Watching live badgers in the wild is on our bucket list so we booked to see them from the Kew Wakehurst hide. It being a bit of a drive from Walthamstow and a weekday evening we decided to make a day of it. This meant we finally got to visit Kew Wakehurst and what a wonder it is. We were enthralled from the moment we walked through the entrance and stopped in awe to delight at the carpet of cyclamen under the grand oak trees - we'd not seen them in such profusion before.
Another ecstatic first for us was spotting this Humming-bird Hawk-moth, Macroglossum stellatarum, which we watched, for a good 20min, flitting around the buddleia until it was satiated.
We had a good walk to Westwood lake where we admired brimstone butterflies and dragonflies on the reedbed and spotted the very glimpse of a kingfisher (our first sighting for the UK) as we strolled around the far end of the lake. The mallards stopped their gobbling of the blackberries to ogle us eating our lunch.
Whiling away the last light 'til sundown - sadly this was the closest we got to seeing "a badger". The badgers were a no-show. Hey ho.
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