Monitoring an additional active sett under a shed! 8th February 2026

A friend of my partner told her that she had badgers living under her back garden shed, in the middle of a large housing estate. I immediately suggested contacting the Binfield Badger group to inform them of the active sett and ask if they were happy to monitor it. My partner's friend revealed she was a member of said group, had informed them sometime ago of the sett, suggested they might to monitor it, but never heard back from the group! How strange.

Anyway, I offered to set up a trail cam and monitor the sett. I didn't know my partner's friend, so left it to her to find out what her friend was happy to do monitoring wise. Her friend was happy for me to monitor the sett, so my partner and I trooped off to firstly review the sett's location and to determine suitable sites to place a trail cam.

I made a new trail cam stand out of scrap wood, and we duly traipsed back on Thursday to set  everything up.  We'll leave the trail cam running for a couple of weeks or three, before traipsing back to see what is revealed.

My partner's friend did reveal a very interesting piece of information to us. Her badgers upped sticks and abandoned their sett round about May of last year, and returned October of last year. This same behaviour happened with our badgers at Badger Manor. Whether the same badgers who left a sett returned to it is a different question.

​The larger question is, where did these badgers go over summer?