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To think this is amazing and I am very lucky

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SiamoNellaMerda · 29/12/2011 22:44

To have not one but two badgers in my back garden, on the patio, right now - eating the peanuts that the birds didn't have this afternoon. They are so so beautiful!

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MotherPanda · 29/12/2011 22:45

oh how lovely - enjoy them.

RagamuffinAndFidget · 29/12/2011 22:46

YANBU. I have never seen a live badger. Only squished or on't telly.

CocktailQueen · 29/12/2011 22:46

We have two too! Haven't seen them for a wee while though, and I was wondering if they hibernated! Obviously not with you though :) But we have had lots of family staying all over Xmas so maybe the noise has put them off!! Xmas Grin We're in Beds - where are you?

2kidsintow · 29/12/2011 22:49

Wow. That's great.

A couple of years ago there was heavy snow and my DD called me very late at night (just got in after a New Year party) to tell me there was something jumping in the field at the bottom of the garden. I told her it was probably just cats, but then saw that it was fox cubs jumping around and playing. We could only see them as they were silhouetted against the snow. I'm sure they are still there, but haven't seen them since as they are too hard to see.

V jealous here. Grin

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SiamoNellaMerda · 29/12/2011 22:49

Brighton - outskirts of the city and opposite a huge downland park so I guess that's where they've come from. Used to having foxes, fieldmice, squirrels etc but the badgers are a very recent arrival.

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randommoment · 29/12/2011 22:50

Cool!

ChippingInLovesChristmasLights · 29/12/2011 22:50

Oh how lovely, I'm Envy

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SiamoNellaMerda · 29/12/2011 22:50

How lovely to see the fox cubs playing - I often visit a friend who has a foxy family and the cubs are a joy to watch!

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Hassled · 29/12/2011 22:50

I've never seen a badger either - am very jealous :)

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SiamoNellaMerda · 29/12/2011 22:51

Funny thing is they don't seem to mind us standing at the French windows gawping at them - if we did that when the fox was visiting he'd be off in a dead panic but these two just don't care! Shame it's not really possible to photograph them

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CarolCervix · 29/12/2011 22:52

cool.

i hope they don't undermine your house foundations. is it a new-build?

naturalbaby · 29/12/2011 22:52

amazing! have just discovered a badger set at my parents new place so may have to put in an all nighter with the dc's.

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SiamoNellaMerda · 29/12/2011 22:53

Badgers eat your foundations? Shock

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SiamoNellaMerda · 29/12/2011 22:54

naturalbaby - get the peanuts out - they bloody love them! And honey too - according to a couple of websites I've just been looking at.

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AgentZigzag · 29/12/2011 22:54

My parents house was on a badgers route and mum used to give them bread and dripping Grin

They'd come right up and look at us through the window in the back door, bloody lovely.

CarolCervix · 29/12/2011 22:54

they dig.

FreudianSlipper · 29/12/2011 22:55

i used to see them at an old boyfriends house i would watch them for hours. one ran passed me in the drive and straight into a wall :(

i was once woken in the night by what i thought was a fox slowing killing a bird, it went on for hours but it was the badgers playing hide the sausage

BalloonTwister · 29/12/2011 22:55

Aw thats so lovely. I don't want to put you on downer OP, but please don't be too specific about where you've seen them...I once told a pub full of people that I'd seen badgers playing in the field next door and a few days some wicked evil bastards with dogs dug them out and killed them. I still get upset about it all these years later! :(

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 29/12/2011 22:56

Yes, my parents loved the badgers they had in their garden.

Until the garden started to subside and they had to spend thousands to dig up their lovely lawn and have the set fenced in and one way gates put on the tunnels.

Don't feed them, you may regret it.

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SiamoNellaMerda · 29/12/2011 22:59

Noted balloon but there's lots and lots of bits of this town on the edge of downland. I take your point though and may anyone who does that rot in a vat of boiling goat's piss for all eternity!

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FreudianSlipper · 29/12/2011 23:01

that is horrible balloon :(

JinglePosyPerkin · 29/12/2011 23:03

They are lovely to see OP, but not so lovely when they go underneath your static caravan & tear out your insulation causing £1000 worth of damage which is not covered by your insurance Sad. Assuming you have no static caravan in your garden though, enjoy watching them Smile.

TheresASpareChairOverThere · 29/12/2011 23:03

That is lucky. My 8yo saw a badger a few years back and said, so reverently, 'That is the first badger of my life'.

I have never seen even one!

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SiamoNellaMerda · 29/12/2011 23:04

Grin - no, no caravan and no actual lawn either so with any luck they're living next door and just coming here for a snack! Sorry about your caravan though...... Sad

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Selks · 29/12/2011 23:08

Lucky you to see badgers in your garden! I'm jealous!

Re your house foundations - no need to worry at all Grin...the badgers will have an established set somewhere quiet a bit of a distance away. Badgers do not make sets right next to houses. There have been no recorded cases of badgers undermining foundations that I am aware of