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I live near a field and it's had Badgers in it for the 50 yrs I've lived her (since I was born) some yrs ago, or about the time of the badger culling, one of the sets had all the holes filled in with hard-core. I removed it all by hand which took me 3 hours and they seemed to be OK when I checked a few days later as you could see badgers activity around the set.
I believe the penalty for Interfering with a badger's sett, either deliberately or accidentally, is up to 6 months in prison, do you think the hard-core vandals knew that? Oh and well done for doing that.👍
& Do you think it's Right For the holes to be filled..........I think millions will agree with me it is Not" Stop f***** with God's creation & protecting the Evil doers....Fool😂
Thank you, Liam. A few years ago, in the town centre of Somerset's county town about midnight, where I bide, an adult badger strolled past. We exchanged respectful greetings, before he (I believe, he), sniffed the air, then gave me a 'knowing' look, before crossing the usually (but then quiet) very busy main drag (A38), and then going upon his/her busy way. A very soulful meeting, for me. Stay free. Rab 💚 🌠
We have several badgers visit every night. They like digestive biscuits, and peanuts. Always a privilege to see them turn up. Disgusted by badger culling
Same here, have a set at the far end of they garden, not bad for the leafy suburbs of NW London. Mine get peanuts, a few digestives, various dog foods but they love small pieces of wholemeal peanut butter sandwiches ,which a couple of "my" badgers will gladly take from my hand, one will even stand with its front paws on my knee while doing so. The first one I fed would come up to me and prompt me to feed it by using his paw and that was about 15 years ago, I have been out every night since come rain or snow, except for four nights spent in hospital. It's a privilege to have such creatures so close at hand.
I love the badger. What a terrific UK wild mammal. Saw one early morning in the park - thought it was a cat at first, but when it started running, with its funny podgy body and black and white stripes. Great.
I knew of a badger set, we stumbled upon it by accident, it was just going dark and a family of about 5/6 came out of the set or sets. I was 22 and it was my first encounter of a badger in the wild.
I can tell you a fact about badgers: You can NEVER rule anything out with badgers! Their hair is banded black and white making them look grey. Also, their hair shaft is triangular, so a badger hair rolled between your fingers won’t roll smoothly. Only a select few know how to kill hedgehogs. Also, the cubs most likely have different fathers in the same litter as the sows have something called ‘delayed implantation.’ From an active badger rescuer and has been to several full w/E badger conferences. Oh, and imo, I believe cattle give tb to the badgers and other species in the first place (badgers love to dig under cow pats for grubs and worms). My theory isn’t supported by gov scientists however.
We need to kill more badgers. Good for nothing except making shaving brushes. And where there is lots of badgers, there are no hedghogs, and all badgers will kill and eat the baby hoglets.
I had a cousin who was a country vet and her husband was a farmer, they both were girmly of the conviction that it is cows who give tb to the badgers, and culling badgers is not the answer but a mere sop to farmers who should have better farming practice.
I have been all over Britain an it is rare but not impossible to see these beautiful creatures, i don't believe in the cull i personality think it's the farmers an wealthy landowners who don't want to pay for their cattle to be immunised, leave them alone. Great show again
I think you are lucky. I spend a lot of time around badger setts and still only see them rarely. In some places they are quite used to people so I suppose if they are like that you might see them more often.
Do badgers have any animal predators? I saw one when I was a child. It was during the day in a forest on holiday in Wales. It was a lot bigger than I expected!
Badgers adore bird peanuts and fat balls and will break into sheds and dustbins to get them. They are also easily able to work out food recycling bins even with a weigh on the top. Simple push the bin over to get rid of the weight then move the handle and then simply get your nose in to enter the bin.
All it does, apart from murdering lots of beautiful, innocent creatures, is make room for other badgers to move in to the culling area, achieving nothing useful. There has to be a more civilised way to deal with Bovine TB ,it's the 21st century not the 19th after all.
Very interesting. On Saturday I was checking the trail cam I have set up at the bottom of my garden and found footage of a baby badger snooping about, which was nice.
That was very interesting, didn't know they catch and eat hedgehogs. ..wow....lol...had a badger in my garden last year, sniffing around some plant pots, amazing to see. Thanks for your work.
I used to live in Northampton and I came a couple of badgers while walking back to my university campus while absolutely hammered. The size of these guys is fairly impressive although I don't understand why so many people are scared of them
Cheers. Them eating hedgehogs wouldn't cause an issue if there was plenty of good habitat for the hedgehogs to sustain healthy numbers. That said, there are some signs that hedgehogs may be recovering in numbers in a few places so fingers crossed.
@@AShotOfWildlife I think you need to stop lying dude. They are dangerous animals that challenge and charge at you. Their numbers are getting out of hand now. We are not used to them and they are not used to us. It’s an issue.
My family were camping on shell island. A badger stolen all the food from the cool box in the awning. U could see the trail of food the next morning near the holes. Big Bertie and co had a full feast that evening.
Have loads of Badger runs were I live, really beautiful animals to watch I love all wild life and respect it all as it was there land before we took it over
We used to see Momma badger pass our garden most nights… then didn’t see her for a while and I was getting worried about her.. then she popped up with her baby!!! Unfortunately, a week or so later there was a dead badger in the graveyard… no way was it hit by a car as the road isn’t near the church yard and I think some scuzz bag is poisoning them!!! Makes me so angry! We saw the youngster alone and it was probably looking for mum and if it followed her scent would have found her body in the graveyard and that thought breaks my heart 😢
That's a shame. Hopefully the youngster was old enough to fend for itself and survived. I think something nefarious may be happening at my local sett too, no dead animals but the badgers seem to have all gone in tge last 6 months.
