Badger shots and exploring the cliff.

We currently have this trap camera set on video only, but here are couple of snapshots from its video footage:

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Taken at the end of a long and trying night by the looks of it. How has it got that dirty? This badger came up through the hole under the fence and waddled off bedwards.

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These two badgers spent a little while grooming each other before setting off across the meadows for the evening.

Today we decided to venture down the cliff a bit to place a camera on one of the many burrows and diggings that pepper it:

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Getting over the fence onto the cliff.
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Steep and difficult terrain.

We think that the hole it is now trained on is a fox den but we will see what we get when we retrieve it tomorrow. This is a first dipping of a toe into an exploration of the cliff – we would like to get a camera on the badger sett at a respectful distance but that is in quite a forbidding location and we may need to be roped up. This is a project for when we have more confidence.

 

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