sparkiegaz":3v8ciq8p said:
how be great to actually see a badger yes I'm a townie you country boys don't know how lucky you are get all that great riding and wildlife ..
As I said in my first post, the nearest sett is about 50 yards away in a scruffy bit of old woodland I have beyond the top of my garden, and we get the inhabitants in and out if both the front and back gardens nightly.
We also have foxes, although persistent mange seems to do for them all eventually, poor souls, we have deer, which piss my wife off, as they eat her shrubs (makes me laugh), tawny owls, magpies, jays and my favourite, Sparrowhawks. All of them pass through on a regular basis.
The down side is that the badgers dig the shit out of the lawn and will happily upturn and empty planters or tubs if they think there is something tasty in there, the deer are a bit more selective, but seem to love eating flowers, and the Sparrowhak took a mummy blackbird that had been a regular in the garden all summer... nature in the raw I guess.