Well, well, well! I had my camera too close to the tunnel on Wednesday night and though I caught our visitor I convinced myself it was a fox with a funny tail. Then I looked again frame by frame on Saturday night having seen, sadly, several young badgers dead on the road when I visited my dad, and realised that it was most definitely a badger. I set the camera further back to catch her again - even I couldn’t mistake this for a fox! This has caused considerable neighbourhood excitement and it turns out there are more tunnels than Colditz up and down the road as our friend here is on her nocturnal trips out. Apparently they have a huge range but we also have long gardens down our road and some are wild enough to host a badger sett I reckon!
Weather: cloudy becoming wet but good for gardening
Covid: awaiting a football related surge
Good thing: suburban wildlife
Brilliant, I'm very fond of badgers. When we had major building works on our house two years ago, we rented a farm cottage in north Bedfordshire for 6 months. There were huge badger setts at the side of the driveway and they used to come out and play at night. Looks like your using a similar type of camera to the one I'm using for hedgehogs - good fun, aren't they?
@pistonbroke that sounds fabulous- the camera was a successful lockdown purchase - but really coming into its own now! In fact I made a few good purchases including a birdbath but my husband gets the prize with a projector and screen which has been fab.
I sure hope there won’t be a football related surge, your positive numbers are high enough already