Badger, badger, badger, badger...

[Baggy]

...well, just the one actually!

Opened the back door to let Doogie mog out last night and Chuffy could hear something in the garden, eating...

A quick flash of torch revealed a baby badger digging up some nommy worms!

It didn't seem too bothered that there were humans nearby, but it trundled further down the garden to explore the compost heap.

Hope it becomes a regular visitor!

 

[wafflycat]

Hmm... badgers are lovely when they are in someone else's garden. They'll dig up Chuffy's veg patch you know. And if you've got hens, given half a chance they'll snack on those too.

 

[catalan chris]

...and if you happen to have a pet cow, it might catch TB!??!

 

[PatrickPending]

I saw one whilst cycling on my commute a month back just outside claybrooke magna. Quite big I thought and if i was a bit eaarlier i might have run into him!

 

[Arch]

I saw a tip on telly, apparently they love peanuts, so if you put plenty of them out, they don't bother with the hard work of digging things up...

No idea if that works!

 

[Piemaster]

Someone say badgers?

 

[HJ]

...well, just the one actually!

Opened the back door to let Doogie mog out last night and Chuffy could hear something in the garden, eating...

A quick flash of torch revealed a baby badger digging up some nommy worms!

It didn't seem too bothered that there were humans nearby, but it trundled further down the garden to explore the compost heap.

Hope it becomes a regular visitor!

Say good bye to the garden...

 

[ufkacbln]

I thought you meant Badger, Badger, Badger

I have one that I often see i n the same place on my early commutes - often just sits there and watches me go past!

 

[lukesdad]

Verdict due on the cull in Wales in the high court.

 

[Baggy]

Ah well, Chuffy's more bothered about the garden than me If it kills the garden we might try some peanuts - but irrespective of damage it's just nice to see a live one, have already seen two dead cubs nearby this year

 

[Crackle]

Only live wild one I've seen was on a campsite I was staying at, furtling near the tents very late on. My brain slowly ticked around to solving the mystery of where my bacon had gone, so it's not just Peanuts they like.

 

[Plax]

I've only ever seen dead badgers
Come to think about it, I've only ever seen one live fox too.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I used to see quite a few when I lived in Somerset. They used to play chicken across the road about 1am in the morning. Other times they'd run down a lane along your headlight beam. Once, one came out of a hedge while I was jogging. The badger did an about turn and I jumped about 3ft in the air. I can only remember seeing one since I moved to Reading. I was cycling down a lane in the dark with inadequate lighting and going down a steep hill. A car was behind me, which was just as well because it lit up a badger in the middle of the road eating some road kill. I wouldn't have wanted to cycle into that.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I've only ever seen dead badgers
Come to think about it, I've only ever seen one live fox too.

me too, although i've seen quite a few live foxes, including one sat bold as brass in my in-law's fence…

 

[Wigsie]

Growing up we lived on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, our next door neighbour used to put food out every night for the foxes and the badgers!

BBC Natural world used to use his garden to film foxes and badgers, he could call them anytime after dark and they would trundle from the woods into his garden and up onto his patio, we would sit next to the glass watching them playing in the garden and eating the meat/veg he would leave for them.

Hit one with a car once, caused £600 of damage and he was fine, they are pure muscle.