[Brock the Badger]

Evening, I joined the site on 8 Jan 12 although have been reading the BBC Wildlife magazine for around 3 years now. When I log on to the site a screen comes up saying 'access denied' but I am logged on the site and can navigate around - anyone know the reason for that.

My interests are in wildlife watching and also photography so hope to pick up some tips and interesting places to visit from the forum.

[Hawk_Eye]

Welcome to forum Brock. Hope you've got plenty of badger tales to tell given the screen name

[Brock the Badger]

Unfortunately not except for one ironic tale. Travelling back from a funeral in Blackburn on the Southbound carriageway of the M6 we were talking about various animals and I mentioned that I had never seen a badger. Anyway moving into the centre lane the traffic did its usual with brake lights coming on and eventually we all came to a stop. There were only two cars in front of me with a clear road ahead and I was confused as to why we had stopped as there was no accident. The others in the car asked what the hold up was and as I looked ahead replied it is only a badger limping across the carriageway. I just could n't believe it as only a 15 minutes early I had said I had never even seen a badger and here was one limping across the M6! It was brilliant to see everyone stopping but I did not think much of its chances of getting across the N orth bound carriageway - I just hoped it made it.

[Mark Pickering]

That's pretty bizarre! Near enough the exact same thing happened to me. Literally minutes after discussing I'n never seen a badger on appeared in my car headlights down the dark country road we were on. Thankfully I didn't hit it and he/she disappeared safely into a hedge. My main memory from that night was the shock at how big the badger was - I think my mind had them as cute cuddly little things - but this fella was huge!

[wildlifeisfun]

Hello all my name is Doris , i have just joined this last few minutes, this magazine is so interested and learning curve the photos are brilliant and clear also i love wildlife from all over the world but mostly South Africa, i am on a few websites there Djuma and Africam at Sabi Sand private reserves,
Also i am very interesting in Bird life and plants shrubs and flowers i have quite a selection of books on wildlife Mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and also tracks and tracking.
Regards Doris