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  • Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
  • From what Badgers eat to how long they can live for, when badgers breed to where they live. In this badger fact wile you will find all of these answers and more!
    #nature #badgers #britishwildlife
    Some of the footage and photographs in this video were obtained using creative commons licences. The originals and their licence details can be found at:
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 210

  • @AShotOfWildlife
    @AShotOfWildlife  25 днів тому

    Thank you for watching this video and taking a look at the comments!
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    Cheers.

  • @richhughes7450
    @richhughes7450 2 роки тому +48

    I live near a field and it's had Badgers in it for the 50 yrs I've lived her (since I was born) some yrs ago, or about the time of the badger culling, one of the sets had all the holes filled in with hard-core. I removed it all by hand which took me 3 hours and they seemed to be OK when I checked a few days later as you could see badgers activity around the set.

    • @chrisstephens6673
      @chrisstephens6673 11 місяців тому +4

      I believe the penalty for Interfering with a badger's sett, either deliberately or accidentally, is up to 6 months in prison, do you think the hard-core vandals knew that?
      Oh and well done for doing that.👍

    • @user-pb8vz5nt9p
      @user-pb8vz5nt9p 7 місяців тому

      & Do you think it's Right For the holes to be filled..........I think millions will agree with me it is Not"
      Stop f***** with God's creation & protecting the Evil doers....Fool😂

    • @user-pb8vz5nt9p
      @user-pb8vz5nt9p 7 місяців тому +3

      You Did a brilliant Job

    • @Desertfox170
      @Desertfox170 3 місяці тому

      Yeah we believe you bell ender

    • @slipngrip
      @slipngrip 2 місяці тому

      Thank you for saving them

  • @RHR-221b
    @RHR-221b 2 роки тому +32

    Thank you, Liam. A few years ago, in the town centre of Somerset's county town about midnight, where I bide, an adult badger strolled past. We exchanged respectful greetings, before he (I believe, he), sniffed the air, then gave me a 'knowing' look, before crossing the usually (but then quiet) very busy main drag (A38), and then going upon his/her busy way.
    A very soulful meeting, for me.
    Stay free. Rab 💚 🌠

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +4

      Cheers Rab. A great encounter and I'm sure it'll stay with you for many years to come.

    • @JvdahMC
      @JvdahMC 2 роки тому

      what so Somerton? also that is very cool

  • @Deepthought-42
    @Deepthought-42 2 роки тому +9

    We have several badgers visit every night. They like digestive biscuits, and peanuts. Always a privilege to see them turn up.
    Disgusted by badger culling

    • @chrisstephens6673
      @chrisstephens6673 11 місяців тому +2

      Same here, have a set at the far end of they garden, not bad for the leafy suburbs of NW London. Mine get peanuts, a few digestives, various dog foods but they love small pieces of wholemeal peanut butter sandwiches ,which a couple of "my" badgers will gladly take from my hand, one will even stand with its front paws on my knee while doing so. The first one I fed would come up to me and prompt me to feed it by using his paw and that was about 15 years ago, I have been out every night since come rain or snow, except for four nights spent in hospital.
      It's a privilege to have such creatures so close at hand.

  • @allenharris1069
    @allenharris1069 2 роки тому +11

    Wildlife is precious. Long may the harmless Badger be with us. Not so their persecutors !

    • @Bignfluffy
      @Bignfluffy Рік тому

      Harmless?

    • @allenharris1069
      @allenharris1069 Рік тому +1

      @@Bignfluffy Compered to Big Monkeys. Definitely !

    • @aswclassicsiow8588
      @aswclassicsiow8588 11 місяців тому

      @@Bignfluffy Yes they are, compared to people

    • @Bignfluffy
      @Bignfluffy 11 місяців тому

      @@aswclassicsiow8588 they can seriously hurt large dogs and kill cats occasionally😂 tf you mean harmless?

    • @aswclassicsiow8588
      @aswclassicsiow8588 11 місяців тому +1

      @@Bignfluffy will only attack if treatened, or they are attacked

  • @philburr4075
    @philburr4075 2 роки тому +16

    I knew of a badger set, we stumbled upon it by accident, it was just going dark and a family of about 5/6 came out of the set or sets. I was 22 and it was my first encounter of a badger in the wild.

  • @mrsmith4662
    @mrsmith4662 2 роки тому +11

    I love the badger. What a terrific UK wild mammal. Saw one early morning in the park - thought it was a cat at first, but when it started running, with its funny podgy body and black and white stripes. Great.

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +1

      They are fantastic. I'm going to try to spend more time in their presence in the coming months. Cheers

  • @richrcwx1685
    @richrcwx1685 2 роки тому +9

    I have been all over Britain an it is rare but not impossible to see these beautiful creatures, i don't believe in the cull i personality think it's the farmers an wealthy landowners who don't want to pay for their cattle to be immunised, leave them alone. Great show again

    • @vetworker
      @vetworker 2 роки тому +1

      Not rare at all to see a badger. I see them everyday but maybe I’m just lucky.

