All normal at Badger Manor. Urban sett now occupied by foxes. 8th March 2026

After the excitement of last week, with badger cub and Sparrowhawk, quiet normality has returned to Badger Manor.

I still do not know how many badgers are using this sett. I get the impression that a couple of new sett holes are being dug to the left of the main sett hole, but I do not know if this is being done by the existing badgers or a new one.

I paid my last visit to our urban badger sett. Much as I had expected, the badgers had abandoned the sett. I felt this was an outlier or satellite sett, which one or two sows had used over winter. They have now returned to the main sett - which I will attempt to find one day.

I'm not sure if any badger gave birth in this sett or if one did, whether the cub or cubs died. We'll never know. A couple of foxes visited the sett, but none came out with a cub.  The owner then told me that this sett was originally a fox den, which a couple of badgers took over and enlarged. So, in reality, the foxes were reclaiming what was theirs.

​I suspect the owner will see fox cubs this year.