I believe the sow exited the sett. The board passed through. More digging. 11th January 2026

I decided that as we pass the sett on our Sunday walk, I'd take the opportunity to swap out two SD cards. One was from an UsoGood. It is a particularly useless trail cam, an example of how not to design a trail cam. Last week's SD card held no imagery at all. It's possible I didn't turn on the machine properly, or perhaps the card is somehow suspect.

The second was from the trail cam facing the front of the main sett entrance. I wanted to see if any badger exited the sett since Friday.

Well, the UsoGood SD card showed a badger having a go at digging out the lower left sett entrance. I believe it is a boar. Whether it is the incumbent boar or an interloper is anyone's guess. He didn't have much of a go at the hole. Sloppy work!

'm not sure where he went after digging the hole as this would be recorded on one of the other trail cams and I didn't swap the SD cards. Yes, I did swap out one of the cards, but it faces the main entrance, and would not have picked up this badger had it turned left and gone on to the footpath.

Here we have the bane of my life. My trail cams have captured endless footage and photographs of a mouse charging in and out of the sett entrances: lower left, upper left and main. This particular video simply winds me up. Two bleedin' mice!

Just my luck they turn out to be a breeding couple, and I'll end up with hundreds of the wee beasties.

Back to the main sett entrance. I believe that this is the sow exiting the main sett for the first time in ages. I'm not 100% sure, but this badger appears to have a longer, thin face. Although not up to her normal extremely nervous exit, this badger did show a degree of caution leaving the sett.

Once again, there is no footage of this badger returning, but I am convinced there is more than one entrance to this sett.

Finally. I believe this is a board, and is the one digging out the lower left sett entrance. It often heads left after visiting this main sett entrance, which kind of leads me to believe he is our original, incumbent boar. Notice that his face, particularly his white cheeks are much rounded than the badger above.

I remain cautiously optimistic we'll see more badger activity this coming week. There was no frost this morning, though the temperature did drop to -4C around here at 23:00 last night, and we can look forward to temperatures as high as 12C next week. Less rain, but a little frost on Wednesday.

​We saw a lot more badger sign this morning, in keeping with the warmer weather.