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +2

      I think you are lucky. I spend a lot of time around badger setts and still only see them rarely. In some places they are quite used to people so I suppose if they are like that you might see them more often.

    • @Yeah-You
      @Yeah-You 2 роки тому +1

      I see plenty of badgers

    • @miapulchritudinous9791
      @miapulchritudinous9791 2 роки тому +1

      Do badgers have any animal predators? I saw one when I was a child. It was during the day in a forest on holiday in Wales. It was a lot bigger than I expected!

    • @vetworker
      @vetworker 2 роки тому +2

      @@miapulchritudinous9791 no predators except man.

  • @asseyez-vous6492
    @asseyez-vous6492 2 роки тому +32

    I can tell you a fact about badgers: You can NEVER rule anything out with badgers! Their hair is banded black and white making them look grey. Also, their hair shaft is triangular, so a badger hair rolled between your fingers won’t roll smoothly. Only a select few know how to kill hedgehogs. Also, the cubs most likely have different fathers in the same litter as the sows have something called ‘delayed implantation.’
    From an active badger rescuer and has been to several full w/E badger conferences. Oh, and imo, I believe cattle give tb to the badgers and other species in the first place (badgers love to dig under cow pats for grubs and worms). My theory isn’t supported by gov scientists however.

    • @cyrus2728
      @cyrus2728 2 роки тому +9

      Hence the very sad badger culls in the uk

    • @juniusvindex769
      @juniusvindex769 2 роки тому +1

      True. When did the government ever listen to reason or truth ??
      Can't believe vets go along with the bs either............

    • @tomarmstrong5244
      @tomarmstrong5244 2 роки тому

      We need to kill more badgers. Good for nothing except making shaving brushes. And where there is lots of badgers, there are no hedghogs, and all badgers will kill and eat the baby hoglets.

    • @andrewdrummond1244
      @andrewdrummond1244 2 роки тому

      I think it was the Norman French that gave the name badger. To Dig?

    • @chrisstephens6673
      @chrisstephens6673 11 місяців тому +3

      I had a cousin who was a country vet and her husband was a farmer, they both were girmly of the conviction that it is cows who give tb to the badgers, and culling badgers is not the answer but a mere sop to farmers who should have better farming practice.

  • @bealtainecottage
    @bealtainecottage 2 роки тому +14

    I love your channel! It’s so informative! Thank you 🙏

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you. I have lots more videos lined up so stay tuned :)

  • @ThePollaton
    @ThePollaton 2 роки тому +12

    Beautiful creatures, I love searching for setts and have discovered a few over the years, which I keep an eye on to make sure they stay safe. 🥰

  • @andrewdrummond1244
    @andrewdrummond1244 2 роки тому +4

    Never used to see badgers up here in Fife Scotland, but now l see them regularly.

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +2

      The same thing has happened here. We didn't used to have many setts, but now there are quite a few.

  • @sh8736
    @sh8736 2 роки тому +7

    Badgers adore bird peanuts and fat balls and will break into sheds and dustbins to get them. They are also easily able to work out food recycling bins even with a weigh on the top. Simple push the bin over to get rid of the weight then move the handle and then simply get your nose in to enter the bin.

  • @hankschrader2906
    @hankschrader2906 2 роки тому +5

    This Is so good Great video Bud!

  • @celestenova777
    @celestenova777 2 роки тому +8

    That was very interesting, didn't know they catch and eat hedgehogs. ..wow....lol...had a badger in my garden last year, sniffing around some plant pots, amazing to see. Thanks for your work.

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you. Everything has its predators, if there's enough habitat then it's not a problem, they can sustain their numbers even with predators.

  • @hazzardoutdoors
    @hazzardoutdoors 2 роки тому +2

    I do love badgers and still hope to one day see them in the wild....

  • @grampawud
    @grampawud 2 роки тому +4

    Very interesting. On Saturday I was checking the trail cam I have set up at the bottom of my garden and found footage of a baby badger snooping about, which was nice.

  • @hhc1000
    @hhc1000 13 днів тому +1

    Incredible species. Pure gift to Britain

  • @aswclassicsiow8588
    @aswclassicsiow8588 11 місяців тому +1

    Have loads of Badger runs were I live, really beautiful animals to watch I love all wild life and respect it all as it was there land before we took it over

  • @angelalayton1655
    @angelalayton1655 2 роки тому +10

    Another great video very informative. I’ve never seen a badger, shame they eat hedgehogs though 😔

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +7

      Cheers. Them eating hedgehogs wouldn't cause an issue if there was plenty of good habitat for the hedgehogs to sustain healthy numbers.
      That said, there are some signs that hedgehogs may be recovering in numbers in a few places so fingers crossed.

