To think this is amazing and I am very lucky

[SiamoNellaMerda]

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!

That's good to know selks because tbh the badgers would win over the foundations any day of the week! I can't imagine chasing them away!

Well, the badgers in my parents garden were living right next to a well used road and had tunnelled to within 3 ft of the shed, workshop and garage. The garden was sinking and the badgers were still digging - the sett had enlarged considerably in the time my parents were feeding them (peanut butter sandwiches).

You are lucky! Enjoy

Peanut butter sandwiches you say?

A badger battered his way through my garden fence and ate my hedgehog which I had been feeding :(

They might give you tb. This could be a rumour.

Oh that's not good. That's one thing I've never had here is a hedgehog.

GeraldineHoHoHobergine Thu 29-Dec-11 23:21:59

They might give you tb. This could be a rumour.

I'm only looking at them - no plans to snog one!

Hehehe fair point well made :)

A good few years ago I was working for Kew Gardens "Country Estate" and discovered they run Badger Evenings. They have a hide set up near the badger sett and you spend an evening sat in there watching them. The evenings are so popular, they don't even need to advertise them and are booked up a year in advance. Happened to be in the office one morning when someone phoned to cancel their place that evening. Guess who managed to blag their way on to it . Spent 4 hours freezing my butt off in a cramped hut with a sweaty bloke pushed up against me, while my buttocks went to sleep, watching up to 10 badgers (including babies) frolic less than 2 meters away from me.

It was THE most amazing experience of my life. Enjoy it Siamo

I've never seen a badger either!

I used to think badgers were ever so lovely too, until they set up home at the bottom of the garden. Now the field is covered in badger shit, which is disgusting in a way foxes haven't even thought off, and the dogs love rolling in it. I clear it up by the bucket full. Bleurghhhh

They do make a nice whistling noise though, which is quite sweet (and winds the dogs up a treat).

The badgers near here have worked out how to open the food waste bins, something the foxes haven't (fortunately they live a street or two away, unlike the foxes who have tried to dig a den in our garden and camped in the garage). Talk to your local wildlife trust if you have any concerns, want any advice.