Woodlife

Last night I followed up my tracking (see “There be Badgers” post) by trying to watch the sett. I went out about an hour before dusk and waited until about an hour after dark fell. The result…as the picture shows, absolutely nothing! To be fair, I was probably too far away initially. The wind was in my face, so that seemed okay. I couldn’t see any of the sett when darkness fell though. This prompted me to move location nearer the sett and that might have been my undoing. I did see a white nose come out of the sett, but by then I was probably too close and the badger might well have smelt or even seen me. It quickly disappeared again under ground. I was disappointed that they didn’t come out at dusk so that I could get at least a decent sighting.

At least the excursion gave me the chance to test out my goretex bivvi bag. It’s an ex-brit army one and good quality. It certainly kept me dry both from the damp ground and the fine drizzle. On this occasion, this is the only thing I carried with me apart from my small shoulder bag containing water, nuts, hat and gloves.

Tactics change next time? I’ll have to think about that one.