    • @fessali5726
      @fessali5726 Рік тому

      @@AShotOfWildlife I think you need to stop lying dude. They are dangerous animals that challenge and charge at you. Their numbers are getting out of hand now. We are not used to them and they are not used to us. It’s an issue.

  • @dexocube
    @dexocube 2 роки тому +8

    I love badgers, only seen them a coupla times. I'm not completely convinced that the badger cull is based on good science.

    • @thedativecase9733
      @thedativecase9733 2 роки тому

      All it does, apart from murdering lots of beautiful, innocent creatures, is make room for other badgers to move in to the culling area, achieving nothing useful. There has to be a more civilised way to deal with Bovine TB ,it's the 21st century not the 19th after all.

    • @chrisstephens6673
      @chrisstephens6673 Рік тому +1

      It wasn't, they may spread it but only because of bad farming practice that gave it to them to spread.

    • @aswclassicsiow8588
      @aswclassicsiow8588 11 місяців тому

      @@chrisstephens6673 very true,

    • @alastairatcheson1407
      @alastairatcheson1407 9 місяців тому

      ​@@chrisstephens6673what are the bad practices?

    • @littleworkshopofhorrors2395
      @littleworkshopofhorrors2395 9 місяців тому

      @@alastairatcheson1407 spreading infected manure?

  • @CrusaderSchmedes
    @CrusaderSchmedes Рік тому +3

    I used to live in Northampton and I came a couple of badgers while walking back to my university campus while absolutely hammered. The size of these guys is fairly impressive although I don't understand why so many people are scared of them

    • @alastairatcheson1407
      @alastairatcheson1407 9 місяців тому +1

      Very strong jaws and large teeth. And violent if cornered.

  • @craggyexplores3070
    @craggyexplores3070 Рік тому +1

    My family were camping on shell island. A badger stolen all the food from the cool box in the awning. U could see the trail of food the next morning near the holes. Big Bertie and co had a full feast that evening.

  • @elli934
    @elli934 2 роки тому +5

    I really enjoy your videos. I found you from the river video and you've really made me look forward to being outdoors more and just watching even the smallest wildlife.

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you. I'm so glad my videos have helped encourage you to enjoy the outdoors more.

  • @Hotarubi-dono
    @Hotarubi-dono 2 роки тому +4

    "Rather insignificant tail" UNPROVOKED!

    • @blixten2928
      @blixten2928 2 роки тому +1

      But funny, you have to admit.

    • @cyrus2728
      @cyrus2728 2 роки тому +4

      Tail shaming lol,its not as insignificant as our human ones.

  • @skathwoelya2935
    @skathwoelya2935 2 роки тому +1

    Another excellent video. Love this channel!

  • @clairecooper197
    @clairecooper197 2 роки тому +1

    More on badgers 🙏🏼 please. I have 3 badgers that visit my front garden most nights. I leave nuts and seedy bread out for them. I capture most of them on my ring system. Two let me watch from them from an open window. One is very skittish, as soon as the window opens he’s gone. 🦡🦡🦡 lol xx

  • @ginnypurdey1
    @ginnypurdey1 2 роки тому +7

    I love your channel. Garden birds helped me come out of a severe depression and PTSD back in 2011. It still raises its ugly head from time to time, however through this journey I've discovered nature is such a calming influence in life.
    We are so fortunate to have so many species of birds/ducks/pheasants (they eat us out of house and home !!!). My question is about our pheasants and their life ?. I can't find anything.

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +5

      Cheers, I'm glad nature has helped you. Pheasants are on my list for future videos, I just need some more footage of them before I can get that together.

    • @ginnypurdey1
      @ginnypurdey1 2 роки тому

      @@AShotOfWildlife Fantastic. During the Winter months into early Spring they come to feed and off they go ..... somewhere ???.

    • @cyrus2728
      @cyrus2728 2 роки тому +1

      If you have the room.indian runner ducks are very relaxing and amusing to watch and you get free eggs.

    • @ginnypurdey1
      @ginnypurdey1 2 роки тому

      @@cyrus2728 So sorry for the delay in replying Cyrus. I have never heard of Indian Runner Ducks and have just looked them up online. I am not sure where you're from Cyrus, they don't seem to be native to the UK, however you can buy them in varying colours.
      I love ducks, and our newest recruit is Toni. Her Mother (Tessa) flew into our garden with her in tail !!!!. She has been feeding ever since, strangely we have never seen Tessa since.

    • @cyrus2728
      @cyrus2728 2 роки тому +1

      @@ginnypurdey1 im in the uk.my daughter had a free photoshoot for her baby and the photographer brought 2 little ducklings from a farm on the way here for the shoot and she wasnt sure what to do with them after so we kept them. They are really funny to watch. Oh wow the mother just dropped her off and left, maybe she thought she was a stork.

