Saw one about an hour ago on a walk with the dog in Belfairs Woods - it popped its nose out of the undergrowth after Milo passed by (he was about 20 meters ahead of me), checked both ways then calmly pottered across the path in front of me.
We used to have badgers visit our garden every night. My wife used to provide peanuts ....sometimes tiny peanut butter sandwiches for them! We would sit in the dark by the French doors with our cats at our feet, watching the badgers tucking in on the other side of the glass. The garden security floodlight didn't bother them a bit. In the springtime/early summer we had little baby badgers chasing each other around our lawn engaging in a bit of rough and tumble.
Once we started getting rats following them through the hole under our fence I had to take action and concrete up the hole - which was a great pity. I miss their visits but at least the lawn no longer looks like it has been visited by a squadron of JCBs in the night. We now hand feed the squirrels instead.
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