Badger (Male)

[Trev B]

Taken at my woodland sett, this I believe to be the father of the cub I posted previously. It is the dominant male within the group.

62 - Badger (M) 162-5 by Trevor Bartlett MBE, on Flickr

[Lepus]

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A lovely image Trev , he looks nice and relaxed .

[pelliott1954]

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Very nice Trev, am hoping to catch some of this soon but no luck yet

Regards Paul

[tesarver]

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Trev

Tom

[Trev B]

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Thanks Mark, Paul, Tom, the bracken beginning to start taking over surrounding the sett, so leave them to it until the autumn.

[Stan]

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lovely shot Trev, very lucky to see them regularly - I have never seen a wild one

Stan

[antoeknee]

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Agree a nice image.

Had a family group scare life out of us at Minsmere. Had been taking pics a dusk and on way back to cottage on path through woodland. They ran across the path about a yard in front of us. In the near dark it was a bit of a shock.

[Trev B]

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Thanks Stan, ant. They are an easy creature to photograph once you know a sett. You need to forget the camera for a few nights just watch and observe, which entrance they are using, what time they are emerging, they are creatures of habit - a few peanuts is like gold dust to them! In my younger days I've sat out all night, but now my own badgers come out at a respectable hour - in daylight, knowing there's a spreading of peanut butter on the logs. Flash is OK but needs a lot of setting up to get any quality pictures. I used to use three large Sunpak 5000 units plus a slave for background fill-in. That was in the days of Kodak Kodachrome you considered yourself lucky if you got three decent shots out of a roll of 36.