  • @jeffallinson8089
    @jeffallinson8089 Рік тому +1

    Badgers are such wonderful and fascinating creatures. I have unfortunately never seen one. Thanks for this interesting video Liam.

  • @user-hx5xq6tl9f
    @user-hx5xq6tl9f 2 роки тому +3

    We used to see Momma badger pass our garden most nights… then didn’t see her for a while and I was getting worried about her.. then she popped up with her baby!!! Unfortunately, a week or so later there was a dead badger in the graveyard… no way was it hit by a car as the road isn’t near the church yard and I think some scuzz bag is poisoning them!!! Makes me so angry! We saw the youngster alone and it was probably looking for mum and if it followed her scent would have found her body in the graveyard and that thought breaks my heart 😢

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +3

      That's a shame. Hopefully the youngster was old enough to fend for itself and survived.
      I think something nefarious may be happening at my local sett too, no dead animals but the badgers seem to have all gone in tge last 6 months.

    • @user-hx5xq6tl9f
      @user-hx5xq6tl9f 2 роки тому +2

      @@AShotOfWildlife So sad! We should be protecting our badgers, not culling them. I’m not a great fan of farmers… or Tories and it seems they are the two groups that seem to particularly hate these beautiful beasts 😢

    • @Bignfluffy
      @Bignfluffy Рік тому +1

      @@user-hx5xq6tl9f they ARE protected

  • @yaki-moon
    @yaki-moon Рік тому +1

    I live in the South of Spain, way outside the village. We have badgers here. My littke dog and I nearly ran into one on an early morning walk, probably an old male, he was huge and gruffy. First 2 nano seconds I thought I saw a small bear😅 We all jumped, and then he ran pass by, up the mountain to his den.

  • @James-semaJ
    @James-semaJ Місяць тому

    I'm currently chilling at a spot I always go to in the woods and badgers live about 6 meters behind me. I see them quite often, they aren't that fussed by me being here coz I've come every day for years now. We get a deer that always walks through as well, even when I'm here. It's lovely. Randomly saw a pheasant here too, funny to see it run lol, Google it, hilarious. This is in West Yorkshire.

  • @jpronan8757
    @jpronan8757 11 місяців тому +1

    Badgers are awesome I've never seen one in real life yet they must be hard to come across.
    Great video Liam 😁

  • @aglandorf75
    @aglandorf75 2 роки тому +1

    About 15 years ago I had a car accident with a badger. At first I did not know what I hit till I went a few meters back and saw it was a badger. Was like hitting a speed bump at 100kmh. I went back to my car and got the wrench for changing the tires, just in case. When I came close to the badger I noticed he was dead. Just to look at it give you a sense of better not messing with it. Claws, teeth and the entire body is like a a tank on paws. Even the police didn't believe me when I said I hit a badger. Needed to get a report for the insurance company. Impressive animal.

    • @darthplagueis13
      @darthplagueis13 3 дні тому

      Odd that they wouldn't believe you. Game accidents with badgers aren't that unusual. The unusual thing is for the badger to instantly be killed in the accident, they usually manage to run away from the site of impact before even realizing they're hurt.

  • @mctea2033
    @mctea2033 2 роки тому +1

    Love your videos! Thank you for sharing them with us 🤗

  • @indyreno2933
    @indyreno2933 2 роки тому +1

    Badgers are carnivorans that belong to the family Melidae, there are over fifteen extant species within seven genera and four subfamilies, badgers are found only in Eurasia, Africa, and North America, badgers range in size from the formosan ferret badger to the european badger
    Taxonomy:
    • Family: Melidae (Badgers)
    •• Subfamily: Mellivorinae (Short-Faced Badgers)
    ••• Genus: Mellivora (Honey Badger Lineage)
    •••• Species: Mellivora capensis (Honey Badger)
    •• Subfamily: Helictidinae (Ferret Badgers)
    ••• Genus: Melogale (North Asian Ferret Badgers)
    •••• Species: Melogale moschata (Chinese Ferret Badger)
    •••• Species: Melogale subaurantiaca (Formosan Ferret Badger)
    ••• Genus: Helictis (Indochinese Ferret Badgers)
    •••• Species: Helictis personata (Burmese Ferret Badger)
    •••• Species: Helictis cucphuongensis (Vietnamese Ferret Badger)
    ••• Genus: Bassaritaxus (Indonesian Ferret Badgers)
    •••• Species: Bassaritaxus everetti (Bornean Ferret Badger)
    •••• Species: Bassaritaxus orientalis (Javan Ferret Badger)
    •• Subfamily: Melinae (Old World Badgers)
    ••• Genus: Arctonyx (Hog Badgers)
    •••• Species: Arctonyx collaris (Greater Hog Badger)
    •••• Species: Arctonyx albogularis (Northern Hog Badger)
    •••• Species: Arctonyx hoevenii (Sumatran Hog Badger)
    ••• Genus: Meles (Eurasian Badgers)
    •••• Species: Meles meles (European Badger)
    •••• Species: Meles canescens (Caucasian Badger)
    •••• Species: Meles leucurus (Asiatic Badger)
    •••• Species: Meles anakuma (Japanese Badger)
    •• Subfamily: Taxideinae (New World Badgers)
    ••• Genus: Taxidea (American Badger Lineage)
    •••• Species: Taxidea taxus (American Badger)

