that badgers eat hedgehogs it is more complicated it seems that if resources are plentiful then the two species co exist in competition but if resources dip below a certain level the relationship becomes predator prey interesting stuff i bought a couple of his books from him too so i ve got some good reading to look forward to inspired by this i went up to the badger sett on saturday evening there was evidence of activity fresh spoil and the like but i only saw one solitary badger that emerged at 7 40 and ambled off straight away at least it was a badger though and i can t complain seeing as how i haven t been up there for almost a year i really should get here more often there is a badger in here if you look closely sunday was too nice a day to waste too after working the garden for most of the day i took a stroll to the lake in the evening just to be out in the spring countryside one of the local buzzards was making the most of the fine weather too buzzard in the blue sky the lake was home to a flock of geese greylags and some canada geese nothing rare but good to see nonetheless there s been a flock of these in the neighborhood lately so the lake is obviously their current haunt greylag geese on the lake here s something i haven t noticed before these are holes in a dead ash tree i m assuming they were made by a woodpecker they were 25 feet off the ground do they nest in these holes they re too big to be just in search of food woodpecker holes i presume i lingered around a bit after sunset in the hope of catching the barn owl that lives around here but with no luck and it s chilly after the sun goes down it was just me in a field with just chinese water deer for company six of these little deer all dotted around in the growing cereal oddly they didn t seem to interact with each other at all they all kept separate chinese water deer they always look slightly startled it doesn t matter if it wasn t the most exciting walk in terms of wildlife seen it was nice to just be out and about on a nice spring day posted in fieldnotes tagged badger sett badgers 3 comments fieldnotes 26th may 2013 back after a long absence may 26 2013 by badger watching man it s the whitsun bank holiday weekend and the weather has been glorious the village open air swimming pool opened for the summer today and it s been warm enough for scarlett and me to have a splash around in fact it s the first weekend for ages that it s been both light enough in the evenings and pleasant enough weather to go out i haven t been out lately due to family commitments badger watching time coincides neatly with bedtime for a three year old so that s curtailed things a little but today was too nice to miss mrs bwm wasn t working so i asked her to take my parenting duties and headed off to the wood to see if the badgers were still around after successfully breeding last year i m less worried about them but i still wanted to get out the bluebells are out cuckoos are calling and it s generally a nice time to be in the woods having been away from the sett for half a year i didn t know what to expect there were signs of active digging at both the east and west ends but the badgers still surprised me at 7 30pm five badgers popped out of an unremarkable hole at the south side of the middle of the sett i haven t seen any serious badger activity at this hole before but it is the same hole in which the fox reared a litter of cubs four years ago see https badgerwatcher com 2009 05 10 fieldnotes 10th may 2009 more fox cubs blimey four years hasn t time flown anyhow i counted five badgers including at least one cub why do i say at least one cub well as always badgers are damn difficult to count they don t stay still they hide in undergrowth so you can only see part of them and they re constantly nipping off and coming back again hence i can be sure there was one cub but there may have been more the maximum number of badgers i saw at one time was five so that s what i m calling the badgers were relaxed and happy there was a lot of grooming playing and play fighting this got quite funny and endearing for instance two badgers chasing each other around the trunk of a tree or one badger climbing on a fallen tree and jumping on another as it walked underneath i know that play has a serious purpose in training animals for the real world but badgers often seem like they re playing for the sheer joy of it after half an hour or so the play stopped and serious work began the badgers were collecting a lot of bedding shuffling backwards with paws full of dead leaves it occurred to me that this is the first dry spell we ve had for a while so they may have been taking advantage of the warm weather to get a clean dry bed as well as the bedding they spent a lot of time foraging for food this is always fascinating to watch the badgers were snuffling in the leaves digging out the soil and turning over dead wood to get at insect underneath in the soft leaf mould they often seemed to be ploughing furrows with their noses to get at choice morsels i was treated to some good close up views i was sitting in a tree with badgers snuffling around and underneath me hence the unusual top down view as the church clock struck nine the badgers moved off time for me to go too it s good to know that the badgers are healthy and happy and very good to spend time with them again posted in fieldnotes tagged badgers 1 comment a wallaby in bedfordshire may 23 2013 by badger watching man ok yeah i know it s been a while i can t make excuses other than to say that running a family and career takes almost all my time these days anyhow something happened this morning that is worthy of recording for posterity mrs bwm left for the early shift at work about half a mile from the house she came across the body of a dead animal by the side of the road now roadkill deer are pretty common in these parts mostly muntjac and chinese water deer and you quickly get used to them but mrs bwm has obviously picked up some of my roadkill obsession because she had a good look as she drove past and it wasn t a deer it had a big long tail and little short front legs in her words there s a bl dy dead kangaroo on the road she s a great wife and she snapped a pic with her phone bedfordshire wallaby yup it s a dead kangaroo actually i m no expert but i m guessing it s a wallaby i m also guessing that it s an escapee from the nearby safari park there s a rumour that there are a fair number of them living wild in the local area this isn t so far fetched there are a number of naturalised wallaby colonies in the uk and frankly so many species have escaped from woburn over the years and become naturalised from muntjac to wels catfish that one more isn t surprising mind you if there were more of these in the area then i d have expected to either have seen one or heard about them if wallabies are hopping across the main road like this one did albeit unsuccessfully then you d think more people