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Badger's Blog
27/07/2010
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*SLURP*
Yum! I like this rain we're having at the moment!
*MUNCH MUNCH*
It makes the ground really soft.
*CRUNCH* *SQUELCH*
And do you know what comes out when the soil is lovely and moist?
*CHOMP CHOMP*
Delicious, juicy minibeasts!
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Badger's Blog
19/07/2010
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Hello everyone! Look what I've found...
It's a cinnabar moth. I asked Beebee to identify it for me from a photograph I took the other day. Isn't it pretty? It's funny too - Finchalla told us about seeing a cinnabar caterpillar the other day, and then this turns up!
It got me thinking and I did a bit of research. I looked in some nature books and found out that the reason there are lots of cinnabars about is because their favourite food plant - ragwort - is all over the place at the moment. The moths lay their eggs on it and stripey black and orange caterpillars hatch out to munch the plant. They're easy to spot too - just look for bright yellow flowers on tall plants.
Watch out though, ragwort is poisonous!
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Badger's Blog
09/07/2010
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Look - look! Puffin expert Jen answered my question! This is what I wrote:
Snuffle snuffle Hello Jen! It's Badger here. My friends at The Wildlife Trusts told me all about your amazing Puffin Cam and I've been glued to the screen. I don't get to see puffins very often as my sett is so far away from the coast, but I think they're great little birds. I never knew they were so tiny! I have watched lots of nature programmes and seen puffins bringing fish home for their yongsters. They always seem to have beaks crammed full. What I can't work out is how they manage to catch and carry so many fish without dropping some! How do puffins hold on to their meals if they have to open their beaks to catch more? Snuffle snuffle
And Jen replied:
Hello Badger. Thank you for checking out Puffin Cam, i'm really pleased you like it and have been telling other people to watch.
Puffins can usually collect about 10 fish at a time, although the record stands at 62. They have a special rough tongue which they used to hold the fish they have already caught against spines on the roof of their mouth. This means they can hold onto their meals and still open their beaks to catch more fish. Puffins also have an extra bone in their jaw so they can hold a row of fish in their beak without the ones at the front falling out.
Jen Stockdale (AWT Ecologist)
Isn't that amazing? Puffins are so clever.
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Badger's Blog
07/07/2010
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Remember when I told you about the amazing Puffin Cam that Alderney Wildlife Trust are using to watch puffin nests?
Well, on Thursday 08 July a puffin expert will be live on the site to answer your questions about puffins! You can post a question on the site now and Jen (the expert) will be answering them between 14.00 an 16.00 on Thursday.
I've already asked my question - I hope it gets answered! I've always wanted to know how puffins carry all those fish in their beak without dropping them...
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Badger's Blog
02/07/2010
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What lovely sunny weather. Beebee and I made the most of it the other day and went on a picnic together. We sat in the sunshine and ate some delicious honey Beebee had brought.
We were watching all the amazing insects that were buzzing around and saw lots of different types of butterflies. Beebee's favourite is the peacock because if its beautiful colours. I think my favourite is the speckled wood because there are always lots near my woodland sett!
Which ones are your favourites and why?
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- Date: 2010-06-12 19:53:43
- Kittipe
Report abusei stay up a bit sometimes to watch springwatch i love it sooooooooooooooooooo much the baby chics are super super cute! :)*kittipe*
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aaawww thats sad gullura once i went for a walk in the woods and i some ducks in a little pond it was soooooooooooooo cool id never seen them in the woods before.
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Today at school, we had a eco day. We did the gardens and took all the weeds out and made a scencery garden, fit for birds, plants and humans. We made a water feature, a path and put in lots of plants! My schools very eco, we are going for our fourth green flag! It's just such a shame I'm leaving next year. =( Gullura
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Good on you pigeonwing. I found a big spider at school today and a money spider eating a big thingy. Voleyi.
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i love nature infact i made a little club with me and my freilnd we are both realy seiriose about animals and cruelty against them.
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Hi Badger and all of the others Today at my school i have planted some flowers to make the school pretty and for the competion that will come in september and best of all for the wildlife!! Also we all have a topic about Australia and today i was looking at what type of animals are there,there are platypuses, kangaroos,koalas,a taipan which is the most venomas snake in the world and it lives in Australia! Somtimes I hear a woodpecker when i am coming back to my house.Once i saw a fox crossing the road and some other times i see a deer ,so far i have seen 8 deers crossing the road . Lots of animals live near me and i at least see one each day!! Swanita xxx
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I found loads of cuckoo spit on a lane by us and found a froghopper in one when I went to my allotment. Voleyi.
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hi i was middleton hall last night for sutton coldfield rspb AGM and talks --this is once a year at the hall-a beautiful 16th hall and other super buildings from the 13th century-and is to be an rspb reseve later when all the work is finished . people can visit the hall etc . we got there early and my friend showed me some of the work being done ad has been done . i heard a cuckoo! i was really pleased! other birds we saw were ;woodpigeon,wren, canada geese,mallard,coot, swallow,chaffinch,chiffchaff,heard buzzard,lots of rooks in a rookery, a young heron on the lake ,and lots of wild flowers including stitchwort, red campion, dog rose and ragged robin. we then went back to the hall for the meeting , refreshments and slides. also saw cuckoo spit and i showed my friends the tiny green creature inside the foam . must watch last night`s springwatch before tonight`s !
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Hi Swanita. I've heard that hear in Scotland we are thinking of realising wolves into the wild! I'm sure it's by the same folk who do the beavers (which is only a few minute drive away from me!), but they're not sure if they can do it yet. They're going to have to get agreement and all that. Wouldn't it be so exciting to have wolves in the wild? Gullura
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I havn't been able to watch Springwatch. =( But at least I've got iPlayer! =D Gullura
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