Mark Crockford
 My name is Mark Crockford and I belong to the Vale of White Horse Bird Group and I am
interested in badgers. I travel all over the country in pursuit of my hobbies which are bird
and badger watching.
The Latin name of the badger is meles meles. The male is called a boar and the female a sow. They live
in family groups called clans where the territory is marked by dung pits. Their home is called a sett
and they use runs which are called up and over. They eat insects, rodents, berries and earthworms.
When I go badger watching I often see roe deer, muntjac and fox also owls – barn, little and tawny,
raptors such as buzzards, red kite, sparrowhawk and kestrel. Other birds such as redwing, fieldfare,
yellowhammer, willow warbler and goldfinch.
In the George and Dragon they call me the “badger man”.
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