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13-02-2006, 08:09 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Staffordshire
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| | | Hello from Staffordshire Just joined a couple of days ago so I thought I'd say hello. I'm based in Staffordshire and have always loved and been interested in nature and wildlife but am a very long way from being knowledgeable about it. I've recently got into nature photography, which I find is a lot of fun.My main ambition for this year is to see a live Badger in the wild.
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13-02-2006, 08:11 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NW England
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| | | Re: Hello from Staffordshire Hi Paul and welcome to WAB
Looking forward to those Badger pix! 
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13-02-2006, 08:59 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Crawley,Sussex
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| | | Re: Hello from Staffordshire Hi Paul.
Can i be there when you see one as i am in the same boat as you at the moment. | 
13-02-2006, 10:55 PM
|  | Administrator and Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: On the Malvern Hills
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| | | Re: Hello from Staffordshire Hi Paul,
A lady a few miles away recently told me that peanut butter sandwiches will have the Badgers flocking to your doorstep from miles around. Almost every evening during the summer 2 or 3 visit her back garden near Macclesfield forest, and they trek about half a mile just to feed on butties.
Stuart | 
14-02-2006, 05:49 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Coventry
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| | | Re: Hello from Staffordshire Hi Paul
A warm welcome to WAB from another midlander.
Up until less than a year ago I had never seen a Badger at all (and I am 61 next week). Then one day I was getting ready to sleep in my car, in a field by Flamborough Head) when a movement caught my eye. It was a Badger and it came right up to my car before disappearing again in the longish grass. Magic moment and one I will never forget.
I hope your magic moment comes soon. They are well worth the wait.
John | 
14-02-2006, 10:03 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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| | | Re: Hello from Staffordshire hi paul, I have not seen a Badger for a while except from the car or on the edge of the road
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14-02-2006, 11:21 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Banbury, Oxfordshire
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| | | Re: Hello from Staffordshire i would say your best chance of seeing one is between april and august as activity outside the set before dark is high - either young exploring the world or foraging before dark. i saw one late last year at about six in the evening plain a day just wondering around some field margins, so that was very lucky.
but if your going to watch a set follow some basic stalking rules dull plain clothing, quiet as a mouse, very still, down wind of the animals, etc.
someone also told sit above the set, even with a torch it dosnt spook then as much as they expect light form above.
good luck anyway 
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14-02-2006, 07:46 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Staffordshire
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| | | Re: Hello from Staffordshire Thanks everybody for the warm welcome and for the Badger watching tips 
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