Country File

[Techno 3]

Not seen it...but there's almost certainly a badger (or more) wandering around the fields at night.
Quite a few 'scrapes' in one field.Just like badgers mkae.

Be nice to see it/them...and it'd be nice if they didn't poop so much, 'cos the dogs like rolling in it.
Kitchen towels on standby.    

(I suppose it could be aliens that weren't very good at crop circles.)

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

My dawg is just the same! Dive and roll

[steve_holmes_11]

Up here in Glasgow we have one last dry week before summer ends.

The mass of sunflowers I planted form March are nearing their end.
They attracted bees and butterflies during their flowering.
For the last two weeks, a band of great-tits have been stripping the seeds form the drying and dying flower heads.

I can stand close to the sunflowers and watch the birds at work, undeterred by my presence.

I've cut sufficient for next year's crop.
The birds are welcome to the rest.

[Last Hussar]

I've cut sufficient for next year's crop.
The birds are welcome to the rest.

Well done that man.   

[kustenjaeger]

Our front lawn is testament to a local badger - the lawn has got scrapes all over it now 🙂. It's possible it's a fox (of which we always have one or more wandering around mainly at night) but I doubt it. 

Edward

[steve_holmes_11]

Our front lawn is testament to a local badger - the lawn has got scrapes all over it now 🙂. It's possible it's a fox (of which we always have one or more wandering around mainly at night) but I doubt it. 

Edward

A fox will usually make a scrape in a sheltered corner or under a hedge.

They do most of their scraping in Spring when cubs are due.

A vixen will establish three sites, and pick a primary.
The reserves are get-out options if the initial one is disturbed.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Loving the sunflower news

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

A vixen will establish three sites, and pick a primary.
The reserves are get-out options if the initial one is disturbed.

One for the machine gun, one for the observer, one to fall back to?

[Gwydion]

Nearly stood on a badger once.
Literally my next step would have been on its head. We both froze eyes locked for what felt like eternity but I guess was just over a second. Long enough to work out any move would be a bad idea. So I looked away and looked back down - gone, grey backside bounding along through the half grown wheat heading for the hedge line. I put my foot down. I have never felt so relieved in all my life. On reflection a lovely moment but I could have probably lived without it.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Badgers - story from Bruche long time ago. A GMP officer driving down Piccadilly Manchester hitting a badger, Put Badger in back of car. Corse it was only stunned and came round before they got back to station. Result - one wrecked car interior

[Last Hussar]

One for the machine gun, one for the observer, one to fall back to?

Plus pre-plotted beaten zones...

[Ithoriel]

The local cats and foxes seem to have established a modus vivendi and the regular hissing and spitting matches seem to have subsided to the level of occasional brief spats. They'll be singing Lili Marlene and playing football together come Christmas at this rate!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Leon, can we have three foxes in a trench?

[Ithoriel]

Leon, can we have three foxes in a trench?

Three RUSSIAN foxes please 

[DecemDave]

The local cats and foxes seem to have established a modus vivendi and the regular hissing and spitting matches seem to have subsided to the level of occasional brief spats. They'll be singing Lili Marlene and playing football together come Christmas at this rate!

According to Fox news, Donald Trump intervened to stop the conflict.   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

According to Fox news, Donald Trump intervened to stop the conflict.   

And failed.....

[Orcs]

And failed.....

But he is now supplying 2000kg bombs and 155mm shells to the foxes, in aid of his nomination for the Nobel peace prize

[steve_holmes_11]

And failed.....

But his hair is now firmly aligned with team fox.

[Ithoriel]

Fake News or Fox News? 

[Techno 3]

Gentlemen.
Please try and keep politics away from the forum.