Super cute alert. 11th April 2026

First the bad news. My trail cam which points into the central entrance of Badger Manor ran out of charge on the morning of the 8th April. Returned to Badger Manor on the 11th April to do my weekly swapping of SD cards. We lost a lot of really cute footage of the badger cubs.

Luckily, however, the cubs switched to using the lower left entrance for two of the missing three days. So all is not as bad as could have been.

The cubs are growing at a tremendous speed, both physically and mentally. Just two weeks ago, the sow introduced the cubs to the outside world, and now she is taking them out onto the footpath to explore the big bad world.

Firstly, we'll start with what all children get up to - play.

Both cubs have been exploring the sett area, but one makes it to the edge of the area with the potential for danger. Mum, however, puts a stop to it.

Mum brings the cub back.

She then takes both cubs out onto the footpath.

Before bringing them back. But they don't see the hole that was dug some months ago.

This was the last video shot by the front facing trail cam before it ran out of charge.

When I first saw this video I was perplexed as to where the cub had come from. I surmised that mum had taken it out of another sett entrance before leading it around the back of the sett to get to this entrance.

At first I thought it might have been via the upper left entrance, as I saw the sow go down it. I can't give you the answer as I reached my daily upload limit with YouTube.

I may have to put another trail cam out in the hated upper left sett hole. I feel that all badgers are either using it or the path a lot. Here we see the sow exiting the lower left entrance, climb up the bank, before disappearing down the upper left entrance.