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- Day 21 – view a landscape
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- Day 19 – Science experiment
- On the river – Day 18 of 30 Days Wild
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- Day 16 – Early evening walk and badgers
- Scarlet Tiger moths – Day 15
- Day 14 – Butterflies
- Forest school, Day 13 of 30 Days Wild
- Walk in the woods – Day 12
- Follow a trail – Day 11
- Day 10 of 30 Days Wild – Grass verges and Orchids
- Day 9 of 30 Days Wild – Litter picking
- Plant a tree – Day 8 of 30 Days Wild
- Look under a stone or log – Day 7
- Day 6 – Listening to thunder
- Slow Motion – Day 5 of 30 Days Wild
- 30 Days Wild – Day 4 – Watching A Spider Catch Its Prey
- 30 Days Wild – Day 3 – Wild Fair
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- 30 Days Wild – Day one
- Badger watching at Wytham Woods.
- If you go down to the woods today
- Fox cubs
- Foxes
- Neighbourhood mammals
- Easter Holidays
- Badger identification
- Water Vole Day
- Spring mammals
- Little owl
- A badger and a fox
- State of Nature in Oxfordshire 2017
- Spring Equinox
- My local patch Mid March
- BBOWT – Dry Sandford Pit
- Owls and Arrow the Badger
- First Days Of March
- A Barn owl and Storm Doris
- Signs of Spring 2017
- Polecat, Badgers and a fox
- Brown rat
- Petition against the Badger cull
- Big Garden Bird Watch 2017
- Reconnecting with the Badgers
- Nearby rookery
- Catching up with my garden wildlife
- Review of 2016
- Starlings at Otmoor
- Garden wildlife
- Fieldfares and Redwings
- Red Kite hunting
- Male Kestrel
- Halloween and first week of November
- Guest blog – Australia
- Looking for fungi
- Sunny Autumn afternoon
- Hawthorn
- Benefits of Ivy
- Trail camera footage
- Dragonflies
- Back on my local patch
- Birdfair 2016
- Whale watching – Bay of Biscay
- Crickets and Grasshoppers
- Struggles and inspirations in the wildlife world.
- RSPB Big Wild Sleepout
- Catch up with the badger family
- A week in pictures
- The Big Butterfly Count
- Rescuing a lamb and a day on the river
- Badger weekend
- Hedgehog
- 30 mammals for Day 30 of 30 Days Wild
- Butterflies, Day 28 – 30 days Wild
- National Badger Week, Day 25, 26 and 27 – 30 days Wild
- Orchids, Day 23 – 30 Days Wild
- Early morning on the river, Day 19- 30 Days Wild
- Wild flowers, Day 17 – 30 Days Wild
- Sounds of thunder, Day 16 – 30 Days Wild
- Nose to nose with an animal, Day 14 – 30 Days Wild
- Explore the bug hotel, Day 13
- Early morning walk and science festival
- Wild swimming, Day 10 – 30 Days Wild
- Breakfast in the garden – Day 9
- Look for ladybirds, day 8 – 30 Days Wild
- Walk in the rain, Day 7 – 30 Days Wild
- Fill up the birdbath, Day 6 – 30 Days Wild
- Rabbits, Day 5 – 30 Days Wild
- Oxford Festival of Nature, Day four – 30 Days Wild
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- Very interesting badger behaviour
- Deer behaviour
- My blog is three years old today
- Fallow deer passing through
- Catch up with the badger cubs
- Wildlife around the Badger sett
- Happy update on Cookie’s sett
- Update on Cookie’s sett
- Earth worm survey
- The story of Cookie
- Small mammal surveying
- Bluebells
- Spring evening walk
- Lapwings
- Foggy evening
- End of the holidays
- Water voles
- Roe deers up close
- Spring flowers
- Weekend in Devon
- Badgers at Secret World Wildlife rescue
- Spring is here
- Badger cam
- Spring Hares
- BAWC’s Wildlife Crime conference 2016
- Chance meeting with a Barn Owl
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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Petition against the Badger cull
Wildlife TV presenter and cameraman Simon King set up an online petition to end the Badger cull instead of expanding in to new areas. As I write this the petition stands at 88,712. It needs 100,000 to be considered for … Continue reading
Posted in Badgers, nature, Oxfordshire, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Badger cubs, Badger cull, Badgers, Blogging, images, save our badgers, wildlife
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Big Garden Bird Watch 2017
Setting up my chair in the kitchen with the doors open to the garden, my camera, my notepad and pen and my breakfast on the kitchen table, I was ready to beginning the annual Big Garden Birdwatch. At 8.30am the … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, Citizen science, garden, nature, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, RSPB, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged Big Garden Bird watch, birds, Blackbird, Blogging, Blue tit, Dunnock, Environment, garden, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, images, Jackdaw, Long tailed tit, nature, photography, Pied Wagtail, Robin, RSPB, wood pigeon
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Reconnecting with the Badgers
It has been a while since I have spent time with the Badgers. A mixture of spending a lot of time at school being part of the tech team on the school play and it still getting dark early in … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Badgers, Blogging, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Badger sett, Badgers, Blogging, Environment, mammals, nature, trail camera, wildlife, winter
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Nearby rookery
The trees opposite my house have Rooks in them all year around. They are used as a roost during the winter by a small number of Rooks, who share the copse with the Red Kites and Jackdaws. It is not … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Rural life, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged blog, Blogging, Environment, images, nature, outdoors, photography, rookery, Rooks, Sunset, wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
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Catching up with my garden wildlife
It’s snowing. I’m sat in a classroom watching the falling snow out of the window. I can’t wait to get home. Images pour in to my head. A badger plodding through a blanket of fresh white snow in the wood. … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Blogging, garden, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, trail camera, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged Blogging, collared dove, Crow, Environment, fox, garden, images, Long tailed tit, nature, photography, Pied Wagtail, Rat, winter
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Review of 2016
Happy New Year and a big thank you to everyone who reads and comments on my blog. I really appreciate every follow, like and view. 2016 was quite a manic year with lots of amazing animals and events. January started … Continue reading
Posted in Badgers, Blogging, Citizen science, Happy New Year, mammals, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged Badger, Citizen science, Environment, Festival of nature, Fungi, Hare, images, Ivy, ivy bee, kestrel, mammals, nature, nature photography, Science festival, Secret World, Springwatch Unsprung, Starlings
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