{"id":2380,"date":"2012-09-02T23:09:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T22:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2380"},"modified":"2013-11-03T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T21:01:19","slug":"a-couple-of-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-couple-of-badgers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After yesterday&#39;s foxes, tonight it&#39;s the return of the badgers.  The main shots are of the elderly badger who I&#39;ve nicknamed &#39;Lumpy&#39;. It&#39;s carrying numerous scars around the neck area, and has some sort of growth on its rear left leg. This doesn&#39;t seem to impede its movement. You can make it out in this first photo. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/badger_lumpy_0209129302.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Lumpy also appears to be blind in one eye, as can be seen by the lack of eyeshine (tapetum reflection) in its left eye (right side of the photo).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/badger_lumpy_0209129329.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>For all that, Lumpy is a fine looking badger. It&#39;s just a matter of finding the right angle. I think this shot manages it. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/badger_lumpy_0209129310.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve yet to figure out the social hierarchy at play among the badgers, and while I would assume that Lumpy is perfectly capable of being a dominant character, she (or he?) made a fairly rapid exit when a much younger badger appeared from the rear of the garden.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/badger_juvenile_0209129335.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Mind you, the foxes also beat a hasty retreat in similar circumstances&#8230; this from last night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reactr-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Foxes and Badger (short)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V5Ucw_CNdfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens. Video via the Bushnell Trophy Cam.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,4,3],"tags":[160,1128],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-foxes","category-wildlife","tag-badger-2","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}