@@AShotOfWildlife So sad! We should be protecting our badgers, not culling them. I’m not a great fan of farmers… or Tories and it seems they are the two groups that seem to particularly hate these beautiful beasts 😢
About 15 years ago I had a car accident with a badger. At first I did not know what I hit till I went a few meters back and saw it was a badger. Was like hitting a speed bump at 100kmh. I went back to my car and got the wrench for changing the tires, just in case. When I came close to the badger I noticed he was dead. Just to look at it give you a sense of better not messing with it. Claws, teeth and the entire body is like a a tank on paws. Even the police didn't believe me when I said I hit a badger. Needed to get a report for the insurance company. Impressive animal.
Odd that they wouldn't believe you. Game accidents with badgers aren't that unusual. The unusual thing is for the badger to instantly be killed in the accident, they usually manage to run away from the site of impact before even realizing they're hurt.
Seen badgers trotting up the road I live on , at night time. They seem to have a route between the two woods that border the local roads. Luckily, it’s very quiet around here at nighttime , which is probably why they’ve stayed around here. Just wish they’d leave my front lawn alone. Seems that like foxes they’ve worked out how to co-exist with humans and our towns.
I live in the South of Spain, way outside the village. We have badgers here. My littke dog and I nearly ran into one on an early morning walk, probably an old male, he was huge and gruffy. First 2 nano seconds I thought I saw a small bear😅 We all jumped, and then he ran pass by, up the mountain to his den.
I would love to do a video on moles but there isn't any footage available of them and although badgers are hard to film, they are a walk in the park compared to moles.
Quite sad. Despite living in the UK all my life, I've never seen a badger in-person. I've seen deer, hedgehogs and foxes out on my trails and would love to be able to see one at some point.
You definitely need to be in the right place at the right time for badgers. They are much shyer than a lot of other wildlife and have such great hearing and sense of smell that they usually disappear before they are seen. Good luck, I hope one day you manage to see one.
I love your channel. Garden birds helped me come out of a severe depression and PTSD back in 2011. It still raises its ugly head from time to time, however through this journey I've discovered nature is such a calming influence in life. We are so fortunate to have so many species of birds/ducks/pheasants (they eat us out of house and home !!!). My question is about our pheasants and their life ?. I can't find anything.
Cheers, I'm glad nature has helped you. Pheasants are on my list for future videos, I just need some more footage of them before I can get that together.
@@cyrus2728 So sorry for the delay in replying Cyrus. I have never heard of Indian Runner Ducks and have just looked them up online. I am not sure where you're from Cyrus, they don't seem to be native to the UK, however you can buy them in varying colours. I love ducks, and our newest recruit is Toni. Her Mother (Tessa) flew into our garden with her in tail !!!!. She has been feeding ever since, strangely we have never seen Tessa since.
@@ginnypurdey1 im in the uk.my daughter had a free photoshoot for her baby and the photographer brought 2 little ducklings from a farm on the way here for the shoot and she wasnt sure what to do with them after so we kept them. They are really funny to watch. Oh wow the mother just dropped her off and left, maybe she thought she was a stork.
More on badgers 🙏🏼 please. I have 3 badgers that visit my front garden most nights. I leave nuts and seedy bread out for them. I capture most of them on my ring system. Two let me watch from them from an open window. One is very skittish, as soon as the window opens he’s gone. 🦡🦡🦡 lol xx
I'm currently chilling at a spot I always go to in the woods and badgers live about 6 meters behind me. I see them quite often, they aren't that fussed by me being here coz I've come every day for years now. We get a deer that always walks through as well, even when I'm here. It's lovely. Randomly saw a pheasant here too, funny to see it run lol, Google it, hilarious. This is in West Yorkshire.
I really enjoy your videos. I found you from the river video and you've really made me look forward to being outdoors more and just watching even the smallest wildlife.
If I weren’t in such august, polite company here, I would add that perhaps culling people might be the answer. Just my most humble opinion, of course. Loved learning a lot about badgers.
I'm not sure where you're located, but in my many years living between London and Kent, I've never seen a badger. A few dead ones by the sides of roads. I'd love nothing more than to see a live one, just once in my lifetime...
I live in the leafy suburbs of NW London and they are here, in fact I have been able to hand feed them for over a dozen years. There are a few videos on my channel, but not good quality due to low light levels as they still prefer the shadows. Put peanuts out regularly and you never know what might find them. If you see one keep very still and quiet, they spook easily.
I've touched a lot of badgers by creeping up on them, their fur is quite rough, they jump and give me a look before running away at walk speed lol. Everyone says they're violent but I have no reason to believe that.
