In a week that has seen Defra criticised on the Badger
cull with no real scientific strategy, and Bovine TB being found in Cumbria
which can be directly linked to cattle movements, I have been really quite
disheartened by the hopelessness of this Badger cull situation. And yet, on the other hand, I have seen
delightful developments up and around my Badger sett, in as much as, the Stag
whose presence has been most welcome around my Badger sett for parts of the day,
a Barn Owl who has had a continual presence over the sett by night have now
been joined by a Sparrow Hawk that is continually in and out of the area and a
couple of Buzzards have set up camp just a few yards down from the Badger sett
and the Little Owl that positively relishes the idea of keeping an eye over his
back and white friends. This could be a
coincidence, although in my experience, any animal in nature that doesn’t take
heed from coincidence, their life span is dramatically reduced. So on that note, I prefer to think it is the
Badgers calling in long past favours from nature’s top guns and it ‘takes my
breath away’.
Watch my short film of a beautiful Badger.
Allan, is it true that owls do their own special war dance? Read about it on the Internet and it always seemed a tad unfeasible to me, but one can never tell with nature. (I occasionally do my own special war dance as well, after I've pulled).
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