Discover Wildlife

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If you go down to the woods today expect April showers and flowers.

The brown carpet of winter has been completely replaced by vivid green, speckled with primroses and wood anemones.

The first blossom of Spring has arrived quickly followed by the first butterflies and bees, trying their hardest to dodge the raindrops.

https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... day-april/

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Short compilation video on my blog of over 5 hours of trail camera footage, taken using 4 trail cameras over 6 nights, monitoring a number of entrance holes in two locations.
https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... 6-badgers/

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Alex

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A blog and some photos from a walk along the South West Coast path at Kimmeridge Bay

https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... oast-path/

Alex

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‘Cuck-oo – cuck-oo’.

From up in the trees above the badger sett I could hear the first cuckoo of the year calling.

It was difficult to work out whereabouts and in which tree this male cuckoo (only the male makes the ‘cuckoo’) was calling from.

https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... st-cuckoo/

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A short film clip made from 100's of trail camera clips

https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... dger-cubs/

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Alex

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Not the kind of story I'd ever wish to write, but it has a happy ending.

https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... d-badgers/

Alex

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If you go down to the woods today, just one word describes it – Bluebells

The woodland floor is a carpet of blue and after the recent warm weather the air is full with the heavy scent of Bluebells.

https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... -may-2018/

Alex

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Around my local patch I get 4 different types of owls. Barn owl, Tawny owl, Little owl and Short- eared owl.
Over the past couple of weeks both a Barn owl and two Little owls have been very visible.

https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... 5/10/owls/

Alex

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It’s been a couple of weeks since the badger cubs have emerged from the safety of the underground chambers and there have been some up’s and down’s.

You can see the cubs on a short film on my blog.

https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... dger-cubs/

Thanks for looking
Alex

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With all the warm weather over the past couple of weeks the air, the hedgerow and the field margin are now full of insects.
https://appletonwildlifediary.wordpress ... f-insects/

Alex