Badgers can be fairly easy to get close to if you are down wind as we were. Their sense of smell is very powerful but sight and hearing are compensatingly poor. Which is why the dog's barking had no effect on him.
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Dim View
Not a promising day with morning drizzle and persistent gloom. The bare fact that today has two and a quarter minutes more daylight than yesterday hardly registers on the senses. A stag quietly browsed among heather birch and flattened bracken. Badgers are supposed to come out at dusk to feed but the fellow today had decided that the whole day qualified as dusk.
Badgers can be fairly easy to get close to if you are down wind as we were. Their sense of smell is very powerful but sight and hearing are compensatingly poor. Which is why the dog's barking had no effect on him.
Badgers can be fairly easy to get close to if you are down wind as we were. Their sense of smell is very powerful but sight and hearing are compensatingly poor. Which is why the dog's barking had no effect on him.
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I wish I'd been there to see this badger, I know of two places around Blackamoor where there are setts but it wouldn't have occurred to me to look for badgers in daylight in winter!
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