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Jan 6 2010, 09:00 PM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Jan 6 2010, 08:44 PM) /quote]
Good for you - suggest you contact NWN and ask to be put in touch with their nature reporter whose name, sadly, escapes me for the mo. She's lovely and I'm sure will be very interested
PS I've never seen a live badger - you are a lucky chap!
Thanks for that, we felt the same initially. It's a mixed emotion because we are very keen gardeners and wildlife lovers too. We have a plot at the end of the garden that we were hoping to convert to a small nature reserve. problem we have is that they are destroying any effort we make. We've considered electric fences, mesh in the ground, but all very expensive. The grey matter has finally kicked in, her name is Nicola Chester - please let us know how you get on
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Jan 7 2010, 04:54 PM
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Look out X2lls I see an angry farmer with a shotgun heading your way. And he has his lawyer with him who wants you to pay damages because his cows all have TB that they must have caught from your badgers. In fact that looks like the anti-terrorist police following him because you may have committed economic sabotage with your disease ridden badgers. Run for the hills!
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Jan 7 2010, 07:23 PM
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QUOTE (Jayjay @ Jan 7 2010, 06:45 PM) How lovely - any pics? I was surprised the other morning by a grouse and a moorhen in the garden (Shaw area). I have one short video, but it is 10mb in size so cannot be uploaded here. If your mail client will allow files that size I will gladly mail it. Just message me your addy and I'll try to send it. That applies to anyone else too if interested. I am planning to set up a camera on the sett entrance and hopefully set it up to enable viewing across the net.
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Jan 7 2010, 07:33 PM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Jan 7 2010, 07:23 PM) I have one short video, but it is 10mb in size so cannot be uploaded here. If your mail client will allow files that size I will gladly mail it. Just message me your addy and I'll try to send it. That applies to anyone else too if interested. I am planning to set up a camera on the sett entrance and hopefully set it up to enable viewing across the net. Youtube?
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Jan 7 2010, 09:52 PM
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Badgers.... I'd prefer to see one put to good use in a shaving brush..... And as if the rural 'myth' (?) that they spread TB wasn't bad enough, there was that annoying brummie in The Apprentice who gave them a REALLY bad name.... Seriously though, a badger sett very close to your house could be bad news. They'll be causing havoc with your dustbins searching for food, destroying the compost heap if that's where you chuck 'green' food scraps, will make a real mess of any garden you hope to have, and if ickle baby badgers appear they can become very aggressive. (Watch out if you have cats, dogs or small children) Occasionally (if very close to a house) the burrowing can cause problems with the structure of a building (more likely no more than putting a few dips in your patio maybe....) This site will give you some ideas if you want them moved on humanely or want to know how to coexist... http://www.badgers.org.uk/badgerpages/eura...-badger-57.htmlThis site may help if you're not bovvered.... http://www.badger-baiting-for-kicks.co.ukWhile we're talking about wildlife though, have you seen the black swan on the canal in town. Native of Australia normally, the poor fella looks a bit lost.
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Jan 8 2010, 11:08 AM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Jan 7 2010, 07:33 PM) Youtube? Not the best quality, but as suggested.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZSyH8JRaNk
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Jan 8 2010, 02:16 PM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Jan 8 2010, 11:08 AM) Not the best quality, but as suggested.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZSyH8JRaNkGood work. Try to keep your hand steady by using a broom handle to rest on, or something like that. Cheers. A nice break from snow, gritting, bollards, WBC, etc...
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Jan 8 2010, 09:46 PM
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QUOTE (lordtup @ Jan 8 2010, 04:36 PM) (snip) ...but the sight of them frolicking about on a late spring evening is worth 100 lawns. As long as they're other people's lawns though, eh Lordtup? Mr Brock is also a creature of habit. Allow him to take a foothold in your garden and you'll have a lot of trouble shifting him on of his own accord. Sect 3 of The Protection of Badgers Act 1992 details the prosecutable offences for interfering with setts. Article 7 gives the exemptions allowing you to interfere. legal badger nonsenseOddly, you're allowed to place "a bundle of sticks or faggots " at the entrance provided you don't pack them in there hard. Faggots??! Is that with or without gravy? Anyway, I withdraw some of my earlier comments.... they are after all such cuddly little creatures...... EDIT: Expanding on your knowledge of 'Units of Measurement', a 'Faggot' is a traditional (archaic) unit of volume for firewood. A faggot was 3 feet in length and 2 feet in circumference; this is a volume of about 0.955 cubic feet or 27 liters. There are about 134 faggots in a cord.What's a 'cord'?
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Jan 8 2010, 10:06 PM
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QUOTE (spartacus @ Jan 8 2010, 09:46 PM) What's a 'cord'? 134 faggots, obviously. Actually 128 cu ft of wood cut for burning
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