The Independent Expert Panel has confirmed what we all expected: that free-shooting of badgers doesn’t work, causes suffering, is ineffective and costly. It’s now official: the badger cull failed.
Technically the report is still to be published, but it’s leaked and is damning in its appraisal. Whether or not the government listens is another matter, so the campaign goes on.
Just one picture from today… also available at my Fox of the Day page.
And I might as well re-post yesterday’s ‘fox of the day’ since it contains a glimpse (the eye-shine) of a second fox lurking at the back of the garden.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens.
More sunshine, and signs that spring might be upon us. Likely it’s a false dawn, but we can but hope. These greylags were certainly in tune with the change of season, happily mating in the cool, early morning sunshine.
Lunchtime brought more signs of spring. I was taking a walk along one of the country lanes just outside Falmer. The trees are already in leaf, and the birds were singing.
Just off the path I spotted my second butterfly of the year (and managed my first photo). It’s a small tortoiseshell, and it seems an early showing.
As for the foxes (and badgers), they are still enjoying the garden at night, especially now the rains have more or less stopped (cue downpour in the next 24 hours). Here are the three foxes again, plus a couple of badger encounters.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