  • @johngcahill9583
    @johngcahill9583 2 роки тому +2

    Many thanks to you Liam and your team

  • @lisawilliams7836
    @lisawilliams7836 2 роки тому

    Thank you very much😊

  • @PublicLeePhotoVideo
    @PublicLeePhotoVideo 2 роки тому +10

    I have only caught a glimpse of a badger once. Similarly I've only seen a mole once, have you thought of doing a video on them?

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +6

      I would love to do a video on moles but there isn't any footage available of them and although badgers are hard to film, they are a walk in the park compared to moles.

    • @PublicLeePhotoVideo
      @PublicLeePhotoVideo 2 роки тому +5

      @@AShotOfWildlife that makes sense they are elusive little creatures

    • @RHR-221b
      @RHR-221b 2 роки тому +2

      @@AShotOfWildlife Thank you, ASOW. Stay free. Rab 😎 🍻

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 Рік тому +1

      I caught a mole summer before last, and its fur was the softest thing I've ever felt.

  • @Daniel-S1
    @Daniel-S1 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks.

  • @jeremytoms5163
    @jeremytoms5163 Рік тому +2

    Seen badgers trotting up the road I live on , at night time. They seem to have a route between the two woods that border the local roads. Luckily, it’s very quiet around here at nighttime , which is probably why they’ve stayed around here. Just wish they’d leave my front lawn alone.
    Seems that like foxes they’ve worked out how to co-exist with humans and our towns.

  • @raymondpenalver7095
    @raymondpenalver7095 2 роки тому

    As always thanks for the great informative video, I always lean somthing new from you and always a joy to watch .

  • @OspreyFlyer
    @OspreyFlyer 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for posting! ♥️👍

  • @mohamedabdelkader8665
    @mohamedabdelkader8665 2 роки тому

    Awesome.

  • @NevD987
    @NevD987 2 роки тому +8

    They should farm less cattle rather than cull badgers…

    • @SuperRichie200
      @SuperRichie200 2 роки тому

      Are you a vegetarian.

    • @buddharuci2701
      @buddharuci2701 2 роки тому

      If I weren’t in such august, polite company here, I would add that perhaps culling people might be the answer. Just my most humble opinion, of course. Loved learning a lot about badgers.

    • @alastairatcheson1407
      @alastairatcheson1407 9 місяців тому

      As a dairy farmer, why?

  • @Bertil_Lundin
    @Bertil_Lundin 2 роки тому

    Thanks for sharing Liam! Interesting as always. Have a good day my friend! // Bertil.

  • @Guanjyn
    @Guanjyn Рік тому +2

    I hope to see them around when I eventually move to Oxfordshire.

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  Рік тому +1

      I think they're fairly common that way, so good luck!

  • @ikillyou121
    @ikillyou121 9 місяців тому +2

    Quite sad. Despite living in the UK all my life, I've never seen a badger in-person. I've seen deer, hedgehogs and foxes out on my trails and would love to be able to see one at some point.

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  9 місяців тому

      You definitely need to be in the right place at the right time for badgers. They are much shyer than a lot of other wildlife and have such great hearing and sense of smell that they usually disappear before they are seen. Good luck, I hope one day you manage to see one.

  • @antonellamenegatti9158
    @antonellamenegatti9158 2 роки тому +1

    very interesting, thanks, 👍🙋

  • @robjeavons5982
    @robjeavons5982 2 роки тому

    Thanks liam great content

  • @nervo6321
    @nervo6321 2 роки тому +2

    As a trucker it breaks my heart how many i see killed by vehicles.

  • @alice86142
    @alice86142 2 роки тому +1

    I'm not sure where you're located, but in my many years living between London and Kent, I've never seen a badger. A few dead ones by the sides of roads. I'd love nothing more than to see a live one, just once in my lifetime...

    • @chrisstephens6673
      @chrisstephens6673 Рік тому +1

      I live in the leafy suburbs of NW London and they are here, in fact I have been able to hand feed them for over a dozen years. There are a few videos on my channel, but not good quality due to low light levels as they still prefer the shadows. Put peanuts out regularly and you never know what might find them. If you see one keep very still and quiet, they spook easily.

