Terry Flanagan

Now, Terry Flanagan, you were out and about this week doing some reports.

Yes, we had an email in from an old friend of the programme, Gustavo Zolads.

He's a wildlife fanatic and I've been out with him on a number of occasions.

We were watching foxes, we've been watching owls and peregrine falcons all across the city of Dublin.

Well, he has recently discovered two badger sets along the River Dodder.

Interestingly, both are on different sides of the river and both groups of badgers don't seem to interact with each other.

Gustavo invited me down to observe their behaviour and during the week I met Gustavo for a spot of badger watching.

It looks like a kind of a cup-shaped mound of earth.

Good morning Derek and good morning to all your listeners in this beautiful world of nature we have.

It's completely surrounded by trees, by sycamore trees.

I can't see anything in it.

I thought I'd like to share a magnificent sighting I had the other day while out in my garden.

That is the set, is it?

Yeah, that's right.

That's exactly what it is.

And it's about two or three, maybe four metres high.

I was sitting down by my table and I spotted five little birds on my fence.

On the left mummy robin, three little baby robin chicks and on the right was daddy robin and what I saw really astounded me.

Both mummy robin and daddy robin were feeding the chicks with worms from my garden.

It is very thick here.