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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: 2010-06-08 09:09:02
- Gullura
Report abuseHiya Foxalas. RSPB Lochwinnoch reserve did that too. I wasn't able to go, but I've been on something like it before. I was so inspired with the bats that I got myself a bat detector! I've never reagreted it! Gullura
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i watched bill odies top ten and loved it! by the way ive got loads of wild life in my garden. a fammily of foxes live right behind our fence! the little ones are so cute. we also have a familly of hedgogs that eat from our catfood bowls! theres also all sorts of birds.
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Hi badger and guys, wouldn't miss springwatch for the world!! Went to a wild day out in Plymouth and it was great!! I have a nest of blue tits in a crack in the wall and a nest of sparrows in next doors drainpipe and I want to see who fledges first. Voleyi =)
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Hi badger and guys, wouldn't miss springwatch for the world!! Went to a wild day out in Plymouth and it was great!! I have a nest of blue tits in a crack in the wall and a nest of sparrows in next doors drainpipe and I want to see who fledges first. Voleyi =)
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Hi again on saturday i went to radipole lake nature reserve at 8:00pm till 11:00pm because the RSPB organised a bat and moth walk it was so cool we saw 4 different species of bat - Serotine Bat - Noctule Bat - Daubenton's Bat - Pipestrelle Bat it was just amazing because we went around the reserve with bat detectors, when you hear their echolocation it sounds like aliens from another planet. When we got to the bridge the Daubenton's Bat went across the water and skimming right over our heads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If its on again I am definately going again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! foxalas x
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hi Badger I went to Family wildlife day with Northumberland wildlife trust with my mum.My favourite bit was ringing and releasing a female chaffinch. I went to a talk with the Arctic Explorer Conrad Dickinson about what it was like and about the animals in the Arctic.He showed us pictures of seals, polarbears, wolves and hares.It was really exciting.Do you think we will ever get wolves in this country again?
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HI BADGER, I HAVE BEEN WATCHING SPRINGWATCH AND I AM HAPPY TO SAY THAT THE AVOCET CHICKS HAVE HATCHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! foxalas x
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Hi badger, we've been to skoma island this half term and we saw loads of puffins, the volunteer told us that the puffins kick the rabbits out of their burrows, but do you ever get puffins wher there arent any rabbits?
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hi Badger and everyone , I `ve just had a great Springwatch Wild Day out at Sandwell Valley near West Bromwich and there was lots to see and do . We saw wood turners at work , bee keeping , competitions , crafts , things to make with a wildlife theme, lots of wildlife stands incliuding the RSPB and Wildlife Trusts ,BBC Breathing PLaces, BBC Midlands Today and more! We came home with a lot of interesting stuff and the rain started just as we were leaving so we did get wet but glad the rain stayed away for most of the day . Springwatch is great and havent missed a programme yet !
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