Posted in Uncategorized, tagged badgers, birds, loxley common, loxley valley, mammals, my patch, rants, sheffield, surveys, wadsley common on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
On Saturday I went for a walk around the tetrad I’m surveying for the Sheffield Bird Study Group (tetrad SK28Z). It was a bit of a dingy day, and there wasn’t too much about, but still managed to see a couple of highlights. Including:
A reed bunting on Rowell Lane, just outside the tetrad. The first I’ve [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged badgers, birds, mammals, my patch, sheffield on March 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I saw my first badger in ages last night - I got back from the pub around 11.15, and saw one ambling around the front of the house and scaring the bejesus out of a cat that was out for the night. It’s good to see they’re still around.
Three singing chiffchaffs on Loxley Road on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged badgers, garden, mammals, sheffield on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Readers of my old version of this blog will remember I got very excited last summer by a visiting badger to my garden. I caught a glimpse of it one night as I was turning off the downstairs lights, and we had great views of it almost every night for a good few weeks. We left it some peanuts [...]
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