{"id":2362,"date":"2012-08-16T00:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T23:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2362"},"modified":"2013-11-03T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T23:24:17","slug":"juveniles-including-badgers-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/juveniles-including-badgers-and-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Juveniles (including badgers and video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A mini theme tonight, partly as a reason to include some other local wildlife in addition to the current stars of the garden. First up then is this young moorhen, firmly in its adolescent stage.
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The herring gull adolescents are mid-moult, and are spending much of their time ducking and diving in the water to clean away the dust created by the moult. The rest of the time they harass and chase each other.
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The starring youngsters though are the badgers. Just one of them this evening…
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And in the absence of a photographic fox, here's a promised video. This is a lengthy sequence (around 5 minutes) of clips taken last night. They are edited, but in sequence and give something of an idea of just how busy it can get out there. It starts with the young badgers while I was photographing them, and from there on it's a mix of foxes and badgers, sometimes in the same clip. The badger that appears at around 3 minutes is an adult. The black cat is a very regular interloper. :cat:<\/p>\n