Evidence this morning, and for two years on the trot, it's not just eggs or ground game young they target, they are doing in our low numbers of pollinators.
Are badgers in the same league as foxes?
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Worse than foxes because there's more of the sods. Remember in my youth when one ripped the boarding off our henhouse and killed everything in there. The daft animal then went to sleep in the shed. Not a good idea, very difficult to kill when three terriers are pitched in. The Old chap eventually got a shot in.
I had one get in the pheasant pen on Saturday night - only a tiddler - must have got through a pop hole - if that was a fox cub it would have been carnage - the badger appears to have come in and gone back out
hairlesshunter
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I once watched a badger fighting a hedgehog it was horrible but in the end the hedgehog won on points 
I once watched a badger fighting a hedgehog it was horrible but in the end the hedgehog won on points
Freeforester
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The problem has been created by political means; it follows that the solution should also be political.
We should be supporting eg GCWT to lobby for a change in legislation once sensible people are running the country ( including the countryside).
Anyone wishing to protect them on their land should be granted the right to so do; equally, anyone who wishes to protect and enhance the commonly held/valued biodiversity on their holding should be allowed to so do.
A destroyed bumble bee colony, July 2025
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swatty
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I’ve also watched one do this whilst said lamb was being born
Rhodesianjess
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Out last night,looked across the boundary to neighbours grass field with large sett in it. Counted 5 cubs chasing each other about playing tag, let's hope they stay their side of boundary hedge!
