TEMPLE BALSALL BADGERS IN AN APRIL SUNSET...

 TEMPLE BALSALL BADGERS IN AN APRIL SUNSET…

There was a reverence about the abject silence

And the sentry like stillness

Employed whilst watching these badgers feeding,

Aware of the sunlight’s solemn glare,

As daylight finally passes,

Fading orange at their backs;

As they nuzzled, discerning and kneading,

One despaired of rendering oneself lax,

Or crack a twig, or rustle stiff grasses

To illicit an intolerant stare

From these nocturnal mammals quite listless

And force the inevitable retreat and reticence…

Pete Ray

20th April 2021…

Two feeding badgers amazed, as a third popped its head up from a sett, along Temple Lane, Warwickshire.

A fourth badger had found some of the peanuts we had scattered around another sett upon the natural cemetery grounds further along the same lane but it had become too dark to capture that badger on film…