Hi, I'm Rudi, i'm 8 years old and my favourite book is 'Tarka the Otter' by Henry Williamson. Its about the life of an otter named Tarka and British Wildlife. One night i was reading the book with my dad and i said that i wanted to see all the animals in the book, he said i should do it and call it the Tarka Challenge. My Tarka Challenge started on 1st January 2012. The book contains 89 birds, 54 land based animals, 120 plants and 56 aquatic organisms.

The rules are simple, i must either see each thing myself or photograph it using my trail camera. I will try and see each thing on my local patch (Ogmore River Catchment) but may need to look somewhere else in Britain.

Update

Ive got a busy week this week. First a friend gave me 4 Barn Owl Pellets which i am dissolving in a bucket of water. The owls cant digest bones and fur so they squeeze all the bones and fur of their prey together in the stomach and then throw up the pellet through their mouth. If you examine the bones in the pellet you can tell what they have been eating.  I have been following Nick Bakers advice on how to do this. I will update you later.......



We have a small pond in the garden and i have always wondered what goes on below the surface. So I have cleaned out an old fish tank and filled it with gravel and a jug of pond water and some pond weeds. I am going to make a film of the pond life. It seems like a battlefield with lots of things fighting and eating each other. I will update you later.......



On Sunday i am travelling a long way to hopefully see a Black Grouse Lek. Fingers crossed that it all works out. I cant wait. I will update you later..........

Check out the Black Grouse - http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/b/blackgrouse/index.aspx

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