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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: 2010-05-18 21:41:31
- Ottero
Report abuseHi, I was just sitting by the window watching the birds in my garden then suddenly I noticed a sparrowhawk sat on a post in my garden feeding on it's prey!! There are quite a lot of them in the spring and summer.
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hi , , i missed the special springwatch programme last night--well most of it but saw the last 15 minutes of it .. i wont miss the next one but will record it as i`m at our rspb meeting . i have seen bill oddie`s programmes and its good to see him back on telly again . i`ve just heard that a hedgehog comes into the garden of our flats at about 9.30pm so will be on the lookout tonight !
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hi , had a great weekend away and saw 13 red kites on the M40 .! I was at loddon hall twyford at the enid blyton day which was great! saw 7 redkites over loddon hall ! my friend and i also saw a buzzard sitting on the lampost on the motorway and saw several other birds . sunday was at pulborough brooks nature reserve and saw jackdaw,starling,blackbird,collared dove,pheasant ,swallow,greenfinch,heard green woodpecker,chiffchaff,great t,willow warbler,crow,robin,blackcap,chaffinch,heron,buzzard, woodpigeon,lapwing mobbing a crow, 2 little egrets,song thrush,swift,mallard,. also saw fallow deer, rabbit, and saw lots of flowers including stitchwort and herb robert . we also heard nightingale! .
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hi , had a great weekend away and saw 13 red kites on the M40 .! I was at loddon hall twyford at the enid blyton day which was great! saw 7 redkites over loddon hall ! my friend and i also saw a buzzard sitting on the lampost on the motorway and saw several other birds . sunday was at pulborough brooks nature reserve and saw jackdaw,starling,blackbird,collared dove,pheasant ,swallow,greenfinch,heard green woodpecker,chiffchaff,great t,willow warbler,crow,robin,blackcap,chaffinch,heron,buzzard, woodpigeon,lapwing mobbing a crow, 2 little egrets,song thrush,swift,mallard,. also saw fallow deer, rabbit, and saw lots of flowers including stitchwort and herb robert . we also heard nightingale! .
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Hey Badger! I saw Springwatch as well. It really enjoyable and I hope it will teach people to take care of the Earth. By the way, when I watched your last video I couldn't help thinking how chicks hatch. If you you do know how chicks hatch please tell me. Thank you!!!
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Hi, springwatch was really good last night and it was really interesting to hear about the hares that change colour in the winter won't blend in with there surroundings if we don't get much snow. Hopefully climate change won't harm to much of britain's wildlife!! I saw two blue tits today at school going into a hole near the roof, they were nesting there and they kept flying in and out with food.
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Hi, I saw Bill Oddie's top 10 aliens last night and the scorpions and the terrapin turtles were really interesting. On Friday I saw some pipistrelle bat flying in and out of and old buildling and today when I was on the motorway I saw a buzzard over the trees.
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I saw 6 deer in hereford yesterdy it was absolutley breathtaking, They were all female which means there has to be a stag somewhere right? Let me know if you see any other deer related activity, i am mad about them!
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There's a new springwatch?!? Has it started yet? Oh I need to see it!!!
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Hi Badger, Gullara & fellow watchers. Didn't see bill oddies top 10 but 8:00 - 9:00 on BBC 2 (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) there is a vast amount of springwatch programs with Chris Packham, Simon King and mr Buchanan.
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