After the storms the badger returns

After a week of severe weather in which all the animals failed to turn up for meal times the skies cleared and the evenings were mild and quiet the badger arrived and tucked in to a good meal. The storms stopped me from doing any photography, the wind turned our garden upside down.

I am not sure whether this one is male or female. It looks pregnant to me. Time will tell.

These were taken while I was asleep so I am not sure whether its the same animal. I will just have to wait and see.

Its a healthy animal except for a few what appears to be battle scars around its tail which can be clearly seen in the first picture.
 

Suprise suprise!

I had a good night with the animals yesterday. I managed to set the IR camera up perfectly and there was no rain or frost to mess up the lenses. The badger settled down to feed and I got these two pictures.

He moved into the best spot of all right infront of the lens.

While I was posting this blog tonight I heard a scuffling outside my room window. I drew the curtains slowly and to my amazement there was the badger sitting there looking at me. I was able to get a camera quickly and get this shot before he wandered off. Sorry about the quality but I never had time to focus before the security light went out.
 

Junior and friend

Junior arrived by himself , had a look round, had a bite to eat and when his friend turned up a few minutes later they decided to have a little game

They played for about ten minutes then Junior found some more food and decided that was more important and that was the end of that.

He then tucked into the food and left his friend to watch. I am longing to know the sex of his friend. If its a female I could end up with a garden full of foxes.

 

Badger and fox

I have never seen two wild animals of different species get on so well together. These two are both regular visitors to my garden but never together. Last night that all changed the badger was feeding when the fox strolled in and nothing happened.

There was a little sideways glance from the fox and they both carried on and enjoyed their neal. They cleared up all the biscuits and went quietly off in different directions. This is a first time for me to witness such an event.