would notice as it is there is someone in bedfordshire now who is trying to explain that they got the dent in their car from crashing into a kangaroo last night posted in road casualties tagged bedfordshire roadkill wallaby 7 comments on the importance of habitat or a woburn safari october 7 2012 by badger watching man i count myself fortunate to have witnessed the re establishment of red kites in this part of bedfordshire i saw the first one here only a few years ago and it was a real event for me now while not exactly abundant they are more common there have been times over the summer when i ve watched a kite from the comfort of my sofa through the french windows however we ve recently discovered a spot not too far away where you can see the red kites almost on demand it s only in one small localised area and it s a great example of how habitat and food availability shapes the distribution of a species i ll explain we ve recently got a season ticket for woburn safari park it s on our doorstep they offer a good deal on an annual toddler pass and scarlett is old enough now to appreciate the animals and the indoor play area it means i can go with scarlett to the library on a saturday morning and drive home through the safari park just for the fun of it the carnivore enclosure is always a favourite with bears wolves tigers lions and red kites yes the kites seem to have taken up residence here on my last visit there were three of them circling and swooping low over the park why do they gather at this spot and not anywhere else in the vicinity here s a clue the wolf has just picked up its breakfast the animals in this part of the park are fed on meat it s the carnivore enclosure red kites are carrion feeders obviously the wolves and bears and lions leave enough scraps for the kites to feed on they ve found a regular source of food and are making the most of it hence we ve got a concentration of them in this small area whilst my house which is no distance at all away for a kite gets relatively few it seems a bit odd to have to go to a safari park to see a wild bird but it shows that nature finds a way and it has helped me to get my best picture of a red kite so far i did have to take it through the car window though getting out for a closer view wasn t really an option posted in birds tagged red kite woburn safari park wolf leave a comment a quick catch up on events september 2 2012 by badger watching man just a few quick notes to show that i m still here and i haven t been killed off by bovine tb or a virulent disease caught from a dead animal by the roadside but another month has gone by and what s the closest i ve got to a badger that s right the nearest i ve been to a badger is my shaving brush and even that isn t very close arguably the finest shaving brushes are made from badger hair but mine isn t it didn t seem right somehow anyhow suffice it to say that i haven t been near badgers lately actually this isn t strictly true there s been a couple of road casualties one of which i had to move off the road this was an adult female in the spot that i saw a live badger in february last year the other was in the usual spot for road casualties around here the big wood where there have been most of the deaths there must be a very substantial sett in this wood to sustain this number of road casualties over the years what else has happened i got an unexpected parcel through the door the other day it was a book urban mammals a concise guide by david wembridge it s published by the people s trust for endangered species and it s a great book a thoughtful and informed look at the common and not so common urban species from foxes to bats why did it come through my door well it wasn t entirely unexpected to be honest i was contacted by the trust a few months ago who had found this blog and asked me if they could use some of my pictures in the book of course i was happy to help a worthwhile charity they used the pictures and in return they sent me a copy of the book i m very grateful and it is a very good book what else there have been a lot of buzzards flying over the house lately i hear them mewing as i sit in our living room one day i looked out to see what looked at first sight to be a seagull but on second glance seemed to be a very pale almost white buzzard it had drifted out of sight by the time i d dashed in and returned with the camera there were reports of a white buzzard in the area a while ago so perhaps this was it what else on the subject of birds i took scarlett to the lake at woburn to feed the ducks today there s a family of black swans in residence that are interesting to see black swans are introductions from australia which fits with them being on an estate lake and given all the other species the dukes of bedford have introduced the rspb website says they rarely breed in the uk but these ones obviously have done anyhow after throwing in bread for a good five minutes i looked to the side and there was a heron perched on a tree quite oblivious to us there s a lesson to me to be more observant next time i ll be back soon there s a whole bunch of correspondence i need to catch up on too so bear with me posted in background birds road casualties 1 comment fieldnotes 30th june 2012 good news from the sett june 30 2012 by badger watching man a professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the time sir arthur conan doyle a case of identity well i m back i ve been neglecting my badgers again lately i can t believe i haven t been to see them since april partly this has been due to a demanding schedule at work in the last couple of months my work has taken me from the heat of saudi arabia to the cool opulence of a boardroom by the lakeside in zurich and the offices of the united nations in vienna it s been good work and nice to see the world but it s also good to take time to reflect every now and then partly it s been due to an even more demanding two and a half year old daughter who is now old enough to prefer playing with her toys to being taken out into fields and who is also quite capable of saying so throw in mrs bwm s shift schedule and holidays and social events and there has been no time to get out to the woods but tonight i had a free evening so it was time for a long overdue trip to the badgers the day had been sunny and warm but with a threat of rain i don t get to pick and choose the days of my visits at the moment so i picked up my now repaired umbrella and was off to refresh the memory the main sett i watch has had a bit of decline over the past couple of years going from at least twelve badgers down to just three but on my last trip i saw a new cub so it looked like the numbers were increasing again would there be more cubs to be seen this time the sett is in it s full summer undergrowth so it is impossible to see all of it there were signs of activity fresh spoil and discarded bedding at the west end where i saw the cub so that s ...