Anyone else ever seen a live badger?

[Fastpedaller]

I couldn't see which part of the forum to ask (pets didn't seem appropriate )......... as stated in the title, have you seen a live badger?
At the ago of 66, I'd only ever seen 'road kill' badgers (probably 4 or 5 in total), and joyfully I saw a live one last week .
We were on holiday at a chalet park on the South Coast. Our daughter suddenly announced from her bedroom "quick, I've seen a beaver". In her excitement she'd got her B's muddled, but there it was, a badger visible in the light from the window, and then leaping near it was a fox! The fox startled the badger, which went away at a great rate of knots, and we quickly went to the lounge area of the chalet and saw it disappearing into the distance. We were surprised, as it ran pretty fast, like a startled cat. This all came about because our Daughter looked outside after hearing a noise she thought was rain. This was the first night of our week's holiday, and we were on 'unsuccessful lookout' for the rest of the week.

 

[simonali]

I once saw a live badger eating a dead one that had been run over. That's what it looked like it was doing anyway

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Yes
Riding to work one morning, during early COVID, I thought it was a black bin-liner in the breeze, at the opposite side of the road
Once it came out of the shadows, it was a reasonably sized Badger, trotting along the pavement!!

 

[Dave7]

We had a mobile home on Anglesey and would get several, most nights, on our decking.

 

[numbnuts]

My sister feed them, her place backs onto wood and they have setup a camera to watch then.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yep, if you ride in the dark often enough, and particularly off road you’ll see them time to time. Favourite was four of them bouncing along a bridleway in front of me on a night time mountain bike excursion.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

Well.. when my sister in law is in a mood…

 

[richardfm]

We have friends who until recently lived in Pembrokeshire. Their back garden had open fields and woodland beyond. They would often get badgers in the garden.

 

[Ian H]

I've nearly hit them at night on the bike. I've chased along lanes in the car - you have to be patient until they find a suitable exit. A very rural friend of mine, who might be an occasional amateur poacher, once exclaimed in surprise, "Have you never eaten badger ham?"

 

[Drago]

Yes, used to seem them occasionally cycling home at 2am,

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Back in the days when I used to work, I met badgers a couple of times on my commute.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes, used to seem them occasionally cycling home at 2am,

 

[tyred]

Yes, often. Growing up on a farm, there were badgers to be seen in the fields at night.

 

[Baldy]

Yes, when I lived in Leicester City often had them in the garden. Since I moved to rural Scotland I haven't seen any.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

I was staying at a lodging in Inversnaid a few years ago and was two badgers eating the jam sandwiches that the owner of the lodging had put out for them.