Unfortunately I've barely ever seen a badger (Alive that is). Believe I saw one for the first time ever two weeks back around midnight, but I can't be 100% sure. I am always trying to get badgers in the garden and I always put trail cameras out but no badgers yet. 😭😭
Magnificent animals beautiful to look at . I have one crossing in front of my house every night and give him ,her a tit bit . However no mention about the fact they carry spread TB tuberculosis to Cattle . A friend of mine near Devon had 265 Young growing Cattle for meat consumption and 130 milking cows . all Cattle in the UK and EU have to have Tuberculin tests . She had hers tested Week later ONE cow was positive with TB . Guess what she had to have every single cow on her land destroyed. Despite the fact her and her husband had Put wire all around the fields where the cattle were grazing sunk two half feet deep . But they managed to get in . There Is a real problem with Badgers in that area , The loss to them was immense . They still had to pay for the winter food for cattle and straw hay they need . They are now thinking of going into pigs , but the market is a nightmare when it comes to raising pigs for profit . Their farm has been in their family for just over 293 years . and they are terrified of being the couple who had to sell out . Of course we do not want badgers culled as they were but the government should be doing much much more to help farmers and do something about the problem of the Dreaded TB
The stork could then make his or her delivery to me where he or she reached Reno, Nevada where my family and I lived where the stork delivered those baby badgers like between Hufflepuff from Harry Potter and Gravity Badgers on the front porch at my house on 11030 Skylight Ct., so when I woke up in the middle of the night, I got off the bed, turned on the lights, went downstairs, got the front door, opened it, looked at the front porch, picked up the bag, opened it and found the baby badgers if I took them in the house and upstairs to my room and put them in the cradle in my room.
Badgers do not have TB I cared for badgers for thirty years. My last bottle fed cub was my 104th. We were also invited by the Council of Europe to go to the Bern Convention in Strasbourg concerning the calling of the badgers. There were 35 counties present and apart from the UK all the countries voted to stop the culling here. Most of them said the fault was in bad husbandry concerning the cattle. and nothing to do with any wildlife. Also, badgers are foragers and not hunters.
Don’t get me started on “The Cull” . Clean shots hardly ever happen , and a wounded badger is left to die in agony, often of septicaemia. Morally reprehensible. Scientifically dubious, unsustainable. Ineffective , fiscally inefficient and that’s just it’s good points
I caught a few of them on my trail cams but its always at nights. I always wonder how there are so many videos with them walking about in the day when they are nocturnal
Badgers do often venture out in the late evening and return to their setts after sunrise, especially in the summer when the night time isnt long enough for them to find all the food they need etc. I'm hoping to get some daylight footage myself later this year!
I only learned one thing about badgers in experience is they have very tough pelts I skinned them (already dead from roadkill) before and it’s tough skin led to me failing in many attempts to skin them
@@AShotOfWildlife that would be awesome. I’ve helped rehabilitate a number of nestlings in the past and have some footage of their release if you would like?
@@user-hf6vy8xc4i thanks, thats very kind. I will see what footage is available of them truly in the wild and then get back in touch if your footage would come in handy.
Badgers dig up graves and leave human remains around cemetery. Badgers are wreaking havoc in a medieval churchyard by digging up centuries-old graves and unearthing human bones, but locals are effectively powerless to stop them. Yes, they will stalk humans. They are aggressive animals but they don't go looking for trouble. “It's heartbreaking anyway, but to then find out there's badgers digging the place up is just too much for the mind.
Badgers do not stalk humans. There has never been an instance of a badger going out of its way to attack a person and the only reason they dig up graves is because they are digging a home.
@@AShotOfWildlife The badger is commonly referred to in Welsh as a mochyn daear ('earth pig'). The species likely evolved from the Chinese Meles thorali of the early Pleistocene. There are known cases of badgers burying family members after their death. The Celts had a number of superstitions when it came to badgers. Many ranchers tend to dislike badgers, because they dig holes that can cause injuries to cattle. Badgers are digging up the bones of dead people at a Birmingham cemetery. European badgers will eat hedgehogs if they’re hungry enough. Badgers also eat the carcasses of dead animals. Badgers were also eaten in Britain during World War II and the 1950s. Badgers are among the most important carnivores in the grassland ecosystem. They prey on mice, voles, gophers, rabbits and insects , badgers keep other populations in check. Most authors have assumed that badgers possess monochromatic vision, that is, they lack the ability to see colours. Thanks to Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, and their supporters like you, badgers have a wilder future. 🙏🙏🌻🌻💚💚
So I got up at 4am the morning and drove up the fields to drive cows in fr milking and seen something moving in the distance and at first I thought it was a cat but as I got closer I realised it was a badgar and rather than running away it move very slowly so I decided to watch some CZcams videos about them this guy knows his stuff
Really enjoyed this one Liam, I live very rural and often hope to see a badger but in seven years no luck yet. I’ll just keep checking the cctv 😂😂😂 But thank you so much loving this channel.
Hi Thankyou for your video ❤don’t read further if attached emotionally but…… …. does anyone know why a badger would quite literally charge at a moving car? I get so upset when I see them at the roadside but if this is normal somehow it’s perhaps not surprising. It was dark 4am early this month so perhaps mating season and hyped up? It was not cornered and could have fled in any direction, but no, like a bull with horns ran and turned into the car as if a bull with horns. I fear there may have be something wrong with it. Appologies please advise or ask for this to be removed and I will of course oblige I don’t want to upset anyone else 😢
Hmm, that is very interesting. Perhaps it had already been injured and wasnt thinking properly, maybe it had cubs nearby and was trying to defend them or it could have been something else. Thanks for sharing the story.
