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Much as I enjoy watching badgers from the decking at night I’m not quite so keen on the damage they can do to my decking when they want something that’s on it! I think some recent guests at Kingfisher Lodge must have left some dog food out, or maybe put a rubbish sack by [...] We invested £8.99 in a work light from Homebase last week. We clipped it to the rail on the decking, fired it up and spread out the peanut butter sandwiches. The Badger Light It only took a few minutes before we saw our first badgers and we were able to see them [...] On Wednesday I took some time out from the day job and headed up to Troutbeck to kit out the new lodge that we are bringing on stream in October – Otter Lodge. Having created my own mini-ecological disaster with a heap of totally unnecessary packaging that Tesco should be truly ashamed by, I [...] Last night, inspired by Spring Watch, we decided to set up our own hide with state of the art lighting and video recording equipment. So we opened the bedroom window and stuck our lounge floor lamp by it (no infra red heat seeking gear here I’m afraid), angled the reading light part out of [...] Last night we put some crunch nut shreddies out on the fell side for the badgers and sat down to wait. Sure enough after 10 minutes we were visited by 2 of our nocturnal friends. We were stood by the window and they came to within 2 feet of us, seemingly totally unfazed by [...] It’s now nearly 15 years since Linda & I were married. We had a particularly lovely wedding cake. A rich fruit number with fantastical icing. Since that was before the days of digital photography I don’t have a picture here for you I’m afraid. Anyway, the cake was so lovely that we couldn’t bear [...] Taking the dog for a late night walk at the weekend I heard some noise by one of the lodges. I looked up and saw 4 young badgers trying to get the nuts out of a low feeder. I have always known that there are badgers on the site. The campers often make the [...] |
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