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Badger fun and chaos

I have related to one or two of my friends and relatives the story of our garden badgers. This was taken just over a year ago in our back garden. I had decided to get a wild-life camera that was triggered by a movement sensor with an infra-red light after our garden was being continually wrecked during the evenings. One year on and our lawns still gets pulled apart every few days. The idea of the camera was to see what was doing the damage. They never come during the day and we do not feed them, although tempted, as you can imagine. I think this trio was a mother and two cubs. At first we thought them very cute but after wrecking two of our lovely lawns we now view these slightly differently. We think they have a sett somewhere near our railway linear park walk but they can range miles for food. I imagine that they pull away the top layer of soil and grass to get at worms and grubs. - This camera does capture in colour but during the night with this light it defaults to monochrome. Sorry no sound.

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John Cass said:

Wonderful capture.
3 years ago ( translate )

Herb Riddle replied to John Cass:

Thanks John.
3 years ago ( translate )

Rosalyn Hilborne said:

A fabulous video of the badgers Herb. Unfortunately they can be very destructive, but they do look cute at play. Very nicely captured. Cheers, Rosa.
3 years ago

HappySnapper said:

I suppose the never ending debate, A lawn to you, a patch of grass to the Badger, depends which side of the fence you are on Herb. Me ! I'll sit on the fence for now.
From the photography point of view a very entertaining few seconds of film, also rewarding for you diligence.
3 years ago

Tractacus said:

What a lovely sight. Though I might think differently if my lawn was demolished at regular intervals.
3 years ago

cammino said:

Great find and video!
3 years ago

Peter Castell said:

A great capture they can do a lot of damage I think some of the ultra sonic deterrents are supposed to work on Badgers, if there is cattle market near you they may sell something to deter them, many years ago I used Bone Oil to stop foxes it was a pain to use
3 years ago

Ingo Krehl said:

Mach aber trotzdem spass beim Spielen zuzusehen.
3 years ago ( translate )

gezginruh said:

Great capture!!!

Best wishes
Füsun
3 years ago ( translate )

Jeff Farley said:

A superb video Herb.
Thank you for posting to FFF.
3 years ago

Keith Burton said:

I love the video Herb............it's fascinating to watch and pretty good quality. I feel sorry for the damage these badgers are doing to your garden though, it must be heartbreaking after all the work you put in.

Its difficult to blame the animal though - they're just doing what comes naturally - not that that is much help to you.
3 years ago

J.Garcia said:

Seeing this wonderful playground of badgers is delightful!
The worst is the damage ... how to balance this problem, Herb?!
Lovely vídeo
In the end they seem to realize that they are being watched..
Your note is also very interesting
3 years ago

neira-Dan said:

Génial !!
3 years ago ( translate )

Nick Weall said:

Well caught Herb ~ Happy Snapper sums it up well
3 years ago

Herb Riddle said:

Update: After suffering a tiny amount of what our lawn suffers, our next door neighbour yesterday decided to do something about it. They bought some lawn steel netting and covered most of their higher lawn with it, leaving a gap at the bottom side. This gap area looked perfect until this morning! The badger(s) had obviously thought - "what's this stuff, trying to stop me digging, I shall show them!" The neighbours will not be pleased on seeing this today! - Its, funny really!

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3 years ago