I once work in a hotel that was in countryside outside the hotel garden it was full of badgers. I was told always bring a stick in case I saw one them in the morning they would bite and wait till they heard your bone crack before they let go I saw plenty of them over the years did like them. Now I have very cute hedgehogs that come to my garden so I certainly Don't want to see them. Hedgehogs are much nicer
Did you ever actually see one or hear of one attempting to bite anyone? I've never heard of it except where someone tried to handle an injured one. Good work on the hedgehogs though, they need all the help they can get.
I am lucky enough to see these beautiful animals on a regular basis although they are rather keen on dining out on my chickens, hence why I now lock my chickens away 🦡
If you look at hedgehog numbers since the ban on hunting badgers in the uk you'll see a interesting trend, but I've done my bit over the years to reduce the number of badgers killing hedgehogs, by holding weekly seminars around our local badger sets to promote the adoption of veganism among their numbers.
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I live near a field and it's had Badgers in it for the 50 yrs I've lived her (since I was born) some yrs ago, or about the time of the badger culling, one of the sets had all the holes filled in with hard-core. I removed it all by hand which took me 3 hours and they seemed to be OK when I checked a few days later as you could see badgers activity around the set.
I believe the penalty for Interfering with a badger's sett, either deliberately or accidentally, is up to 6 months in prison, do you think the hard-core vandals knew that?
Oh and well done for doing that.👍
& Do you think it's Right For the holes to be filled..........I think millions will agree with me it is Not"
Stop f***** with God's creation & protecting the Evil doers....Fool😂
You Did a brilliant Job
Yeah we believe you bell ender
Thank you for saving them
Thank you, Liam. A few years ago, in the town centre of Somerset's county town about midnight, where I bide, an adult badger strolled past. We exchanged respectful greetings, before he (I believe, he), sniffed the air, then gave me a 'knowing' look, before crossing the usually (but then quiet) very busy main drag (A38), and then going upon his/her busy way.
A very soulful meeting, for me.
Stay free. Rab 💚 🌠
Cheers Rab. A great encounter and I'm sure it'll stay with you for many years to come.
what so Somerton? also that is very cool
We have several badgers visit every night. They like digestive biscuits, and peanuts. Always a privilege to see them turn up.
Disgusted by badger culling
Same here, have a set at the far end of they garden, not bad for the leafy suburbs of NW London. Mine get peanuts, a few digestives, various dog foods but they love small pieces of wholemeal peanut butter sandwiches ,which a couple of "my" badgers will gladly take from my hand, one will even stand with its front paws on my knee while doing so. The first one I fed would come up to me and prompt me to feed it by using his paw and that was about 15 years ago, I have been out every night since come rain or snow, except for four nights spent in hospital.
It's a privilege to have such creatures so close at hand.
Wildlife is precious. Long may the harmless Badger be with us. Not so their persecutors !
Harmless?
@@Bignfluffy Compered to Big Monkeys. Definitely !
@@Bignfluffy Yes they are, compared to people
@@aswclassicsiow8588 they can seriously hurt large dogs and kill cats occasionally😂 tf you mean harmless?
@@Bignfluffy will only attack if treatened, or they are attacked
I love the badger. What a terrific UK wild mammal. Saw one early morning in the park - thought it was a cat at first, but when it started running, with its funny podgy body and black and white stripes. Great.
They are fantastic. I'm going to try to spend more time in their presence in the coming months. Cheers
I knew of a badger set, we stumbled upon it by accident, it was just going dark and a family of about 5/6 came out of the set or sets. I was 22 and it was my first encounter of a badger in the wild.
That's great, do you still see them there?
It's spelt "sett"
I can tell you a fact about badgers: You can NEVER rule anything out with badgers! Their hair is banded black and white making them look grey. Also, their hair shaft is triangular, so a badger hair rolled between your fingers won’t roll smoothly. Only a select few know how to kill hedgehogs. Also, the cubs most likely have different fathers in the same litter as the sows have something called ‘delayed implantation.’
From an active badger rescuer and has been to several full w/E badger conferences. Oh, and imo, I believe cattle give tb to the badgers and other species in the first place (badgers love to dig under cow pats for grubs and worms). My theory isn’t supported by gov scientists however.
Hence the very sad badger culls in the uk
True. When did the government ever listen to reason or truth ??
Can't believe vets go along with the bs either............
We need to kill more badgers. Good for nothing except making shaving brushes. And where there is lots of badgers, there are no hedghogs, and all badgers will kill and eat the baby hoglets.
I think it was the Norman French that gave the name badger. To Dig?
I had a cousin who was a country vet and her husband was a farmer, they both were girmly of the conviction that it is cows who give tb to the badgers, and culling badgers is not the answer but a mere sop to farmers who should have better farming practice.
I have been all over Britain an it is rare but not impossible to see these beautiful creatures, i don't believe in the cull i personality think it's the farmers an wealthy landowners who don't want to pay for their cattle to be immunised, leave them alone. Great show again
Not rare at all to see a badger. I see them everyday but maybe I’m just lucky.
I think you are lucky. I spend a lot of time around badger setts and still only see them rarely. In some places they are quite used to people so I suppose if they are like that you might see them more often.
I see plenty of badgers
Do badgers have any animal predators? I saw one when I was a child. It was during the day in a forest on holiday in Wales. It was a lot bigger than I expected!
