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Mammals - Badger Page 16

Image Taken on 02 Mar 2023 at 03:10 Image of day on 01 Apr 2023

This pair of Badgers continue to spend a lot of time romping, or whatever, at the Round Mound and near the east hedge gap

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Image Taken on 21 Mar 2021 at 20:35 Image of day on 17 Apr 2021

All in less than a minute, and we can only guess what is going on.

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Image Taken on 24 Oct 2021 at 03:20 Image of day on 06 Dec 2021

These two Badgers tumble down the Round Mound in a ball of fur, before quietly wandering off. Despite their toughness, even adult Badgers seem to be really playful.

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Image Taken on 08 Oct 2019 at 03:02 Image of day on 27 Nov 2019

In the hours after midnight 2 Badgers keep a tryst.

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Image Taken on 29 May 2022 at 21:24 Image of day on 19 Jul 2022

Two badgers at the hedge bottom site - we think a youngster and Mum or Dad off the right side.

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Image Taken on 09 Aug 2018 at 01:10 Image of day on 28 Sep 2018

We are now sure that we have at least 2 similarly pristine Badgers, the one to the left/behind with slightly duller white fur areas.

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Image Taken on 19 Apr 2026 at 19:39 Image of day on 25 May 2026

Next night the Badgers make several visits down the Round Mound hole - from about 150 trail-cam pics here is a handful (+ one Fox).
A change (not shown) is that long abandoned rabbit holes in the south side of the mound have been cleaned out - we guess that the Rabbits have been somewhat 'dispossessed'.

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Image Taken on 27 Mar 2026 at 01:21 Image of day on 01 May 2026

NOT a montage. We have now moved this camera - see later 2 nights later the same trail cam catches two Badgers on the Mound together.

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Image Taken on 16 Jun 2024 at 02:41 Image of day on 18 Jul 2024

In the early hours this disparately sized pair of Badgers amble over the grass towards the south hedge gap.

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Image Taken on 09 Dec 2020 at 18:37 Image of day on 11 Jan 2021

A couple of Badgers making procession through the orchard.

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Image Taken on 27 Jun 2018 at 02:25 Image of day on 16 Aug 2018

4 days later, this adult Badger arrives as the young badger seems to be leaving, having not previously triggered the camera.

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Image Taken on 26 Jan 2018 at 16:59 Image of day on 14 Mar 2018

Four regular 'Mound visitors' species captured over 50 hours, all where they were at the time.

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Image Taken on 23 Mar 2023 at 06:53 Image of day on 29 Apr 2023

In the margin between the farm crop and the main road this over 2 metre long trench appeared overnight. It doesn't seem to have been touched since. Our guess is this a mole tunnel has been dug out by a badger hoping to catch the mole. We doubt that it had any success, and didn't bother to try again.
Mole nurseries are substantial mounds, so this isn't an attack on youngsters.

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Image Taken on 07 May 2010 at 22:11 Image of day on 06 Jun 2010

Looks like badgers like slugs!
Bottom of the image we have a fieldmouse (wood mouse) doing its usual coexistence with slugs. Half an hour later the badger arrived and it looks like it quickly cleared the stone of slugs. With their poor eyesight and probably out of view, the slug at the bottom left of the stone may have escaped, but this was the last frame for many hours so we don't know.

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Image Taken on 11 May 2021 at 01:08 Image of day on 10 Jun 2021

A little Fox vs Badger moment.
The Fox goes for drink in the pond, and as the fox pulls away from the water there is a Badger approaching directly at the Fox, causing him to crouch down and lay ears flat. It seems that is the Fox makes a speedy exit rather than the Badger. We had never thought before about a 'pecking order' between these two visitors.

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Image Taken on 29 Mar 2022 at 23:48 Image of day on 24 Apr 2022

Just before midnight, what we think is a Fox (2 eyes left) watching a Badger foraging along the edge of Round Pond, with a pair of Mallard ducks safely out on the water.

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Image Taken on 10 Jul 2018 at 00:11 Image of day on 31 Aug 2018

In just half an hour this site saw visits by a Fox and two very obviously different Badgers.

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Image Taken on 10 Mar 2023 at 21:31 Image of day on 13 Apr 2023

A Fox vs. Badger confrontation.
The Fox is already crouched (bottom left) before the badger becomes more than a pair of reflecting eyes. As the Badger emerges from behind the tree they too stop and we have a face-off. Adult Fox - Badger conflicts normally end up the worse for the Fox. This is the last we see of the encounter - we hope they avoided a needless fight.

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Image Taken on 01 Jun 2024 at 20:32 Image of day on 29 Jun 2024

One of the regular Foxes looks ready to grab anything stupid enough to stick their head out of the hole.
Unsurprisingly nothing did!

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Image Taken on 13 Apr 2014 at 07:45 Image of day on 01 Jun 2014

A Great Tit with a beakful of hair.
Its a long story, but we had a dead badger (Road kill) at this site for a few days hoping to see what came to take it away, but whatever moved it didn't break the camera trigger beam, & dragged it about 15 metres before leaving it. We think the Great Tit has found some of the poor things fur stuck to the ground.

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