Enter the badger cub.

It is a quiet midsummer evening in the garden. It is cool now after the prolonged heat earlier in the week. 

A few badgers have gathered for the snacks offered (mainly hidden under the plastic lids to stop the local cats eating them). 

Then a cub enters the garden through the gap in the fence with an adult which may well be his (or her) mother. The cub is the first one seen this year and full of nervous energy, but he too is soon munching on the snacks. He will have been born back in the winter, blind and helpless and deep underground, and only now is independent enough to venture far from the den with the other badgers. Here are some little bits of film of him. 

Badger mid-summer Party

In this short piece of film Lardyarse shows how her superior weight and deployment of her famous asset makes sure she gets the bet tid-bit.

Wildlife on a Sunday afternoon in Bath

Prior Park - a view towards town on a warm day in mid-June.

What can be found on a such a sunny day in and around the city?

First there are wonderful insects: damselflies and butterflies. 

And then there are some extraordinary birds.

The large red damselfly by the pond.

A small heath butterfly.

Prior Park meadow.

Ladybirds mating

Grey heron at Prior Park Lake.

Common blue damselfly.

mating damselflies on the pond

Something very new has emerged from an eddy of the River Avon. It has climbed
up high and is drying its wings. I am not sure what it will become.

And finally, high above the city on the spire of St John's church a peregrine falcon is taking a late lunch, scattering feathers into the wind. 

More about the peregrines HERE.