Still two badgers. More evidence for entrance or chamber to left of main entrance. 6th December 2025

Our two badgers are still here, enduring the wild, wet and changeable weather we've experienced this week: mild, dry, very wet, torrential rain, freezing, frost, high winds, etc. Only snow and hail remain to happen.

After two weeks of frantic activity scraping bedding into the sett, our female badger has slowed down this week and only made one foray. However, with the possibility of sett entrances to the left of the main entrance, it is possible that she did forays via that one. More on this later. I have a suspicion that there are one or more chambers to the left of the main entrance.

A mouse shares the sett with our badgers. It has been exceedingly busy, charging out of the sett, scurrying across the footpath, and back again. No doubts getting food and caching it.

I feel it is a little safer than of late. Only one visit by a large cat (which can clog up my trail cams  by hanging around and causing it to trigger hundreds of times), and no sign of foxes.

My trail cams reveal more evidence of  an entrance to the left of the main entrance or if not an entrance, then a chamber, or both perhaps. In this first video, you'll just glimpse a badger (probably the female moving straw from the left to the right of the main entrance. She did several movements from left to right and back again over the week.

I could be wrong, but this is the first week where our badgers indulged in an extended grooming session.  The size differences between the boar and sow are very evident in these videos.

What has been lacking since our badgers returned is any anal rubbing. Very odd.