@@miapulchritudinous9791 no predators except man.
Badgers adore bird peanuts and fat balls and will break into sheds and dustbins to get them. They are also easily able to work out food recycling bins even with a weigh on the top. Simple push the bin over to get rid of the weight then move the handle and then simply get your nose in to enter the bin.
Never used to see badgers up here in Fife Scotland, but now l see them regularly.
The same thing has happened here. We didn't used to have many setts, but now there are quite a few.
I love badgers, only seen them a coupla times. I'm not completely convinced that the badger cull is based on good science.
All it does, apart from murdering lots of beautiful, innocent creatures, is make room for other badgers to move in to the culling area, achieving nothing useful. There has to be a more civilised way to deal with Bovine TB ,it's the 21st century not the 19th after all.
It wasn't, they may spread it but only because of bad farming practice that gave it to them to spread.
@@chrisstephens6673 very true,
@@chrisstephens6673what are the bad practices?
@@alastairatcheson1407 spreading infected manure?
Beautiful creatures, I love searching for setts and have discovered a few over the years, which I keep an eye on to make sure they stay safe. 🥰
I love your channel! It’s so informative! Thank you 🙏
Thank you. I have lots more videos lined up so stay tuned :)
Very interesting. On Saturday I was checking the trail cam I have set up at the bottom of my garden and found footage of a baby badger snooping about, which was nice.
That was very interesting, didn't know they catch and eat hedgehogs. ..wow....lol...had a badger in my garden last year, sniffing around some plant pots, amazing to see. Thanks for your work.
Thank you. Everything has its predators, if there's enough habitat then it's not a problem, they can sustain their numbers even with predators.
Incredible species. Pure gift to Britain
I do love badgers and still hope to one day see them in the wild....
I used to live in Northampton and I came a couple of badgers while walking back to my university campus while absolutely hammered. The size of these guys is fairly impressive although I don't understand why so many people are scared of them
Very strong jaws and large teeth. And violent if cornered.
"Rather insignificant tail" UNPROVOKED!
But funny, you have to admit.
Tail shaming lol,its not as insignificant as our human ones.
Another great video very informative. I’ve never seen a badger, shame they eat hedgehogs though 😔
Cheers. Them eating hedgehogs wouldn't cause an issue if there was plenty of good habitat for the hedgehogs to sustain healthy numbers.
That said, there are some signs that hedgehogs may be recovering in numbers in a few places so fingers crossed.
@@AShotOfWildlife I think you need to stop lying dude. They are dangerous animals that challenge and charge at you. Their numbers are getting out of hand now. We are not used to them and they are not used to us. It’s an issue.
My family were camping on shell island. A badger stolen all the food from the cool box in the awning. U could see the trail of food the next morning near the holes. Big Bertie and co had a full feast that evening.
Have loads of Badger runs were I live, really beautiful animals to watch I love all wild life and respect it all as it was there land before we took it over
We used to see Momma badger pass our garden most nights… then didn’t see her for a while and I was getting worried about her.. then she popped up with her baby!!! Unfortunately, a week or so later there was a dead badger in the graveyard… no way was it hit by a car as the road isn’t near the church yard and I think some scuzz bag is poisoning them!!! Makes me so angry! We saw the youngster alone and it was probably looking for mum and if it followed her scent would have found her body in the graveyard and that thought breaks my heart 😢
That's a shame. Hopefully the youngster was old enough to fend for itself and survived.
I think something nefarious may be happening at my local sett too, no dead animals but the badgers seem to have all gone in tge last 6 months.
@@AShotOfWildlife So sad! We should be protecting our badgers, not culling them. I’m not a great fan of farmers… or Tories and it seems they are the two groups that seem to particularly hate these beautiful beasts 😢
@@user-hx5xq6tl9f they ARE protected
About 15 years ago I had a car accident with a badger. At first I did not know what I hit till I went a few meters back and saw it was a badger. Was like hitting a speed bump at 100kmh. I went back to my car and got the wrench for changing the tires, just in case. When I came close to the badger I noticed he was dead. Just to look at it give you a sense of better not messing with it. Claws, teeth and the entire body is like a a tank on paws. Even the police didn't believe me when I said I hit a badger. Needed to get a report for the insurance company. Impressive animal.
Odd that they wouldn't believe you. Game accidents with badgers aren't that unusual. The unusual thing is for the badger to instantly be killed in the accident, they usually manage to run away from the site of impact before even realizing they're hurt.
Seen badgers trotting up the road I live on , at night time. They seem to have a route between the two woods that border the local roads. Luckily, it’s very quiet around here at nighttime , which is probably why they’ve stayed around here. Just wish they’d leave my front lawn alone.
Seems that like foxes they’ve worked out how to co-exist with humans and our towns.
I live in the South of Spain, way outside the village. We have badgers here. My littke dog and I nearly ran into one on an early morning walk, probably an old male, he was huge and gruffy. First 2 nano seconds I thought I saw a small bear😅 We all jumped, and then he ran pass by, up the mountain to his den.
