The Father Christmas Webcams are now working.
I have put a new photograph on the Photo page. As you can see by the date, the photograph was taken over three years ago. The URL www.watchingwildlife.co.uk is another you can access Denbury Farm from. The Badger is coming out of one of the Sett entrances, very close to the lower feeding site. I may leave the camera on the Sett entrance every now and then.
This was the first part of the Badger Sett that I found when I was looking for a place to set the webcams up. It was the closest to the Farm House, about twenty yards away. There were only three Badgers in the Sett when I first found it. We rarely saw any Badger on the webcam, as the entrance was only used occasionally. Unbeknown to us at the time, the main entrance to the sett was the one that the Badgers still now use the most. It was very well hidden, and over twenty five metres from the lower sett entrance. I found the entrance by putting feed down in the field, that the entrance of the Sett leads onto. At the time before Safeway’s Supermarket was taken over, they use to let me have all of their bakery waste for our Wildboar. How they ever called it waste I will never know. Some nights when we collected the waste, there were as many as thirty black bin liners, full of cream cakes, sticky cakes, bread and other special breads and fancy bakery items, all in date by one or two days. We had the best fed Wildboar ever, we didn’t do bad either. It didn’t take the Badgers long to find the cakes, that led me to the main Sett entrance.
When Morrison’s took Safeway’s over they stopped letting us have the waste and skipped it all, to be put into landfill. Just as well as the Wildboar were obese and I was getting stung many times a day, by Wasps. Within a couple of weeks we managed to find a fruit and veg wholesalers who let us have their waste. Again how they called it waste I will never know. A lot of it was thrown away because of items being over ordered or not sold. One day I picked up hundreds of punnets of perfectly good English Strawberries. This was also a regular occurrence with both the fruit ans veg. The Wildboar diet was a lot healthier, as was ours.
They are not flowers Elsie, they are rain drops, and we are getting plenty of them since I wrote on the Diary how dry it has been. I must have put a jinx on myself. With the amount of rain we are getting, the Horses are coming in every night. It makes for more work having to muck their stables out every day.