Out of focus, under exposed, but my shot of the day…

By Words | Published June 19, 2009

My first badger

Edit: here's the trailcam footage of when I disturbed the badger by going outside. I'd seen the infrared lights but wasn't able to see what had triggered it until I got quite close.


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Camera note: taken with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens

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15 Comments

  1. gdare June 19, 2009 at 5:06 am #

    I was looking at that device and thought: This couldn`t be a badger 😆 Then I saw it in shadow 🙂
    It is morning and I am still drinking my first coffee 😛

  2. Words June 19, 2009 at 7:06 am #

    Yes it's there in the background. The trail cam picked up the moment it saw me and ran to the back of the garden. They are surprisingly fast! It did come back later so is obviously not too worried by being disturbed.

  3. SittingFox June 19, 2009 at 7:06 pm #

    :hat: Congratulations! Terribly hard creatures to get on camera!

    I wonder if you just have the one badger, or your trail cam has actually been picking up various members of the same sett :confused:

  4. Words June 20, 2009 at 9:06 am #

    Adele, good question about the badger(s). It's difficult to tell whether it's one or more given the low quality of the footage. I'll have to take a close look to see if I can pick out any differences in features.

  5. Words June 20, 2009 at 10:06 am #

    Thanks. I'll check it out

  6. SittingFox June 20, 2009 at 10:06 am #

    You may also want to check their tail shape. Female badgers have much narrower tails than the boars.

  7. SittingFox June 20, 2009 at 11:06 am #

    Oops, sorry, according to this it's actually the other way around :doh:

  8. Words June 20, 2009 at 1:06 pm #

    Could be a male then. That looks like a narrow tail to me on the video.

  9. Ukwildlife June 20, 2009 at 9:06 pm #

    Hoorah! well done. I still havent SEEN a wild badger

  10. Words June 20, 2009 at 9:06 pm #

    Thanks Neil. I've now had a few garden encounters but they continue to spook the camera. This time I was just set up all wrong for the shot.

  11. Flying Red Fox Blog June 28, 2009 at 9:06 am #

    Great photo! 😀 I heard a few Bats at the villa in Majorca, too dark to catch them on camera but was fun flashing all over the place lol!

  12. Words June 28, 2009 at 9:06 am #

    Thanks Mark… Photographing bats though… it's enough to drive you completely batty! I've tried once or twice with the ones that fly over the garden but I've never got anywhere near. Looking forward to seeing the photos you did manage.

  13. gdare June 28, 2009 at 10:06 am #

    maybe one should hang up side down to get photo like this one 😀

  14. Words June 28, 2009 at 11:06 pm #

    Darko, that's crazy 😆

  15. gdare June 29, 2009 at 5:06 am #

    😀