Doune badgers

A very enjoyable day with the Biodiversity Officer for Stirling surveying an area of land in the hills above Doune for badger activity. Five of us honed our skills and we found a number of active setts, well away from the farmland in the blip. We also found pine marten scatt and pleasing quantities of frog and toad spawn. 
At the end of the afternoon G showed us a known sett built into a hillside surrounded by coniferous woodland, between 40 and 50 entrances, the badger equivalent of high rise living. Very exciting.
I dropped in on Lorne and Liv before I drove home. They were having limited success in erecting a bird table and Islay dog was out of sorts having been stung by a bee.