Badgers still resident at Badger Manor. 13th November 2025

I was getting rather concerned as I reviewed footage from Badger Manor this last week. One badger came through the area on 7th and 8th of November. No badger went in or out of the sett main sett entrance.

Finally, on the 9th did a badger appear in the main sett. It was the female. All she did was cross from the left to the right of the sett. I am supposing going from a left chamber to a right chamber. A few seconds later she passed from the right to the left.

The lack of footage of a badger using the main sett entrance, and the female seen to pass from left to right and back again, reinforces my theory that there is a chamber and entrance to the left of this main entrance. 

This would make sense to me. This main entrance is quite exposed to the path which runs across it. An entrance to the left is much more hidden, sheltered and difficult for  human to get to.

After the female's little jaunt on Tuesday 9th November, there were no more badger sightings until Friday 12th November. When a badger investigated the main sett entrance, but didn't go in.

However, later on our female badger made her usual cautious exit, then promptly turned around and disappeared back into the sett, turning left in the process. This is contrary to their normal habit uptil now.

Once again, there were no badger sightings either going in or exiting the main sett entrance until the early morning of Saturday 13th November. A badger (male by its size) enters the main sett entrance, and a minute or two later both badgers are seen. They hang around a while, have a bit of anal rubbing (nothing too vigorous, you realise) and off they went to the left, where I think there is a sett entrance.

Oh, well. It looks like I may have a little bit of an unpleasant time tomorrow entrance as I try and hunt for a sett entrance to the left of the main sett. It's rather overgrown in this area, and tricky for a human to get through.

I do know where one sett hole is, but it doesn't really look as if it has been used.  There is another entrance some ten yards from the main sett, but I haven't seen a badger use it. Sods law says this latter entrance is the one I am looking for. Only, I removed a trail cam from it a couple of weeks ago, in the belief that nothing was happening there.

Other animals using the area in front of the main sett entrance this week include foxes, Muntac and Roe deer, Grey squirrels, mouse caching nuts in the sett,  a robin and a Nuthatch.

Here is a Grey squirrel caching a nut in the side of the main set entrance.

Now a Nuthatch. This is the third time this Nuthatch has visited this area in a couple of weeks.