Over the past two weeks I’ve been setting my trail camera up almost every night and at lots of different locations as I’ve been off school. Last night, for the second time since I’ve been off school, I set my trail camera up at a local badgers sett. Last week when I recorded there I managed to record two different badgers at the most and there wasn’t that much activity except for a bit of tree climbing. However when I collected my camera this morning and looked at the footage I was delighted to see that I had recorded two different adult badgers and three different cubs! By the looks of it this was one of the first times that the cubs had left the sett as they were very wary and so were their parents. On the videos, I managed to record eating, exploring, some play fighting and much more. Here’s some of the footage that I got.
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New locals.
Last Thursday I ventured out into Lichfield town centre. In the city centre, close to the Cathedral, there is a pool known as Minster pool. After looking around for a few minutes I noticed a group of ten ducklings swimming around. Here’s some photographs and a video that I took of them. Unfortunately the quality isn’t the best as the weather was a bit dull but I’ll be back in the near future to record them again and hopefully record the family growing bigger and bigger as every few days go by.
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Fungi quiz answers.
Following Thursdays wildlife quiz here’s a post with the answers on and some information about each of the three fungus’ I quizzed about.
This fungi is called witches’ butter (Tremella mesenterica). This photo of mine featured on BBC Autumnwatch Extra last year and BBC Winterwatch Unsprung. It is normally found on a tree however this had fallen off onto the floor.
This one is called Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria), it is a very iconic toadstool and is commonly depicted in children’s books. The fungus is dangerously poisonous and the name fly agaric derives from the fact that since medieval times it was commonly used as a fly killer.
This one is known as a shaggy ink cap (phylum Baasidomycota) and can be spotted in meadows, woods and roadsides verges. They are common and widespread in Britain and Ireland and it is also found throughout mainland Europe, from Scandinavia down to the southern edge of the Iberian Peninsula and the shores of the Mediterranean. It also occurs in Northern America.
Next weeks quiz is all about British butterflies!
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Thursday quiz: Identify the fungi!
This weeks quiz is all about fungi, to answer you have to name the fungi (Latin or English) which is displayed in the photo. To answer the question you can comment below or tweet me @GeorgiaLocock
Tomorrow I will do a blog post about the different fungi species that I have quizzed about, give the correct answer and some information about them all.
Good luck and next weeks quiz is about butterflies!
All photos are taken by myself.
Georgia Locock 