Badgers!
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Taken in Scotland.
They are large, burrowing, nocturnal animals, with strong claws and a thick coat.
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Garden visitor.
Scientific name: Meles meles.
Badgers are the UK's largest land predator and are one of the most well-known British species. They are famed for their black and white stripes and sturdy body, using their strong front paws to dig for food.
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Garden visitors.
Scientific name: Meles meles.
Family: Mustelidae.
With its characteristic black and white-striped face, grey fur and short furry tail, the badger looks like no other UK mammal. Stocky, powerfully-built creatures, they typically weigh 10–12kg, with a body length of about 90cm. This makes them the biggest land predator in the UK. Info: Woodland Trust .
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Garden visitors.
Scientific name: Meles meles.
Family: Mustelidae.
With its characteristic black and white-striped face, grey fur and short furry tail, the badger looks like no other UK mammal. Stocky, powerfully-built creatures, they typically weigh 10–12kg, with a body length of about 90cm. This makes them the biggest land predator in the UK. Info: Woodland Trust.
Many thanks to people who view or comment on my photos.
“E quando addentate una mela, ditele nel vostro cuore: 'I tuoi semi vivranno nel mio corpo, E i tuoi germogli futuri sbocceranno nel mio cuore, La loro fragranza sarà il mio respiro, E insieme gioiremo in tutte le stagioni'.”
Garden visitor.
Scientific name: Meles meles.
Family: Mustelidae.
With its characteristic black and white-striped face, grey fur and short furry tail, the badger looks like no other UK mammal. Stocky, powerfully-built creatures, they typically weigh 10–12kg, with a body length of about 90cm. This makes them the biggest land predator in the UK. Info: Woodland Trust.
Many thanks to people who view or comment on my photos.
Scientific name: Meles meles.
Family: Mustelidae.
With its characteristic black and white-striped face, grey fur and short furry tail, the badger looks like no other UK mammal. Stocky, powerfully-built creatures, they typically weigh 10–12kg, with a body length of about 90cm. This makes them the biggest land predator in the UK. Info: Woodland Trust.
Many thanks to people who view or comment on my photos.
Garden visitor.
Scientific name: Meles meles.
Badgers are the UK's largest land predator and are one of the most well-known British species. They are famed for their black and white stripes and sturdy body, using their strong front paws to dig for food.
Conservation status:
Protected in the UK under the Protection of Badgers Act, 1992, and the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
Many thanks to people who view or comment on my photos.
If you look carefully you will see a beetle carrying something back to the mossy mound towards the front Badger from the bottom of the frame and freezes when it sees the Badgers. (It is about 13 seconds in)
Although the bulk of their diet is made up of earthworms, they also eat slugs and insects and have a keen sense of smell and sharp claws that can root up grubs from under the soil surface.
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Badger taken at the RSPB Hawswater hide.
Okay - quick review of the hide.
It is beautifully built but probably not by a photographer. Two slots at the badger's ground level but only one is big enough to get a 150-600mm lens through.
The glass is single pane thickness so I took photos through it.
I had to use a tripod.
There were just two of us using the hide so I had room, more than two people would have been a problem.
The flood lights flicker which does affect the photo's.
Badgers are very close you could get good close ups with a 70-200 lens.
There are masses of Rats (inevitably) and this badger came running in, rooted around and ran off with a rat, they are very fast animals and I missed that shot.
Hope this helps
Garden visitor.
Scientific name: Meles meles.
Family: Mustelidae.
With its characteristic black and white-striped face, grey fur and short furry tail, the badger looks like no other UK mammal. Stocky, powerfully-built creatures, they typically weigh 10–12kg, with a body length of about 90cm. This makes them the biggest land predator in the UK. Info: Woodland Trust.
Many thanks to people who view or comment on my photos.
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Garden visitor.
Scientific name: Meles meles.
Family: Mustelidae.
With its characteristic black and white-striped face, grey fur and short furry tail, the badger looks like no other UK mammal. Stocky, powerfully-built creatures, they typically weigh 10–12kg, with a body length of about 90cm. This makes them the biggest land predator in the UK. Info: Woodland Trust.
Many thanks to people who view or comment on my photos.