Badger in the garden.

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I was having a few beers late last night when I heard a persistent noise outside, like something or someone trying to open or get into something. Convinced it was a burglar having a go at something - possibly my sheds - I went quietly around the ground floor rooms in the dark, to see if I could see anything out of the windows, but no joy.

To cut a long story short, I ended up charging out of the kitchen into my back yard only to be faced with a very surprised badger! I don't know who moved quickest after that - I ran back into the house and the badger went nuts trying to get away.

All in all it was pretty cool experience. I quite like badgers and I've never met one before, well not that close anyway.

Anyone else had any similar experiences?
 
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I have 2 badger runs on my drive and have had to stamp on my brakes many times over the years to avoid a big lump of badger deciding to cross my driveway.

They also eat hedgehogs :(
 
I had one run past me in the middle of the road one evening. I thought it was a hedgehog at first but then realised it was too large. It was a quick thing too.
 
Yadda said:
I was having a few beers late last night when I heard a persistent noise outside, like something or someone trying to open or get into something. Convinced it was a burglar having a go at something - possibly my sheds - I went quietly around the ground floor rooms in the dark, to see if I could see anything out of the windows, but no joy.

To cut a long story short, I ended up charging out of the kitchen into my back yard only to be faced with a very surprised badger! I don't know who moved quickest after that - I ran back into the house and the badger went nuts trying to get away.

All in all it was pretty cool experience. I quite like badgers and I've never met one before, well not that close anyway.

Anyone else had any similar experiences?
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We have/had them in the garden quite frequently as I was putting peanuts and seed out for the birds.

I discovered that we'd got them when I went out the back door at about 2am to get some model making stuff from the garage and nearly stepped on one.
It sort of gave me a funny look before it lumbered off, once I had landed I sort of moved fairly fast myself.

After that I took to checking out the window before going outside in the evening and realised we were getting them most nights, we had at least two different ones (as we saw two at once), but I think it may have been as many as 4, as there was a smaller one, one with some sort of scar over one eye (the fur was a different colour like it had regrown after an injury), and one that was large and without the odd fur.

The downside of badgers is that they apparently like to eat hedgehogs, which explains the complete but empty spiney skin of a hedgehog I've found a couple of times (they look just like a hedgehog that is lying flat, until you get close and turn them over with a spade).


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HazardO said:
I had a cat that would chase muntjack deer, but no badgers IIRC.
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We had a great laugh at one of the neighbours cats trying to stalk a muntjack that was at least 2 or 3 times it's size :)

Over the last few weeks of hot weather there has been a fox that's been resting in the garden every morning about 5am, and some of the neighbours cats seem to like curling up on our lawn so at times there has been the fox curled up one side of the lawn and a couple of cats on the other side.
 
Interesting to hear other's encounters. I always thought it was quite rare to come across them these days, especially around houses. Have they caused problems for any of you, such as damage to property or garden, pets etc?

Ayahuasca said:
Where’s the pics :mad:
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Neither Mr Badger nor I were in the mood for pictures. :D Plus, this is all I was carrying and neither take photos.

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We used to have a badger come into our garden every night until a few years ago when it just stopped coming around. It didn't really bother about humans as we could sit in the back doorway watching it and even came up to the steps to sniff us a few times. These days we have several hedeghogs visiting us every night. There are loads of them around here and they are huge!! We also regularly have deer in the field at the bottom of our garden especially if it's a cold hard winter when they come down off the hills. We have Pheasants coming into the garden looking for bird food and last year we had a pair of ducks that came to visit every day. After a few days they would feed from our hands which was great. We have loads of birds around here such as Buzzards, Owls, Woodpeckers (heard but not seen) and a particularly vicious Sparrowhawk who doesn't care where it brings it's victim down. The lunatic nearly took my head off last week bringing down a woodpigeon while I was doing some gardening. It took a jackdaw (it's not fussy who it's victims are) down just as we were leaving the house in our car last week as well. If it's going to stick around I will have to get a hard hat for when I go outside. Unfortunately someone has moved into the converted steading across from us and the first thing the morons did was cut down the small wood (pine trees) that was on their boundary and the number of birds around here has dropped sharply.
 
pastymuncher said:
We used to have a badger come into our garden every night until a few years ago when it just stopped coming around. It didn't really bother about humans as we could sit in the back doorway watching it and even came up to the steps to sniff us a few times. These days we have several hedeghogs visiting us every night. There are loads of them around here and they are huge!! We also regularly have deer in the field at the bottom of our garden especially if it's a cold hard winter when they come down off the hills. We have Pheasants coming into the garden looking for bird food and last year we had a pair of ducks that came to visit every day. After a few days they would feed from our hands which was great. We have loads of birds around here such as Buzzards, Owls, Woodpeckers (heard but not seen) and a particularly vicious Sparrowhawk who doesn't care where it brings it's victim down. The lunatic nearly took my head off last week bringing down a woodpigeon while I was doing some gardening. It took a jackdaw (it's not fussy who it's victims are) down just as we were leaving the house in our car last week as well. If it's going to stick around I will have to get a hard hat for when I go outside. Unfortunately someone has moved into the converted steading across from us and the first thing the morons did was cut down the small wood (pine trees) that was on their boundary and the number of birds around here has dropped sharply.
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Nice, although it's a shame your neighbour cut those trees down, as you say.

There's a wood not far from me and I hear a woodpecker sometimes when I go there for a stroll. I stumbled across a Sparrowhawk once, too. It had just hit a pigeon and was in the process of pinning it to the ground when I turned up and inadvertantly frightened it away. The pigeon was in quite a bad way - the hawk had really had a go at one of its wings - and it couldn't fly. Anyway, being a soppy git I picked it up and took it home and kept it fed and watered in the shed. After a week or so it was well enough to fly again and off it went. :)
 
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