T Pearce Wildlife

I have had some positive feedback from my webinar last night on badger field signs, which raised an amazing £1000 for the @badgertrust.bsky.social charity. I’m so pleased as a charity close to my heart and they do some amazing work for #Badgers #Brocktober

Happy National badger day. Take a look at www.badgertrust.org.uk/brocktober and the events taking place during #Brocktober

#NationalBadgerDay
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🌍Happy World Animal Day! 🌍

This Saturday 4th October why not celebrate the magic of the animal kingdom #WorldAnimalDay

Happy Mabon. #mabon is the pagan festival marking the autumn equinox, a time of balance when day and night are equal, symbolizing gratitude, harvest, and the transition from the abundance of summer into the darker half of the year.

Autumn fallow deer rut has begun. The signs are out there. #deer #tracking #autumn #wildlife #tracker #stag #nature #woodlands #mammaltracking #wildlifeguide #natureconnection

Belated happy birthday to Bill. He’s a goodie.

🥳

#billoddie

“Weasel cam “ is set up. Fingers crossed 🤞
Who doesn’t like a small mustelid. And weasels are very elusive.

This field sign is a diurnal resting place used by Vulpes vulpes, aka fox day nest, recently vacated as I saw her leaving 😁

Happy World Otter Day

Otters are great indicators of water quality. They require well-connected wetlands, lochs, reedbeds and good fish, mammal, bird and amphibian populations to survive - conditions that are sadly declining.

📷 I took on the Isle of Mull.

#WorldOtterDay

and also to hear from the other speaker Professor Dawn Scott on Urban Badger Ecology.

Had a lovely day at the Badger Trust AGM. Wonderful to see the crime fact sheets launched, that I have been part of developing with the charity. Also it was a pleasure being asked to deliver a presentation on technology in badger work.

Track and ye shall find.

#wildlifetracker
#wildlifeguide
#mammaltracking
#deer
#wildlifephotography

Nice to see the May bug

Common cockchafer

Happy Earth Day #earthday2025

Fox, badger, deer sign found and also discarded sign such as feather and pellet from Tawny owl too. #wildlifetracking #naturetracking #tracker #wildlife #mammals #wildlifephotography #beautyinnature #natureconnection #wildifeguide #wildlifeguiding

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱

Stoataly wonderful time earlier today, out tracking with a fellow nature deviner. We had the absolute delight of seeing this stoat dragging its dinner past us too.
#wildlifetracking #naturetracking

Otter signs. There were making a comeback but in some areas they are still hard to spot and the state of the pollution in rivers and waterways from intensive agriculture, slurry, maize, chicken muck and then the water companies pumping effluent in doesn’t help. Come on let’s clean up 💦.

Badgers Under Threat: Why the New Planning Bill Spells Disaster for Wildlife Badger Trust Warns: New UK Planning Bill puts badgers & habitats at risk.

🚨 Important Notice: These views do not necessarily represent those of our Badger Group.

Badger Trust warns the new UK Planning Bill could harm badgers and their habitats and urges for strengthened environmental safeguards.

Read the full article www.badgertrust.org.uk/post/badgers...

They scavenge on carrion too.

Brown’s move to the lower climbs seeking snow-free, vegetated areas, then on to clam searching for some and then berries.

Very resourceful big bears.
🐻
Always love talking bear stuff.

Someone was asking me about bears and wake up from hibernation. First male grizzly bears typically emerge from their dens in April, followed by females next month, their first thought is of food this consists of protein-rich sedge grasses found abundantly in the riparian areas and estuaries.

Someone was asking me for otter pics recently, so I was looking over some and I liked this it shows how the can blend in so well and shows their lovely fur... #mullotters

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Tracking makes you look harder.

Some may have missed this fox 🦊 scat as it blended in with the mud.

I’m out early tracking the escaped Shropshire brown bear. 🐻

So far no sightings but getting closer …….

Rather than me telling you what this field sign is why not have a little quiz 🤔 there are no prizes sorry.

So it’s formed (clue) by a land mammal that is known for thier turn of speed.

Answers in comments 🙂

She can occasionally move them, this is a survival and instinctive trait , sometimes caused by fear of predation (infanticide even), typically by red fox or disturbance by man/dogs, or it can be moving them to a clean part of the sett to avoid a build-up of parasites.

Newborn cubs are dependant on the sow badger for the first few months of their lives. Until they come above ground in mid-April onwards and start adventures, they are underground with mum.

𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐮𝐦 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐛𝐬

Mum moved her cubs.

She does this as seen here by gently scruffing and carrying them in her mouth.

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This customer called us in for advice and a survey, he is happy with the badgers living as his downstairs lodgers which is great. He will monitor to make sure no structural damage occurs, if so then we can advise further