Evidence increases that there are three badgers. 17th November 2025

I have increasing evidence that three badgers are using the main sett. I suspect two males and one female. Though, I can't be sure unless my trail cams photograph all three together. Unfortunately, the evidence is inconclusive.

In this first video, it looks as is both badgers are roughly the same size.

However, in this video it appears that the closer of the two badgers is larger than the further of the two.  Is this just perspective causing this apparent size disparity.

Photos and videos of two badgers together have, uptil now, shown a marked difference in sizes. One, presumably the boar, is much larger that the other, presumably the sow.  The differences do not appear as large in the above two videos.

Hey ho, perhaps time will reveal all.

Of a more worrying note, I do fret every week, is that the two badgers troop off together on Friday evening, but do not return on Saturday morning.  I have seen this behaviour before, and cannot determine if the badgers use another entrance to the main sett or decided to hang out in another sett. I think it did rain on Friday night. Badgers do not really like the rain. But then, who does when it is cold?

I've spotted a couple of latrines, but they tend to be used once, perhaps others dug close by, and then nothing. One badger decided to dig a latrine in the middle of the footpath the setts are on. A couple of years back I would have cursed a dog for this act. Now, I'm excited to find a badger latrine, allbeit in the middle of a footpath.