Badgers are carnivorans that belong to the family Melidae, there are over fifteen extant species within seven genera and four subfamilies, badgers are found only in Eurasia, Africa, and North America, badgers range in size from the formosan ferret badger to the european badger
Taxonomy:
• Family: Melidae (Badgers)
•• Subfamily: Mellivorinae (Short-Faced Badgers)
••• Genus: Mellivora (Honey Badger Lineage)
•••• Species: Mellivora capensis (Honey Badger)
•• Subfamily: Helictidinae (Ferret Badgers)
••• Genus: Melogale (North Asian Ferret Badgers)
•••• Species: Melogale moschata (Chinese Ferret Badger)
•••• Species: Melogale subaurantiaca (Formosan Ferret Badger)
••• Genus: Helictis (Indochinese Ferret Badgers)
•••• Species: Helictis personata (Burmese Ferret Badger)
•••• Species: Helictis cucphuongensis (Vietnamese Ferret Badger)
••• Genus: Bassaritaxus (Indonesian Ferret Badgers)
•••• Species: Bassaritaxus everetti (Bornean Ferret Badger)
•••• Species: Bassaritaxus orientalis (Javan Ferret Badger)
•• Subfamily: Melinae (Old World Badgers)
••• Genus: Arctonyx (Hog Badgers)
•••• Species: Arctonyx collaris (Greater Hog Badger)
•••• Species: Arctonyx albogularis (Northern Hog Badger)
•••• Species: Arctonyx hoevenii (Sumatran Hog Badger)
••• Genus: Meles (Eurasian Badgers)
•••• Species: Meles meles (European Badger)
•••• Species: Meles canescens (Caucasian Badger)
•••• Species: Meles leucurus (Asiatic Badger)
•••• Species: Meles anakuma (Japanese Badger)
•• Subfamily: Taxideinae (New World Badgers)
••• Genus: Taxidea (American Badger Lineage)
•••• Species: Taxidea taxus (American Badger)
I have only caught a glimpse of a badger once. Similarly I've only seen a mole once, have you thought of doing a video on them?
I would love to do a video on moles but there isn't any footage available of them and although badgers are hard to film, they are a walk in the park compared to moles.
@@AShotOfWildlife that makes sense they are elusive little creatures
@@AShotOfWildlife Thank you, ASOW. Stay free. Rab 😎 🍻
I caught a mole summer before last, and its fur was the softest thing I've ever felt.
Quite sad. Despite living in the UK all my life, I've never seen a badger in-person. I've seen deer, hedgehogs and foxes out on my trails and would love to be able to see one at some point.
You definitely need to be in the right place at the right time for badgers. They are much shyer than a lot of other wildlife and have such great hearing and sense of smell that they usually disappear before they are seen. Good luck, I hope one day you manage to see one.
This Is so good Great video Bud!
Thank you.
I love your channel. Garden birds helped me come out of a severe depression and PTSD back in 2011. It still raises its ugly head from time to time, however through this journey I've discovered nature is such a calming influence in life.
We are so fortunate to have so many species of birds/ducks/pheasants (they eat us out of house and home !!!). My question is about our pheasants and their life ?. I can't find anything.
Cheers, I'm glad nature has helped you. Pheasants are on my list for future videos, I just need some more footage of them before I can get that together.
@@AShotOfWildlife Fantastic. During the Winter months into early Spring they come to feed and off they go ..... somewhere ???.
If you have the room.indian runner ducks are very relaxing and amusing to watch and you get free eggs.
@@cyrus2728 So sorry for the delay in replying Cyrus. I have never heard of Indian Runner Ducks and have just looked them up online. I am not sure where you're from Cyrus, they don't seem to be native to the UK, however you can buy them in varying colours.
I love ducks, and our newest recruit is Toni. Her Mother (Tessa) flew into our garden with her in tail !!!!. She has been feeding ever since, strangely we have never seen Tessa since.
@@ginnypurdey1 im in the uk.my daughter had a free photoshoot for her baby and the photographer brought 2 little ducklings from a farm on the way here for the shoot and she wasnt sure what to do with them after so we kept them. They are really funny to watch. Oh wow the mother just dropped her off and left, maybe she thought she was a stork.
More on badgers 🙏🏼 please. I have 3 badgers that visit my front garden most nights. I leave nuts and seedy bread out for them. I capture most of them on my ring system. Two let me watch from them from an open window. One is very skittish, as soon as the window opens he’s gone. 🦡🦡🦡 lol xx
I'm currently chilling at a spot I always go to in the woods and badgers live about 6 meters behind me. I see them quite often, they aren't that fussed by me being here coz I've come every day for years now. We get a deer that always walks through as well, even when I'm here. It's lovely. Randomly saw a pheasant here too, funny to see it run lol, Google it, hilarious. This is in West Yorkshire.
As a trucker it breaks my heart how many i see killed by vehicles.
I really enjoy your videos. I found you from the river video and you've really made me look forward to being outdoors more and just watching even the smallest wildlife.
Thank you. I'm so glad my videos have helped encourage you to enjoy the outdoors more.
Thanks.
Cheers.
Badgers are such wonderful and fascinating creatures. I have unfortunately never seen one. Thanks for this interesting video Liam.
They should farm less cattle rather than cull badgers…
Are you a vegetarian.
If I weren’t in such august, polite company here, I would add that perhaps culling people might be the answer. Just my most humble opinion, of course. Loved learning a lot about badgers.
As a dairy farmer, why?
Many thanks to you Liam and your team
Thanks John!
I hope to see them around when I eventually move to Oxfordshire.
I think they're fairly common that way, so good luck!
Thank you very much😊
Very pretty but out of favour with me as they dig up my vegetables. I now have to grow everything under nets!
