The night visitors
Using a red filtered torch to watch for badgers coming into the garden for peanuts is becoming a nightly ritual. The problem is judging just when they will arrive.
A week ago we put out a camera that would record what was happening through the late evening, at night, and early morning. There have been a number of surprises - one was the numbers of badgers coming in. One night, just after midnight, there were seven of them just outside the end of the house. There was no competition between them at any time, and the only contacts we recorded were two badgers grooming each other and a pair mating. Another highlight was when an adult brought in two cubs and they all tucked into the peanuts. Only once did we see a badger drink from the bird bath on the ground.
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