I may have found the left entrance to Badger Manor. 14th November 2025

Armed with a pair of secateurs and wearing tough old walking boots, I ventured into the undergrowth to the left of the main sett entrance to Badger Manor. Old bramble canes, with the odd new one, fell to my secateurs.

I walked past a low badger sett entrance, which I'd known about for some time but discounted as unused, ploughing up a hill, and espied what looked like a badger sett entrance against a fence behind Badger Manor. A further clipping and removal of old and new bramble canes, I feel I have found an active sett entrance to the left of the main entrance.

What appeared to be straw, hay or straw was strewn about the front of the hole. While the downward slope looked reasonably clear, as if the hole was being used actively. The hole itself is about 3m from the main sett entrance. Close enough to either dig a connecting tunnel or, hopefully, a chamber. A holly tree would provide lots of roots to support the chamber, while the hole is less accessible from the footpath.  I hope to move some branches around to make it even less accessible - or seem that way from the footpath. Afterall, I need to get to it to swap SD cards!

A nice feature of where the hole is placed is that it should be relatively easy to put a trail cam out on it, while keeping the trail cam reasonably well hidden from the footpath. Only the most observant of souls would see it, and only the most persistent will want to manouevre their way through the undergrowth to it.

Now all I have to do is get a trail cam onto the hole. Hmm, not sure when. It's supposed to rain a lot over the next week. Sigh.