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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: 2010-06-05 17:53:58
- Ottero
Report abuseHi, I just came back from a camping trip in Yorkshire and it was really cool!! There was loads of wildlife including greater spotted woodpecker and lesser spotted woodpeckers in the woods, jays on the campsite in the trees, nuthatches in the trees above our tent and even a dipper on the river running behind the campsite. Theres a pond on the campsite with lots of mallard ducks so there were loads of ducklings!! The ducklings fed out of my hands and came really close for food!! There were some that were a few weeks old and some that were a few days old. There were also a lot of fish in the pond like carp and perch, I saw loads of butterflies in the meadow like peacock butterflies and orange tip butterflies. I did a nature trail through the woods with my dad where we had to find lots of trees the boards said how old and all about the trees.
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Very good i like it Badger
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Hi guys, I just came back from my year six residential. There was loads of wild garlic, bluebells and ivy in the grounds and there was a seal by a rock we were coasteering off. I found loads of crabs (velvet, edible and common shore) as well as isopods, the jumping thingys that look like woodlice with really cute eyes. Voleyi.
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hi , Badger and everyone! yesterday 2 friends and webnt to shrewsbury and we had a great day exploring the history , going in charity shops etc! we went into quarry gardens for our lunch and as we ate our sarnies i noticed something moving on top of the earth where the gardeners had removed some old plants . i went to see what it was and found the biggest beetle i`d ever seen! i picked it up and saw it was brown , had prickly legs and its antennae was feathered at the tips --it was a real beauty .my friends had a look and then i took it to ask a gardener if he knew what it was but he had no idea. i then put the beetle safely in the bushes behind the seat we sat on and decided to see if it was in one of my I-SPY books when i got home . today i looked through my I-SPY Insects book and there was my beetle! it was a cockchafer beetle! i`d never seen one before so was pleased to discover what it was ! we had a great day with the interesting and exciting history and seeing that lovely beetle . also saw my first house martin too!
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Hi, I saw Gordon Buchanan's high seas programme on thursday and the orcas were really cool and the basking sharks were cool too!! Today I was feeding the birds and found that theres a nest of great tits in the hawthorn.
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Hey Badger! Of course I watched Bill Oddies top ten aliens!!! Wouldn't miss it for the world
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Hey Badger! Of course I watched Bill Oddies top ten aliens!!! Wouldn't miss it for the world
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Hi guys, anyone see Gordan Buchanan high seas on Thursday? I caught the end when they captured the footage of the Orcas on the pole. On Monday I found a dead sparrow with a broken neck. On Friday there were some captive birds of prey (hawks I think) in the garden by the gate I found the sparrow and a road. The birds weren't there.
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Hello there! I'm seeing lots of baby things now! Yesterday, I saw a baby siskin flapping his wings at the speed of a bee! There was a male siskin and the baby on our platform bit, and the baby held out his mouth flapping his wings at the rate of a bee! Talking about baby birds, my nest box beside the house is full of baby Great Tits! If you stamp your feet, all you hear is random CHEEP-CHEEP-CHEEPs! But yesterday, I was in luck, right when I was there, a Great Tit flew in! What a treat! See you soon! Gullura
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Hi, today I've seen lots of swifts and swallows flying over my house and a great tit came to feed. I also saw a garden spider and some snails. There was a chaffinch singing loudly and tunefully on my chimney too!! The sparrowhawk was flying over too yesterday.
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