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		<title>Nature&#8217;s digging machines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday night I watched my usual woodland sett for the first time since my brief visit over a week before (on the evening when I returned Willow, the badger cub, to the wild &#8211; see Willow goes wild). I &#8230; <a href="http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/natures-digging-machines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brockwatcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12161475&amp;post=467&amp;subd=brockwatcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Badgers, 24 July 2010</media:title>
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		<title>The agony and the ecstasy</title>
		<link>http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Badger persecution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brockwatcher&#8217;s beginnings, Part 4. After yesterday&#8217;s instalment of words and pictures relating to my beginnings as a Brockwatcher, today I continue the story with more memories of the delights of watching badgers, and of my first direct experience of the &#8230; <a href="http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brockwatcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12161475&amp;post=459&amp;subd=brockwatcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">My first good badger photo</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Share and share alike? Not likely!</media:title>
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		<title>Brockwatcher&#8217;s beginnings, part 3</title>
		<link>http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/brockwatchers-beginnings-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Badger watching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from Brockwatcher&#8217;s beginnings, and Brockwatcher&#8217;s beginnings, Part 2 &#8230; My involvement in the study and conservation of all kinds of wildlife continued apace in 1978. During regular forays into the countryside close to home, I recorded the presence &#8230; <a href="http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/brockwatchers-beginnings-part-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brockwatcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12161475&amp;post=452&amp;subd=brockwatcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Badger cubs at sunset - click to view on Flickr</media:title>
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		<title>Brock Wars: the Farmers Strike Back</title>
		<link>http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/brock-wars-the-farmers-strike-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last instalment of the Brock Wars saga ended with the rebel alliance (led by the Badger Trust) neutralising their opponents’ Death Czar (the Welsh Assembly Government’s Elin Jones) with the recent Appeal Court ruling against badger culling. Inevitably however, &#8230; <a href="http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/brock-wars-the-farmers-strike-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brockwatcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12161475&amp;post=440&amp;subd=brockwatcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A summer evening&#8217;s walk</title>
		<link>http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/a-summer-evenings-walk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a grey old day today, but things were very different three years ago&#8230; 18 July 2007. Following heavy showers earlier today, it looked like the weather would hold for a beautiful summer evening&#8217;s walk. I decided on a favourite &#8230; <a href="http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/a-summer-evenings-walk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brockwatcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12161475&amp;post=427&amp;subd=brockwatcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A taste of summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another dip into the archives&#8230; 14 July 2007. Summer sunshine has been in short supply so far this year. Fortunately, today&#8217;s quota was above average, and I made the most of it by getting out with my camera. Fields and &#8230; <a href="http://brockwatcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/a-taste-of-summer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brockwatcher.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12161475&amp;post=416&amp;subd=brockwatcher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Meadow brown butterfly - click to view on Flickr</media:title>
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