robby b Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 It's high time there was a thread about badgers. And especially if I'm not the only badger enthusiast on Villa Talk. So here it is, a place for badger stories and pictures as well as any reports of sightings. Â Badger in a manger Not that long ago when I was in the countryside one day I was lucky enough to see three actual real life badgers! But I'll kick off with a photo I took during a different kind of sighting... a few years ago I was walking through Seaford one evening close to Christmas when I suddenly saw an unusual nativity scene in the window of a printing shop: Â Â @alreadyexists 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNVillan Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 Hate em 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted August 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2023 The badger is your true king ... Ted Hughes wrote ... Quote I flash-glimpsed in the headlights — the high momentOf driving through England — a killed badgerSprawled with helpless legs. Yet againManoeuvred lane-ends, retracked, waitedOut of decency for headlights to die,Lifted by one warm hindleg in the world-nightA slain badger. August dust-heat. Beautiful,Beautiful, warm, secret beast.  1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2023 3 hours ago, MNVillan said: Hate em Yeah, but you're talking about those weird American badgers. Proper British badgers are cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted August 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2023 3 hours ago, MNVillan said: Hate em 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted August 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2023 4 hours ago, robby b said: It's high time there was a thread about badgers. And especially if I'm not the only badger enthusiast on Villa Talk. So here it is, a place for badger stories and pictures as well as any reports of sightings.  Badger in a manger Not that long ago when I was in the countryside one day I was lucky enough to see three actual real life badgers! But I'll kick off with a photo I took during a different kind of sighting... a few years ago I was walking through Seaford one evening close to Christmas when I suddenly saw an unusual nativity scene in the window of a printing shop:   @alreadyexists What an excellent idea @robby b I work with ecologists sometimes in my job, and I found out the other day that it’s actually illegal to publish the locations of a badger sett. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rodders Posted August 2, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2023 Â Thread would be incomplete without this 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 The badgers in my neighbourhood love plundering everyone's gardens and bins. They're acting more like raccoons. I used to like them, now I'm spending time protecting my berries and veg from them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 17 minutes ago, magnkarl said: The badgers in my neighbourhood love plundering everyone's gardens and bins. They're acting more like raccoons. I used to like them, now I'm spending time protecting my berries and veg from them.. :s Oh dear, I'd never considered that. So that's like foxes and seagulls, going through people's bins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dogg Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 52 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: What an excellent idea @robby b I work with ecologists sometimes in my job, and I found out the other day that it’s actually illegal to publish the locations of a badger sett. And don't keep pestering them to reveal the locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 House backs onto a field so I get them all the time. Hated the **** always ripping up the garden, digging holes abd wrecking stuff. It used to be way worse before I got the dog. Now I just let the Labrador out. He chases them round the garden trying to play but I don't think the badgers feel the same! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 My uncle actually used to let a badger live with him in his house. As you can imagine, it was chaos. The things it used to eat and the mess it used to leave around the place. He was a bit of a handyman and he started taking the badger to work with him. It was ridiculous, it would cause so much havoc. Things only got worse when he introuced a mouse to the equation a few years later. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2023 50 minutes ago, magnkarl said: The badgers in my neighbourhood love plundering everyone's gardens and bins. They're acting more like raccoons. I used to like them, now I'm spending time protecting my berries and veg from them.. We don't need no steenkin' badgers...? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted August 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2023 19 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: My uncle actually used to let a badger live with him in his house. As you can imagine, it was chaos. The things it used to eat and the mess it used to leave around the place. He was a bit of a handyman and he started taking the badger to work with him. It was ridiculous, it would cause so much havoc. Things only got worse when he introuced a mouse to the equation a few years later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 (edited) Edited August 2, 2023 by GarethRDR 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tomav84 Posted August 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted August 2, 2023 has anyone actually seen one alive? only ever seen them dead at the side of the road  2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withes_shin Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 2 minutes ago, tomav84 said: has anyone actually seen one alive? only ever seen them dead at the side of the road  Seen a few alive. Seen more dead, like you say in the side of the road. What you'll notice is that they have very little damage to their bodies or blood around them, this is because the farmers gas them and lay them at the side of the road so it looks like they've been hit by a car. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 19 minutes ago, tomav84 said: has anyone actually seen one alive? only ever seen them dead at the side of the road  ☆☆☆ sighting report ☆☆☆ Yes, I have but only once, it was a few years ago when I was out for a run at the start of the South Downs next to Eastbourne. I was running down a hill and suddenly in the long-ish grass near the path I saw an adult badger with two little ones, a few metres away, and just at that moment they saw me too. We were all surprised... they made me jump and I made them jump too at the same time! Then they quickly scurried away and out of sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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