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

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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  1. gdare

    19 Jun 2009

    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

    19 Jun 2009

    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

    19 Jun 2009

    :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

    20 Jun 2009

    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

    20 Jun 2009

    Thanks. I'll check it out

  6. SittingFox

    20 Jun 2009

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

  7. SittingFox

    20 Jun 2009

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

  8. Words

    20 Jun 2009

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

  9. Ukwildlife

    20 Jun 2009

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

  10. Words

    20 Jun 2009

    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

    28 Jun 2009

    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

    28 Jun 2009

    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

    28 Jun 2009

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

  14. Words

    28 Jun 2009

    Darko, that's crazy 😆

  15. gdare

    29 Jun 2009

    😀

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