    • @lucyobrien1617
      @lucyobrien1617 Рік тому

      Hi! Do you think it would be worth putting trail cameras in my garden every night. I always give up after a while. Nothing ever eats the peanuts 😔

    • @saudade2745
      @saudade2745 10 місяців тому

      Go to quiet woodland, find a set, wait til dark. Drink tea and smoke herb with the Badgers.

  • @sandywatt1971
    @sandywatt1971 2 роки тому

    Absolutely nothing compares to wild camping, and hearing their screams outside your tent!

  • @jayleigh4642
    @jayleigh4642 2 роки тому

    Really enjoyed this one Liam, I live very rural and often hope to see a badger but in seven years no luck yet. I’ll just keep checking the cctv 😂😂😂
    But thank you so much loving this channel.

  • @drinkerofmonsterenergy5008
    @drinkerofmonsterenergy5008 2 роки тому +1

    Someone may be replacing David Attenborough . I could listen to this man talk for hours on wildlife!

  • @entropy444
    @entropy444 2 роки тому

    Lovely footage, really nice to see them dootering about and acting as if noones watching.

  • @gingerninjawhinger9986
    @gingerninjawhinger9986 2 роки тому

    Another great and informative video, Liam! 👍 I didn't know that Badgers eat Hedgehogs... 🦡 🦔

  • @johnklockyer
    @johnklockyer 9 місяців тому +1

    I love badgers ❤️

  • @andyalder7910
    @andyalder7910 2 роки тому

    One dug up a bumble bee nest in my garden, bad news or the bees but at least it means the local badger population is healthy.

  • @davidc3808
    @davidc3808 2 роки тому

    Great video. Keep them coming.

  • @lindajones7219
    @lindajones7219 Рік тому +1

    Magnificent animals beautiful to look at . I have one crossing in front of my house every night and give him ,her a tit bit .
    However no mention about the fact they carry spread TB tuberculosis to Cattle .
    A friend of mine near Devon had 265 Young growing Cattle for meat consumption and 130 milking cows .
    all Cattle in the UK and EU have to have Tuberculin tests . She had hers tested Week later ONE cow was positive with TB . Guess what she had to have every single cow on her land destroyed.
    Despite the fact her and her husband had Put wire all around the fields where the cattle were grazing sunk two half feet deep .
    But they managed to get in .
    There Is a real problem with Badgers in that area ,
    The loss to them was immense . They still had to pay for the winter food for cattle and straw hay they need .
    They are now thinking of going into pigs , but the market is a nightmare when it comes to raising pigs for profit .
    Their farm has been in their family for just over 293 years . and they are terrified of being the couple who had to sell out .
    Of course we do not want badgers culled as they were but the government should be doing much much more to help farmers and do something about the problem of the Dreaded TB

  • @jacknapier7036
    @jacknapier7036 Рік тому

    Sweet

  • @StephenSmith-ge1qf
    @StephenSmith-ge1qf 2 роки тому +1

    Very pretty but out of favour with me as they dig up my vegetables. I now have to grow everything under nets!

  • @MrJimmy527
    @MrJimmy527 Рік тому

    The stork could then make his or her delivery to me where he or she reached Reno, Nevada where my family and I lived where the stork delivered those baby badgers like between Hufflepuff from Harry Potter and Gravity Badgers on the front porch at my house on 11030 Skylight Ct., so when I woke up in the middle of the night, I got off the bed, turned on the lights, went downstairs, got the front door, opened it, looked at the front porch, picked up the bag, opened it and found the baby badgers if I took them in the house and upstairs to my room and put them in the cradle in my room.

  • @IrishWildlifeWatch
    @IrishWildlifeWatch 2 роки тому +1

    Great video!

  • @smokie837
    @smokie837 Рік тому +1

    I've touched a lot of badgers by creeping up on them, their fur is quite rough, they jump and give me a look before running away at walk speed lol. Everyone says they're violent but I have no reason to believe that.

  • @imitchell6663
    @imitchell6663 Рік тому +1

    My family name is after badgers! Small and volatile lol

  • @user-hf6vy8xc4i
    @user-hf6vy8xc4i 2 роки тому +2

    Would love to see a goldfinch video too 👌

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому

      They're on my list for future videos. I'm not sure how much footage is available of their nests though so I will have to see. Cheers

    • @user-hf6vy8xc4i
      @user-hf6vy8xc4i 2 роки тому +1

      @@AShotOfWildlife that would be awesome. I’ve helped rehabilitate a number of nestlings in the past and have some footage of their release if you would like?

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому

      @@user-hf6vy8xc4i thanks, thats very kind. I will see what footage is available of them truly in the wild and then get back in touch if your footage would come in handy.