I'm not sure where you're located, but in my many years living between London and Kent, I've never seen a badger. A few dead ones by the sides of roads. I'd love nothing more than to see a live one, just once in my lifetime...
I live in the leafy suburbs of NW London and they are here, in fact I have been able to hand feed them for over a dozen years. There are a few videos on my channel, but not good quality due to low light levels as they still prefer the shadows. Put peanuts out regularly and you never know what might find them. If you see one keep very still and quiet, they spook easily.
Hi! Do you think it would be worth putting trail cameras in my garden every night. I always give up after a while. Nothing ever eats the peanuts 😔
Go to quiet woodland, find a set, wait til dark. Drink tea and smoke herb with the Badgers.
Badgers are awesome I've never seen one in real life yet they must be hard to come across.
Great video Liam 😁
One dug up a bumble bee nest in my garden, bad news or the bees but at least it means the local badger population is healthy.
I've touched a lot of badgers by creeping up on them, their fur is quite rough, they jump and give me a look before running away at walk speed lol. Everyone says they're violent but I have no reason to believe that.
Unfortunately I've barely ever seen a badger (Alive that is). Believe I saw one for the first time ever two weeks back around midnight, but I can't be 100% sure. I am always trying to get badgers in the garden and I always put trail cameras out but no badgers yet. 😭😭
Magnificent animals beautiful to look at . I have one crossing in front of my house every night and give him ,her a tit bit .
However no mention about the fact they carry spread TB tuberculosis to Cattle .
A friend of mine near Devon had 265 Young growing Cattle for meat consumption and 130 milking cows .
all Cattle in the UK and EU have to have Tuberculin tests . She had hers tested Week later ONE cow was positive with TB . Guess what she had to have every single cow on her land destroyed.
Despite the fact her and her husband had Put wire all around the fields where the cattle were grazing sunk two half feet deep .
But they managed to get in .
There Is a real problem with Badgers in that area ,
The loss to them was immense . They still had to pay for the winter food for cattle and straw hay they need .
They are now thinking of going into pigs , but the market is a nightmare when it comes to raising pigs for profit .
Their farm has been in their family for just over 293 years . and they are terrified of being the couple who had to sell out .
Of course we do not want badgers culled as they were but the government should be doing much much more to help farmers and do something about the problem of the Dreaded TB
I love badgers ❤️
Another excellent video. Love this channel!
Love your videos! Thank you for sharing them with us 🤗
Someone may be replacing David Attenborough . I could listen to this man talk for hours on wildlife!
My family name is after badgers! Small and volatile lol
Is it apt?
Thanks for posting! ♥️👍
The stork could then make his or her delivery to me where he or she reached Reno, Nevada where my family and I lived where the stork delivered those baby badgers like between Hufflepuff from Harry Potter and Gravity Badgers on the front porch at my house on 11030 Skylight Ct., so when I woke up in the middle of the night, I got off the bed, turned on the lights, went downstairs, got the front door, opened it, looked at the front porch, picked up the bag, opened it and found the baby badgers if I took them in the house and upstairs to my room and put them in the cradle in my room.
Badgers do not have TB I cared for badgers for thirty years. My last bottle fed cub was my 104th. We were also invited by the Council of Europe to go to the Bern Convention in Strasbourg concerning the calling of the badgers. There were 35 counties present and apart from the UK all the countries voted to stop the culling here. Most of them said the fault was in bad husbandry concerning the cattle. and nothing to do with any wildlife. Also, badgers are foragers and not hunters.
Awesome.
Absolutely nothing compares to wild camping, and hearing their screams outside your tent!
I didn't hear any more of the once reported news that badgers were to be given chocolate, dosed with innoculation meds, to alleviate the TB issue.
Thanks for sharing Liam! Interesting as always. Have a good day my friend! // Bertil.
very interesting, thanks, 👍🙋
Don’t get me started on “The Cull” . Clean shots hardly ever happen , and a wounded badger is left to die in agony, often of septicaemia. Morally reprehensible. Scientifically dubious, unsustainable. Ineffective , fiscally inefficient and that’s just it’s good points
Badger are the best and deserve to be free!
As always thanks for the great informative video, I always lean somthing new from you and always a joy to watch .
I caught a few of them on my trail cams but its always at nights. I always wonder how there are so many videos with them walking about in the day when they are nocturnal
Badgers do often venture out in the late evening and return to their setts after sunrise, especially in the summer when the night time isnt long enough for them to find all the food they need etc. I'm hoping to get some daylight footage myself later this year!
@@AShotOfWildlife ok mate, thanks for replying
Sweet
Thanks liam great content
I only learned one thing about badgers in experience is they have very tough pelts
I skinned them (already dead from roadkill) before and it’s tough skin led to me failing in many attempts to skin them
Lovely footage, really nice to see them dootering about and acting as if noones watching.
Would love to see a goldfinch video too 👌
They're on my list for future videos. I'm not sure how much footage is available of their nests though so I will have to see. Cheers
@@AShotOfWildlife that would be awesome. I’ve helped rehabilitate a number of nestlings in the past and have some footage of their release if you would like?
@@user-hf6vy8xc4i thanks, thats very kind. I will see what footage is available of them truly in the wild and then get back in touch if your footage would come in handy.
