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Binfield Badger Group
Protecting Badgers in BerkshireCharity number: 1075886
Badger Videos
The following videos were filmed using an infrared CCTV camera, hence are in black and white.
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The first is a short video that shows a badger collecting bedding. They do this by gathering the bedding together with their front legs and walking backwards all the way to the sett entrance. Amazingly they can navigate along their paths backwards and they drop very little on route!
This video shows two adult badgers finding peanuts that we had put out in front of the hide. One of the pair of foxes that also shares the small copse were the sett is located also shows up.
This was the first night that we recorded video of the cubs of 2011. It shows them drinking water from a bowl that we put out as it has been very dry this month. They are not that much smaller than "Mum &Dad". You can also spot one of the adults trying to get one of the cubs to head back to the copse!
This was taken on 20 May 2011 and shows a single badger out before dark.
The following was later the same night and shows how the cubs are growing quickly. It clearly shows two adults and two cubs near the camera, but at the start of the video there is also movement near the top of the undergrowth - are there more cubs?
Yes there are more cubs - this video is from 20 June 2011 and shows 6 badgers. We now know that there are 8 badgers at the sett. There are 4 cubs and 2 mothers, which is unusual as normally only the dominant sow produces cubs.
February 2012 - Badgers in the snow!
If anyone thinks that badgers hibernate, the next CCTV clips will prove them wrong. During the first snow of 2012 you can see four badgers silhouetted against the white snow. You can see from the CCTV that the snow is still falling. We may never know what happened to the other four badgers, hopefully they travelled to find richer foraging in more rural neighbouring territories where there is less noise from local houses.
And a badger teaching a fox table manners!
Check back soon for more videos - a new member has been experimenting with a higher resolution night camera and the initial results are impressively clear.