Saturday, 28 May 2011

New Badger Cub


Another busy week at the Centre saw Andy Rouse here for a couple of days photographing fox cubs, and planning a possible new workshop. Heather Angel running one of her popular photographic workshops, and the usual array of school trips and private tours.

In amongst all this though, we found time to welcome a new member to our badger family. Pictured above is "Honey". She is a rescue cub that had been reared for a little while before being passed onto us for a new safe home. She is already quite a character, and can be seen at certain times of the day in our photographic pen, when we are open to the public.



Our own resident badger fanatic, Laura, has taken on the task of bonding with Honey and introducing her to our cub from last year, Titch. Given time we hope to then introduce both of these to Toby to form a nice clan in our observation sett. Our remaining badgers will then be placed into our "semi-wild" sett on the nature reserve. In the future this will allow us to offer badger watching evenings... something I know many of you have requested in the past.



In other baby news. Tutoke is growing fast, and you can see how proud doting mother Richard is! I am sure he will be up and flying for the Summer (Tutoke, not Richard), and will add to our already popular owl display. Twilight and Eclipse are still sat on 4 other chicks in the barn, all that can be seen on the screen in the reception area.

Saturday, 21 May 2011

More of Flo's cubs


It's been a busy week for us all here at the Centre, and this evening I had a spare few minutes so I decided to sit in with Flo. We now believe that she has had 5 cubs, but tonight I just saw the four. The cubs have been great recently, coming out after the keeper talks and playing around nearer the end of the day just before 5pm.



Monday, 16 May 2011

Flo's cubs out and about


Flo's fox cubs are now gaining in confidence, and we have seen them emerge for the last few evenings after closing. They even made a short appearance over the weekend after one of our fox talks. Of course, it is only a matter of time and they will appear far more often and in front of the crowds and cameras.

Here are a few pics I took yesterday evening of toe of the cubs that were happy for me to be there while they played with their dad, Frodo. In total four cubs have been seen at once so far.