BADgers are good for other mammal or insect who use their abandoned tunnel as house
I like badgers and unfortunately they do spread Bovine TB.
Badgers dig up graves and leave human remains around cemetery. Badgers are wreaking havoc in a medieval churchyard by digging up centuries-old graves and unearthing human bones, but locals are effectively powerless to stop them. Yes, they will stalk humans. They are aggressive animals but they don't go looking for trouble. “It's heartbreaking anyway, but to then find out there's badgers digging the place up is just too much for the mind.
Badgers do not stalk humans. There has never been an instance of a badger going out of its way to attack a person and the only reason they dig up graves is because they are digging a home.
@@AShotOfWildlife The badger is commonly referred to in Welsh as a mochyn daear ('earth pig'). The species likely evolved from the Chinese Meles thorali of the early Pleistocene. There are known cases of badgers burying family members after their death. The Celts had a number of superstitions when it came to badgers. Many ranchers tend to dislike badgers, because they dig holes that can cause injuries to cattle. Badgers are digging up the bones of dead people at a Birmingham cemetery. European badgers will eat hedgehogs if they’re hungry enough. Badgers also eat the carcasses of dead animals. Badgers were also eaten in Britain during World War II and the 1950s. Badgers are among the most important carnivores in the grassland ecosystem. They prey on mice, voles, gophers, rabbits and insects , badgers keep other populations in check. Most authors have assumed that badgers possess monochromatic vision, that is, they lack the ability to see colours. Thanks to Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, and their supporters like you, badgers have a wilder future. 🙏🙏🌻🌻💚💚
@@PoisonelleMisty4311 wrong wrong and wrong
Amazing how they survived here and beavers didn’t.
However, that print you showed is identical to the print I found In the front garden three months back. It had very long claws. I wonder?
Hmm, perhaps it was one. You'll have to keep checking with the camera traps and keep your fingers crossed. Let me know if you have any luck
So I got up at 4am the morning and drove up the fields to drive cows in fr milking and seen something moving in the distance and at first I thought it was a cat but as I got closer I realised it was a badgar and rather than running away it move very slowly so I decided to watch some CZcams videos about them this guy knows his stuff
I was walking from school one day and saw a dead badger, i was sad but happy that i got to see a badger upclose, but sad it wasnt alive
Really enjoyed this one Liam, I live very rural and often hope to see a badger but in seven years no luck yet. I’ll just keep checking the cctv 😂😂😂
But thank you so much loving this channel.
Another great and informative video, Liam! 👍 I didn't know that Badgers eat Hedgehogs... 🦡 🦔
this actually helped me with my hw, thanks!
Great video. Keep them coming.
Hi Thankyou for your video ❤don’t read further if attached emotionally but……
…. does anyone know why a badger would quite literally charge at a moving car? I get so upset when I see them at the roadside but if this is normal somehow it’s perhaps not surprising. It was dark 4am early this month so perhaps mating season and hyped up? It was not cornered and could have fled in any direction, but no, like a bull with horns ran and turned into the car as if a bull with horns. I fear there may have be something wrong with it. Appologies please advise or ask for this to be removed and I will of course oblige I don’t want to upset anyone else 😢
Hmm, that is very interesting. Perhaps it had already been injured and wasnt thinking properly, maybe it had cubs nearby and was trying to defend them or it could have been something else. Thanks for sharing the story.
Great video!
Thank you!
I once work in a hotel that was in countryside outside the hotel garden it was full of badgers. I was told always bring a stick in case I saw one them in the morning they would bite and wait till they heard your bone crack before they let go I saw plenty of them over the years did like them. Now I have very cute hedgehogs that come to my garden so I certainly Don't want to see them. Hedgehogs are much nicer
Did you ever actually see one or hear of one attempting to bite anyone? I've never heard of it except where someone tried to handle an injured one. Good work on the hedgehogs though, they need all the help they can get.
they are always badgering the witness
Mushroom, mushroom!
I wondered if anyone would say this lol
@@AShotOfWildlife It just *needed* to be done! Haha! You should've slipped some subtle mushrooms or snakes in!
2:20 That rabbit barely escaped death
I don't know, I think the rabbit would've outrank it easily. I don't know how often they would try to catch a healthy rabbit to be honest.
4:49
Those beautiful stripes!🦓
I have a pair that visit for cat biscuits 🍪
Nice vid. Are they related to wolverines or honey badgers? And do they share the same tenacious personality trait?
Yes badgers are related to wolverines
Sadly the only badgers I’ve seen have been 'road kill', and that’s in different areas than Central Lancs where I live.
If you give them a Honney stone, they evolve into...
I am lucky enough to see these beautiful animals on a regular basis although they are rather keen on dining out on my chickens, hence why I now lock my chickens away 🦡
Let me tell you something about Badgers. An old badger will kill a small lamb, bet you don’t know that.(retired Exmoor sheep farmer)
Man slaughters thousands of lambs every year. Me thinks we should to cull the farmers instead.
First!
Lol. Classic
It's a shame there aren't any larger predators to control their numbers
If you look at hedgehog numbers since the ban on hunting badgers in the uk you'll see a interesting trend, but I've done my bit over the years to reduce the number of badgers killing hedgehogs, by holding weekly seminars around our local badger sets to promote the adoption of veganism among their numbers.
I miss Breaking Bad 😢
Hufflepuff brought me here.