Way out West (incorporating Way up North)

badgers

While I've been off playing with kites* in rural Bucks, I have gradually become aware that behind the barn in which my technical ministrations were taking place was a small building site. As the barn is very new(although the average age of the rest of the buildings are 400 years+), I wasn't very surprised, or even very interested, and dismissed it from my thoughts.

It was only when someone made a reference to 'the badgers set' that the penny finally dropped; the area occupied is huge, about 75' by 20' and there are great hummocks of earth thrown up, tree roots exposed and so on. It really looks like Darren the builder has left the job, and will be back next week, honest, just to tidy up, like. Apparently there are between 12 and 18 badgers in there, curious to think that they are living within 20' of my workbench, I have half a mind to set up a camera (we have the technology), there is a security light on all through the night, so they must have got used to it by now.

I'm back there next week, so maybe I'll suggest it.

Next thrilling episode will contain stuff about Bouncers at Wakefield (Rhubarb capital of the UK), but for now, horrid snot ridden cold is sending me to my cot.

*That's Red Kites, apparently there are more than 1000 breeding pairs in the Chilterns now, a massively successful re-introduction. I can reliably see 10-20 individuals as I drive up the M40 to work of a morning.

posted by Lampy @ 3/08/2006 10:17:00 pm