tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107112365381397932.post6770960138044083884..comments2023-05-03T17:01:59.716+01:00Comments on Great Grandma's Hotchpotch: BADGER IN THE SNOWSylvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01181210810835897800noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107112365381397932.post-31667097140977427732012-02-14T09:55:47.497+00:002012-02-14T09:55:47.497+00:00I'm happy to see it/they are back....wish we h...I'm happy to see it/they are back....wish we had wild life in our garden...still not many birds and certainly no badgers or foxes..though Jonathan tells me they are here...but never seen any though not even as road kill..Dutch Duohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15080301144466728172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107112365381397932.post-11326934233384164502012-02-12T10:22:50.316+00:002012-02-12T10:22:50.316+00:00I too have trouble taking pictures through glass.
...I too have trouble taking pictures through glass.<br />In the 'old days' of film cameras you could set the focus by distance to the subject(ie 8feet) and the glass would have little effect. My digital camera automatically focuses, sometimes on the distance to the glass window. I expect there is a way of doing things manually, but my instructions are somewhere deep on my hard drive.<br />(thanks for email)....BBernardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09024557597864373705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107112365381397932.post-29013489505184457342012-02-11T10:29:45.354+00:002012-02-11T10:29:45.354+00:00I saw it again last night but had put out peanuts ...I saw it again last night but had put out peanuts in advance this time.<br />If you put peanuts in a container with a cover of some sort the badger should be able to just push it off. Try jacket potato skins, they like those- all sorts in, say, a washing up bowl.They have 'practical' noses; saw one once in the anti-pigeon cage over the bird seed tray then watched it just lift the cage and saunter away...Sylvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01181210810835897800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107112365381397932.post-26637447874781353952012-02-10T13:18:56.296+00:002012-02-10T13:18:56.296+00:00How interesting that you showed a badger. I'm ...How interesting that you showed a badger. I'm sure one visited our garden, when a heavy stone was pushed off an opened bag of compost. I wondered if he was looking for grubs.<br />I daren't put peanuts down, as if a badger doesn't eat them, Ellie will!Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04003521059890699861noreply@blogger.com