  • @lucyobrien1617
    @lucyobrien1617 Рік тому +1

    Unfortunately I've barely ever seen a badger (Alive that is). Believe I saw one for the first time ever two weeks back around midnight, but I can't be 100% sure. I am always trying to get badgers in the garden and I always put trail cameras out but no badgers yet. 😭😭

  • @PoisonelleMisty4311
    @PoisonelleMisty4311 Рік тому +1

    Badgers dig up graves and leave human remains around cemetery. Badgers are wreaking havoc in a medieval churchyard by digging up centuries-old graves and unearthing human bones, but locals are effectively powerless to stop them. Yes, they will stalk humans. They are aggressive animals but they don't go looking for trouble. “It's heartbreaking anyway, but to then find out there's badgers digging the place up is just too much for the mind.

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  Рік тому +1

      Badgers do not stalk humans. There has never been an instance of a badger going out of its way to attack a person and the only reason they dig up graves is because they are digging a home.

    • @PoisonelleMisty4311
      @PoisonelleMisty4311 Рік тому +2

      @@AShotOfWildlife The badger is commonly referred to in Welsh as a mochyn daear ('earth pig'). The species likely evolved from the Chinese Meles thorali of the early Pleistocene. There are known cases of badgers burying family members after their death. The Celts had a number of superstitions when it came to badgers. Many ranchers tend to dislike badgers, because they dig holes that can cause injuries to cattle. Badgers are digging up the bones of dead people at a Birmingham cemetery. European badgers will eat hedgehogs if they’re hungry enough. Badgers also eat the carcasses of dead animals. Badgers were also eaten in Britain during World War II and the 1950s. Badgers are among the most important carnivores in the grassland ecosystem. They prey on mice, voles, gophers, rabbits and insects , badgers keep other populations in check. Most authors have assumed that badgers possess monochromatic vision, that is, they lack the ability to see colours. Thanks to Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, and their supporters like you, badgers have a wilder future. 🙏🙏🌻🌻💚💚

    • @Bignfluffy
      @Bignfluffy Рік тому +2

      @@PoisonelleMisty4311 wrong wrong and wrong

  • @user-yx7dp2pl8t
    @user-yx7dp2pl8t 2 роки тому +1

    Badger are the best and deserve to be free!

  • @The_Angry_Bacon
    @The_Angry_Bacon 10 місяців тому

    this actually helped me with my hw, thanks!

  • @adambaird5981
    @adambaird5981 Рік тому

    So I got up at 4am the morning and drove up the fields to drive cows in fr milking and seen something moving in the distance and at first I thought it was a cat but as I got closer I realised it was a badgar and rather than running away it move very slowly so I decided to watch some UA-cam videos about them this guy knows his stuff

  • @joyhands8992
    @joyhands8992 2 роки тому +7

    Badgers do not have TB I cared for badgers for thirty years. My last bottle fed cub was my 104th. We were also invited by the Council of Europe to go to the Bern Convention in Strasbourg concerning the calling of the badgers. There were 35 counties present and apart from the UK all the countries voted to stop the culling here. Most of them said the fault was in bad husbandry concerning the cattle. and nothing to do with any wildlife. Also, badgers are foragers and not hunters.

  • @michaelarchangel1163
    @michaelarchangel1163 2 роки тому +1

    I didn't hear any more of the once reported news that badgers were to be given chocolate, dosed with innoculation meds, to alleviate the TB issue.

  • @jonathanroberts-bj7yl
    @jonathanroberts-bj7yl Місяць тому +1

    Amazing how they survived here and beavers didn’t.

  • @randomvideosforyou1190
    @randomvideosforyou1190 10 місяців тому

    I only learned one thing about badgers in experience is they have very tough pelts
    I skinned them (already dead from roadkill) before and it’s tough skin led to me failing in many attempts to skin them

  • @TheCountrysideChannel
    @TheCountrysideChannel Рік тому +1

    I caught a few of them on my trail cams but its always at nights. I always wonder how there are so many videos with them walking about in the day when they are nocturnal

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  Рік тому +1

      Badgers do often venture out in the late evening and return to their setts after sunrise, especially in the summer when the night time isnt long enough for them to find all the food they need etc. I'm hoping to get some daylight footage myself later this year!

    • @TheCountrysideChannel
      @TheCountrysideChannel Рік тому +1

      @@AShotOfWildlife ok mate, thanks for replying

  • @BorisKOUKA
    @BorisKOUKA Рік тому

    BADgers are good for other mammal or insect who use their abandoned tunnel as house

  • @lucyobrien1617
    @lucyobrien1617 Рік тому +1

    However, that print you showed is identical to the print I found In the front garden three months back. It had very long claws. I wonder?

