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Not many Pheasants in my neck of the woods
What a gorgeous bird the Pheasant is! Pheasant blasting starts on 1 October but I think they’ll be thin on the ground, and in the air, in these parts this year. On my recent journeys around rural Northamptonshire, and raids into Cambridgeshire to carry home loads of blackberries, there seem to be very few Pheasants…
A promise from Boris – piffle-Pfeffel?
When you are told something by a habitual liar then you have to take it with a mountain of salt. About this amount… But don’t worry about this one because it adds up to nothing anyway. Our Prime Minister is promising to increase protected areas for nature from an alleged 26% to a hypothetical 30%…
Badger petition update (2)
We are approaching the end of the fourth full day of this petition and it has already passed 37,000 signatures. I think this demonstrates how very angry many people are about government’s assault on one of our most loved native mammals. Two days ago there were only four constituencies with over 100 signatures and although…
Tim Melling – Badger
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Tim writes: back in May, during lockdown, something had tipped over both of my heavy birdbaths during the night, so I bought a cheap infrared trail camera to see if I could discover the culprit. On the very first night I found I had both Fox and Badger visiting the garden, and they have continued…