After my succesful visit to the badger sett I was keen to head back and see if I could get some pictures of the badger cubs. There are three at the sett this year, two are regularly seen on the trail cameras with mum and the other seems to have been adopted by a nanny badger, one of last years cubs, although all three regularly get together for a scrap! The second evening I went back was freezing and after about an hour I headed home shivering. I later checked the camera foot

Little Egrets are a small white heron with attractive white plumes on crest, back and chest. They have black legs and bill and bright yellow feet. They are smaller than the grey heron and about half the size of the great white egret. They first appeared in the UK in significant numbers at the end of the 1980's and were first recorded as a breeding bird in the UK in Dorset in 1996. From being a bird that once would have caused a twitch it's now a fairly common sight after its

Do you remember when the internet was a much safer and more innocent place? When a short animation featuring badgers and snakes was a viral hit. Well last week I had my own badger moment. I monitor a sett which is in some woods at the bottom of a friends garden and I have a number of trail cameras set up to see what's happening down there. I usually check the cameras at the weekend and I'd noticed that not only did the badgers have cubs but they were also coming out a lot ear