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ELIZABETH HUFFMAN (second from the left) with husband, colleagues and friends on her “Badger Watch”


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dusk? A log? Then a furry white face


striped with liquorice black turned into the light. The shadow and log


were none other than a badger. My first ever badger


firsts do, remain with me indefinitely. Every time I see a picture of a badger or glimpse one in the flesh again, my memory will flick back to this initial vision.


anything wildly dramatic. He simply turned his head and then waddled slowly out of view. Five minutes later, he reappeared and, rather disappointingly, rushed down a hole. Still, I had seen him,


Not that the badger did


sighting occurred at 9-20 p.m. on July 30th, in a Ribble Valley woodland. The moment will, as


trees. A shadow falling at


dark shape, long and low, appeared b e tw e e n tw o


watch, two members of the badger group greeted us with a few last minute reminders. Mrs Kath Entwistle, of


several hours. When we arrived for the


emphasised the impor­ tance of keeping the loca­ tion of the badger sett to ourselves. Although bad­ ger baiting and digging have been illegal in Britain since 1971, badger lovers believe the only way to fully guarantee th e ir safety is secrecy.


however briefly, and that was excitement enough. All this occurred during


silently made our way to the sett. We were taken to a hide


Solemnly sworn, we .


a “Badger Watch.” My husband and I, along with five co l le ag u e s and friends, were treated to an evening of badger watch­ ing through the Lanca­ shire Badger Group. We had been planning the nocturnal expedition


for months and finally our night had come. We were instructed to


dress warmly, for we could be waiting and watching statue-like for


'several spotlights hung high in the trees. A fistful of peanuts was


perched above a wooded glen. Sitting in front of open windows, we could see about a dozen holes illuminated slightly from


scattered on the ground near the hole currently most favoured by the bad­ gers and our watch began


at approximately 9 p.m. We watched and lis­


tened. Sheep bleated in the distance. Birds sang their dusk songs. The rain that had cleared earlier in


Mellor, explained that badgers had an acute sense of hearing, meaning silence was an absolute necessity. She suggested we touch each other, rather than exclaim, when we saw a badger and wanted to alert someone else. Mrs Entwistle also


the day began falling again. Leaves rustled in the cool breeze. We eagerly trained our


eyes and at least seven pairs of binoculars on the sett. I gave into my anthro­


then, we still would have declared the evening a success, because there are nights when no badger appears. There are other times when as many as 11 have emerged and then played in full view of delighted watchers. Our n ex t su rg e of


falling darkness, was a badger. H ad . th e w a tch en d ed


listened to a tawny out­ side our house for months, but only once caught a fleeting glimpse of a dark owl-like shape in the night. This one practically posed for us. Fifteen minutes later,


excitement came with not a badger but a tawny owl, which alighted on a ledge of earth in the glen. My husband and I have


Former curate has book published


anthology of passages from English literature which include references to The Book of Common Prayer, arranged in chanters according to the


in Clitheroe from 1951-54, has spent his retirement writing “For Services Rendered,” described as “an anthol­ ogy in thanksgiving for the Book of Common Prayer.” The book contains an


A FORMER curate at St Mary’s Parish Church, Clitheroe, has written a book to appeal to all those who have found joy and comfort in The Book of Common Prayer. Norman Taylor, curate


order of services — so that readers travel through the Prayer Book, from Morning prayer to the forms of prayer to be used at sea, by means of passages from novels, diaries and autobiographies.


three essays in the book, covering the history of the Prayer Book, music in Anglican worship and the shape of Morning and Evening prayer. The final chapter contains appreciations of the Prayer Book from writ­ ers such as Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle and Iris Murdoch. Mr Taylor, who was


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Clitheroe, despite his 40-year absence. In October he will be back in the town to attend the 50th anniversary of St Mary’s Youth Club, which he ran during his time as curate.


ger in my arm. My silent thoughts slipped away and there, on the other side of the glen, fading into the


waking up, aroused by the sunset alarm clock of the earth? Were they making badger noises and per­ forming th e ir animal ablutions? Suddenly, a poking fin­


pomorphic urges and tried to imagine the sequence of events unfolding in those holes. Were the badgers just


b a d g e r h n d s t i l t n o t , appeared again. Perhaps


the hacking cough of a sheep a few hundred yards away had startled him as it had us. Finally, at 10-30 p.m.,


sighting. We sat and sat. I thought about the novelty of being with a group of people and not uttering a word for more than an hour. Half-an-hour later, the


ger emerged once more and, within seconds, had disappeared into the dark. That was almost our last


covered ground long enough for us to really give him the once over and then made for his hole again. Ten minutes later a bad­


our second badger sighting occurred. This time the badger, a small tank of a mammal with massive paws and a mammoth jaw, beetled around some trees and appeared, like the owl, in full view. He sniffed the peanut-


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Mrs Entwistle suggested we call it a day. We turned on the lights in the hide and broke our silence.


the better of us. Despite our noise, there he was again — and this time he was watching us!


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