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[London Best]

I once had a man tell me he had never seen a badger, and how rare they were. I could show him three occupied sets within less than 500 yards of his house.

[oowee]

1 hour ago, London Best said:

I once had a man tell me he had never seen a badger, and how rare they were. I could show him three occupied sets within less than 500 yards of his house.

Very rare here. 

[henry d]

Rare here too. As were magpies until recently 🙄

[Vince Green]

5 hours ago, London Best said:

I once had a man tell me he had never seen a badger, and how rare they were. I could show him three occupied sets within less than 500 yards of his house.

Badgers are another creature that are becoming urbanised

[walshie]

5 hours ago, London Best said:

I once had a man tell me he had never seen a badger, and how rare they were. I could show him three occupied sets within less than 500 yards of his house.

I'd never seen a badger till we moved here. Now they are more common than foxes. 

[discobob]

I have only ever seen one live badger which came out of a hedgerow on a narrow lane by Exeter when I was driving to a farm B&B while working down there in the early hours of the morning. I thought it was an old fella however I saw a program the other week which makes me think it was an albino.  I stopped and let it past.

Saying that, I do know that there are at least two badger sets within spitting distance of our house - just never seen them although our next-door but one (still over a hundred meters away) has them on their land regularly.