Lots of rain has been falling here today, from before I woke up until now at almost seven pm. I don’t mind the rain but it has stayed on the chilly side all the time.
So we haven’t done anything really, napped a short while and watched tv. All of us is a bit bored now because rain makes the dogs stay indoors 🙂 They only run out for a few minutes to do what they must and then indoors again. Yesterday evening, around eight pm it was anything but boring here. I let the dogs outside and then Malkolm came running back to the front door and Alma started to bark.
I walked around the cottage to see if I could find out what it was she barked at. She stared towards a bush and growled so I told her to go back indoors and I pointed my headlight towards the bush and there it was, a rather big badger hiding behind it. Poor thing, it must have been so scared. European badgers has a reputation of being aggressive and dangerous but that’s just nonsense. If they can they rather run away than have to meet dogs and humans. The reason they are believed to be dangerous is because hunters. I think I also would become pretty aggressive if someone tossed down aggressive dogs in to my home and I too would attack the one doing it.
So tonight I’ll take a walk in the garden before I let out the dogs so it can be alone when it visits us. Badgers eat all those snails and slugs we hate plus a lot of other bugs and larvae we don’t want close to us. I think they also might eat apples from the ground and to me that’s positive since I have so many 🙂 It’s time for that last cup of tea and later tonight they show Elsbeth again 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
beautiful photos as always! love the hardy hibiscus. how exciting to have a badger in your garden. we don’t get them here. i do have a mama raccoon and her four(!) kits under my cottage right now. they eat a lot of pests like badgers do. she’ll be moving on soon. raccoons have several den sites in their territories, and they move a lot. my only problem with them is they love to play with and chew on garden hoses. 🦝
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Hi mandolin mama!
It is beautiful and even though it survives outside here treacly doesn’t grow. So I now have it in a pot and will place it in the cool cellar during winter.
Yes I like that all kinds of wildlife visits us, well not so much rats and voles but the rest 🙂 🙂 🙂 One must however keep the eyes open to if the badger starts to dig around the home, they continue to dig it bigger and bigger until the foundation falls in to the hole beneath! Otherwise they are nice animals, they can even share their homes with foxes and other animals that lives around them.
I do think raccoons are cute and fun but also do so many things we don’t like 🙂 🙂 🙂 They have caught some on wildlife cameras here so we now have them as well. So they like garden hoses 🙂 🙂 Good to know if they move here 🙂 🙂
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After many, many weeks of sun with varying humidity, we finally have had some steady rain in Virginia all day yesterday and much of today and temperatures in the 60sF, which feel wonderful after the miserable summer of 100+ most days with humidity. But by Friday it’s supposed to be 89F again, so back to summer heat. I just hope it’s not humid.
Your grass looks as green as Ireland!
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Hi catsworking!
I’m so glad You finally had some rain as well.
No chance of summer heat up here now. It’ll be slightly warmer until Sunday but after that the temperature will drop, we might even have frost nights next week, I’m not looking forward to that. I’ve never been to Ireland so I’ll take Your word for it 🙂 🙂
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