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Signs
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Typical
examples of badger tracks
between
two sett entrances, and . . . |
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across
the verge of a country lane
and
up a bank through a hedge
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The
classic shape of an entrance hole,
similar
to a capital letter D lying on its back |
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Badger
hairs caught on
a
barbed wire fence |
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An
elder tree used as a scratching
post
outside a woodland sett |
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This
badger dung pit clearly shows that
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badger ate a recent meal of wheat . . . |
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. . while this one is more typical
of
the preferred diet of worms |
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A
badger footprint, showing four toes in a line
with
a smaller fifth one on the left, and
the kidney shaped main pad. Lack of claw marks suggest this was a rear
foot |
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Typical
scrapes, where the
badger
has scratched . . . |
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. . a shallow depression
to
retrieve some tasty grub |
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Badger
warning signs on
trial
throughout
the county
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The
Highways Authority took remedial
action
to stop spoil from this extensive
sett
spilling onto the road . . . |
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. . and the badgers responded by opening
a
new entrance even closer to
the road edge!
A
licence was required to carry out this
work as it was so close to the sett
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Pictures
of the
creatures themselves |
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A
trio of badgers (a cete of badgers)
outside
their sett (yes, cete really is the
collective
noun for a group of badgers)
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Different
cete, different sett
(confusing,
isn't it!)
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This
solitary badger made himself a day bed
with
hay taken from the adjacent stables,
and
slept here through the hot summer days |
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A
young badger which managed to get
itself
trapped under some wire netting |
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The
Group's badger-watching hide,
available
only for the use of members |
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A
badger emerges at dusk,
photographed
from our hide
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A
badger and muntjac deer eating peanuts
together,
captured on infra-red camera |
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And
a badger (back to camera) with a fox |
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A
badger scavenges a dead wood pigeon
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Colour
variations
Mounted
specimens of
erythristic
(pale gingery) . . . |
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. . and albino badgers
(note
those strong front digging claws!)
both
these animals were killed in road accidents in Buckinghamshire |
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Front
(on the left) and rear paws of a badger.
Those
strong front digging claws again |
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Lateral
view of a badger skull, showing
the
developing sagittal crest
by
kind permission of Will Higgs from his Skull
Preparation site |
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The
only view of a badger many people
ever
have - just another statistic |
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Badger
persecution and illegal activities |
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This
illegally stopped sett clearly
shows
marks left by the spade
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The
same entrance with the sods partially
removed,
revealing the classic entrance shape |
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This
sett entrance had a narrow
escape
from the plough . . . |
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. . but this chamber collapsed
when
it was ploughed over |
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A
snared badger - clicking
this link
will take
you
to our snares page
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Tongs,
used to pull badgers from
their
sett to be used for baiting
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