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Sometimes things dont quite go as planned . Tonight was one of those nights . The weather had been changeable throughout the day , but it was a fair & moonlit sunset . An ideal night forwatching badgers . As we ascended the steep B road towards the fields & heather , a stern breeze & drizzle was no indication for what was to come .
Nearing the top of the hill the wind really picked up . At the crest of the last field the wind was strong enough to really take your breath away . I followed buzzbeeman along a very precarious high path with a very severe steep 100ft drop to the side of one exceptionally narrow path . The wind by now was violent perhaps gale force (we were 1000 ft above sea level) I was unable to hear anything but the screaming of the wind as a bitter-ice hailstorm
hit us head on . I stumbled against the barbed wire that was the only thing to grab as an angry gust threatened to blow me down that terrifying ledge . We really didnt think watching badgers was the first thing in mind anymore . Inadvertently we were in a survival situation ,
isolated in a very exposed spot at the top of a crag . We fortunately found some dense heather & were able to wriggle out of the onslought of the weather .Buzz took the opportunity & cracked open a can of cider chuckling . Hard to say how long we were 'trapped' up there but maybe only half an hour & the wind dropped enough to risk a steep descent . This particular hillside was just a dark steep thing , with cloud completely covering the almost full badgers moon that had influenced the journey to begin with .
Tom had disappeared as I cautiously crouched clinging to heather so as not to make so rapid a descent as to risk life & limb . It was DARK suddenly I howled as I grabbed a gorse bush as if it were to save my life . I fell through two clumps of gorse & came to rest with my ankle caught in barbed wire . OUCH !
After my little drama the rest of the descent was patient - I could feel stinging all over , soaking wet hands with a hundred perforations , & I left a chunk of my shin on some rusting barbed wire . What a relief to get onto the road , I took quite a beating & could feel bruising throughout my back & legs . Thats badger watching (or not) .
We present the reality of human & badger interaction - Honestly , while we have tried wherever possible to make a family friendly place some images may require parental guidance but are necessary Being posotive is an essential component of all we do . In failing daylight , soaking wet we were able to fully catalogue the Colne Valley S6 Sett . This large complex sett covers extra-ordinarily diverse habitat - NOT HUMAN FRIENDLY ! steep waterlogged cliffs & a challenging headwind . Theres evidence to establish the borders between the adjacent S5 & S7 sett which intimitely overlap along a fast stretch of the River .
we wish to accurately inform the public of certain things...
Holme-Valley Badger Baitors have brutally tortured & killed a young badger .
meet Mr & Mrs badger - photo by Tom Price
Every day in Britain more people see dead badgers than live ones !
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