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  Рік тому

      Hmm, perhaps it was one. You'll have to keep checking with the camera traps and keep your fingers crossed. Let me know if you have any luck

  • @DaikaSama
    @DaikaSama 10 місяців тому

    I was walking from school one day and saw a dead badger, i was sad but happy that i got to see a badger upclose, but sad it wasnt alive

  • @andymurph3394
    @andymurph3394 Рік тому +1

    I once work in a hotel that was in countryside outside the hotel garden it was full of badgers. I was told always bring a stick in case I saw one them in the morning they would bite and wait till they heard your bone crack before they let go I saw plenty of them over the years did like them. Now I have very cute hedgehogs that come to my garden so I certainly Don't want to see them. Hedgehogs are much nicer

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  Рік тому +1

      Did you ever actually see one or hear of one attempting to bite anyone? I've never heard of it except where someone tried to handle an injured one. Good work on the hedgehogs though, they need all the help they can get.

  • @martin4787
    @martin4787 2 роки тому +1

    I like badgers and unfortunately they do spread Bovine TB.

  • @monkehbitch
    @monkehbitch 2 роки тому +1

    Mushroom, mushroom!

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому +1

      I wondered if anyone would say this lol

    • @monkehbitch
      @monkehbitch 2 роки тому

      @@AShotOfWildlife It just *needed* to be done! Haha! You should've slipped some subtle mushrooms or snakes in!

  • @chrish8871
    @chrish8871 Рік тому +1

    Hi Thankyou for your video ❤don’t read further if attached emotionally but……
    …. does anyone know why a badger would quite literally charge at a moving car? I get so upset when I see them at the roadside but if this is normal somehow it’s perhaps not surprising. It was dark 4am early this month so perhaps mating season and hyped up? It was not cornered and could have fled in any direction, but no, like a bull with horns ran and turned into the car as if a bull with horns. I fear there may have be something wrong with it. Appologies please advise or ask for this to be removed and I will of course oblige I don’t want to upset anyone else 😢

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  Рік тому

      Hmm, that is very interesting. Perhaps it had already been injured and wasnt thinking properly, maybe it had cubs nearby and was trying to defend them or it could have been something else. Thanks for sharing the story.

  • @RUBBER_BULLET
    @RUBBER_BULLET 2 роки тому

    4:49

  • @vitalic_drms
    @vitalic_drms 2 роки тому

    they are always badgering the witness

  • @caesar7734
    @caesar7734 2 роки тому +1

    2:20 That rabbit barely escaped death

    • @AShotOfWildlife
      @AShotOfWildlife  2 роки тому

      I don't know, I think the rabbit would've outrank it easily. I don't know how often they would try to catch a healthy rabbit to be honest.

  • @colinc.8742
    @colinc.8742 2 роки тому +1

    Let me tell you something about Badgers. An old badger will kill a small lamb, bet you don’t know that.(retired Exmoor sheep farmer)

    • @peterkeefe3227
      @peterkeefe3227 2 роки тому

      Man slaughters thousands of lambs every year. Me thinks we should to cull the farmers instead.

  • @Lukex29
    @Lukex29 Рік тому

    Nice vid. Are they related to wolverines or honey badgers? And do they share the same tenacious personality trait?

    • @Bignfluffy
      @Bignfluffy 11 місяців тому

      Yes badgers are related to wolverines

  • @markharrisllb
    @markharrisllb 2 роки тому

    Sadly the only badgers I’ve seen have been 'road kill', and that’s in different areas than Central Lancs where I live.

  • @Olleetheowl
    @Olleetheowl 2 роки тому +7

    Don’t get me started on “The Cull” . Clean shots hardly ever happen , and a wounded badger is left to die in agony, often of septicaemia. Morally reprehensible. Scientifically dubious, unsustainable. Ineffective , fiscally inefficient and that’s just it’s good points

  • @Damocles16
    @Damocles16 Рік тому

    If you give them a Honney stone, they evolve into...

  • @vetworker
    @vetworker 2 роки тому +1

    I am lucky enough to see these beautiful animals on a regular basis although they are rather keen on dining out on my chickens, hence why I now lock my chickens away 🦡

  • @boinknook
    @boinknook Рік тому

    Those beautiful stripes!🦓

  • @photosbyjb007
    @photosbyjb007 2 роки тому

    I have a pair that visit for cat biscuits 🍪

  • @clintonclintoff3623
    @clintonclintoff3623 2 роки тому +1

    First!

  • @358life6
    @358life6 Рік тому

    It's a shame there aren't any larger predators to control their numbers

    • @358life6
      @358life6 Рік тому +1

      If you look at hedgehog numbers since the ban on hunting badgers in the uk you'll see a interesting trend, but I've done my bit over the years to reduce the number of badgers killing hedgehogs, by holding weekly seminars around our local badger sets to promote the adoption of veganism among their numbers.

  • @MisfitsFiendClub138
    @MisfitsFiendClub138 4 місяці тому

    I miss Breaking Bad 😢

  • @horsewings3561
    @horsewings3561 Рік тому

    Hufflepuff brought me here.