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Sniggering? Me?!

We have cat ladies, bag ladies.

You have badger ladies?

How did you lose the colonies?

Is there a good, practical reason that badgers are a protected species? Or is it because of in-your-face lobbying by an ecosect à la PETA? Something like LETB — Loonies for the Ethical Treatment of Badgers…

I get the strong impression that Uncle B can protect himself pretty well, not that I’d ever want anyone to try to treat him unethically.

Really?

Did you actually see this small creature raid any food bin?

I’m skeptical. Just because the wee badger was in the area doesn’t mean he/she did anything.

This is just circumstantial evidence!

@Anonymous (12:37 am) — Take a look at the lower left camera feed from yesterday, and compare it to the image today. The photographic evidence merely shows the critter chewing on the corner of the chicken feed bin, and does NOT show him with the lid open and scarfing up the goodies. Innocent! (-:

Might one dare suggest Badger Lives Matter?

I suppose given the humorless ever aggrieved hair triggered internet, one should probably not make such a suggestion.

Poor badger…maybe he can ask Harry for help, he’s back in country and is very good at mooching and scrounging off others.

Welp…We’re off to the local festivities; our little burg’s 200th anniversary & 4th of July bash. We got it all, classic & antique car parade, BBQ competition, tractor pulls and some country singer guy I’ve never heard of, topped off with fireworks. Got the ’56 F-100 all shined up for the parade. That should be fun as there are lots of antique, 50’s & 60’s classic iron in this part of the country. I foresee a pulled pork sammie, grilled corn, and a cherry sno-cone in my future.

I hope your community is celebrating the 4th or having summer fetes, etc this year, it’s damned time we had some fun.

For some reason, Brits don’t celebrate the 4th. We do, though.

Badgers we don’t have in our bit of sunny Florida. Alligators, fox, bald eagles, wild parrots, jays, cardinals, pink spoonbills, cranes of all sorts, effing mockingbirds by the hundreds, white egrets that hunt my lawn for grubs….these are a few of my favorite things! But no badgers.

@Armybrat — …and ibises¹, wood storks, great blue herons, black crowned night herons, woodpeckers, red breasted hawks, anhingas, pelicans, gulls, river otters, anoles, skinks, black snakes, king snakes, corn snakes, tree frogs, armadillos, box turtles, and gopher tortoises.

1. If those birds aerating your lawn hunting for grubs have down-turned beaks, and there are occasional glossy dark-feathered ones, they are likely ibises.

Oops. I messed up the link to the ibis picture I wanted to show. Try this one.

Is this a mean tweet about the state bird of Texas!

I mean who doesn’t like a bird that sings it’s entire song list for hours starting at 2:00 AM.

They especially do it where there are areas illuminated by artificial lighting.

@Stoaty…you mean Brits don’t celebrate shedding a pack of woke loonies bent on destroying civilization as we know it?

The thingie was fun and I may have eaten my weight in Elotes. I hope youse guys can enjoy the summer outings again. Many of my fav tchotchkes came from church white elephant booths.

BTW- I recently read that the gays are losing their grip on National Trust properties. True?

There’s push-back, DJM but the rot runs very deep in the National Trust. and it’s by no means confined to the LGBTQWERTY brigade. It’s the usual story – rich members of the nomenklatura virtue signalling their way onto the main board and every managerial position down from there.

It may be that the only hope is to threaten their charitable status, but guess who runs the Charities Commission…?