You’ve been waiting at the badgers sett sitting quite comfortably, then when it comes time for them to emerge you know you have to pee and thats not going to go away anytime soon no matter how much you squeeze your knees together and jiggle 
You know you’re getting old when……
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I've found the best thing whilst waiting is to throw some Monkey nuts in their shells down the Sett hole - You'll hear the crunch!-crunch! in enough time to be still.
Old?
When you argue with family about who can see the best to dig a wood sliver out of my hand! My glasses have a newer prescription than yours.
When you argue with a hunting partner about who has the best balance to bend over and field dress a grouse without falling on your face!
When you argue with family about who can see the best to dig a wood sliver out of my hand! My glasses have a newer prescription than yours.
When you argue with a hunting partner about who has the best balance to bend over and field dress a grouse without falling on your face!
Same with getting into a sleeping bag, in a hammock, zipping the bug net, thrashing about a bit to get in the comfy zone, have a listen to the night noises, adjust pillow, close eyes. Cue the swearing.
Well at the moment a badger or badgers come into my garden at night looking for water. They did the same last year during dry weather, digging up soaker hose and digging a hole where my water butt tap drips (another sign of old age!) So now I leave a bucket of water out for them.
could someone please enlighten me what monkey nuts are?! (at least the local primates would object of i remove parts of their anatomy and chuck them down a badger's hole
)throwing a handful of dog hair down the entrance hole of a badger family's home in Japan convinced them to move on (they decided to move under a shed 10 meters from my room and raided the camping ground garbage bin every night ) -- which seemed a better solution to me than the local hunter dispatching them..
could someone please enlighten me what monkey nuts are?! (at least the local primates would object of i remove parts of their anatomy and chuck them down a badger's hole
throwing a handful of dog hair down the entrance hole of a badger family's home in Japan convinced them to move on (they decided to move under a shed 10 meters from my room and raided the camping ground garbage bin every night ) -- which seemed a better solution to me than the local hunter dispatching them..
Peanuts in their shells.
My badgers makes so much noise you don’t need too. Literally three minutes after stashing my iPad I could hear the first one crashing around
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Right after I left here to enjoy the night time shnufflings, I legged it out of the area to release. Got back, and 20 minutes into watching the big badger boar do his noisy things. I had to go again. Held off to get some good pictures. Didn’t work. He is there somewhere if…there wasn’t so much flashback.
So moved off to watch the bats and foxes on the woodland edge across the fields. Wonderful place. You can fall asleep there, but I chose the one night when the rugby club is practicing late.
They don’t stop open too long usually. But it’s sad when you can hear Robin and Blackbird singing at least an hour and a half after they should have roosted and nodded off. The moths around the lights are like a massive cloud. The spots against the sky in the picture aren’t stars. They’re bats.
So I laid back and chilled watching the stars and the leaves as the rain started falling.
Then headed back through the woods home. Rain falling and peace all around me. You can’t pay for this. The smells, the sounds… etc.
So moved off to watch the bats and foxes on the woodland edge across the fields. Wonderful place. You can fall asleep there, but I chose the one night when the rugby club is practicing late.
They don’t stop open too long usually. But it’s sad when you can hear Robin and Blackbird singing at least an hour and a half after they should have roosted and nodded off. The moths around the lights are like a massive cloud. The spots against the sky in the picture aren’t stars. They’re bats.
So I laid back and chilled watching the stars and the leaves as the rain started falling.
Then headed back through the woods home. Rain falling and peace all around me. You can’t pay for this. The smells, the sounds… etc.
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aahh... never heard that phrase before
somehow i couldn't imagine our local troop of howling monkeys singing soprano to attract badgers
(don't think there are any badgers around here -- only raccoons and coatis which can be ferocious, too (when attacked))
Here, we have "barking spiders."
Shame you all could not have listened to us argue about best eyesight.
Talk about age-related!
Shame you all could not have listened to us argue about best eyesight.
Talk about age-related!
