Does that camera do video too? Just don't try to direct them, they resent that and can be hazardous to your health. :eek:

Yes, it also does video and time lapse. I'll probably have a go at video in a few days time when I hope to have a better understanding of using it for stills.

After I posted the previous two images I placed the camera in the front garden with a switch off time of 0330.
There is a distinct track on the lawn which could only have been made by a Badger so I placed the camera as best I could in relation to that track.
Results aren't brilliant, I have to say, but they give me something to work on.

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Badgers are very territorial and boundaries are often marked by linear features such as hedges, field edges, ditches etc. and I think we might straddle two territories.
Those visiting the back garden arrive from the direction of the stream at the bottom of the garden and return on the same path. I'm pretty sure that they never venture out to the front.
The Badger in the above image is a hefty looking chap and I don't believe him to be one of the back garden regulars.

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There isn't exactly a shortage of foxes around here so I'm not surprised that this fellow turned up.

I'll have another try tonight and experiment with the placing of the camera in the hope of better results.
With luck the snow should have thawed by then as well.
I don't know if that affects infra red photography in any way but given the temperature difference between surface and subject I'd be surprised if it didn't.

Incidentally, the crude cropping is due to neighbour privacy concerns. I thought it might be best if I included them out. :)

Great work, Carruthers!

Awesome! Now you've got me thinking...

that's really cool! I don't think I've ever seen a badger in person in the wild.

Excellent, you live in a zoo. :thumb:

Great job, Carruthers! You certainly have quite a menagerie in your garden. I'd be quite nervous having such critters roaming around my yard - the raccoons and 'possums I see around here got nothin' on a badger!

:eek:

Ain't nothing got something on a badger.

Badgers will, as a rule, avoid confrontation. Once I went out into the back garden and disturbed one who disappeared at a rate of knots.
However, when cornered they'll stand their ground fiercely and are well worth avoiding in those circumstances.
They are now protected by law but badger baiting was once a legal savagery. It probably still goes on in out of the way places.

I've just brought the camera in and downloaded the photos.
It's a bit of a mixed bunch although there are several images of two badgers feeding on the peanuts I left out.
This is about the best of the whole lot although it is rather spoiled by the fact that I was shining a torch from indoors at the time.

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I have had great fun with a couple of "Wildview" cameras over the past several years here in Northern California.
They are like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, never knowing what will show up.
Aside from my own housecats and bovines I have pictures of foxes, raccoons, possums, skunks, jackrabbits, deer, coyotes, neighbors' goats, cats and dogs, vultures, one hawk and a muskrat.
Possibilities for someday are ring-tailed cat, porcupine, elk and otter.
The nearest badger sett is in the next county south.
Last night, in spite of some serious left-overs chumming, I only got my cat Ok at 03:18.

I found one of many Bruce's "Badger, mushroom" video":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6CDFn2i3I

I never saw it before and doubt I will again.

Sorry to repeat, or really supplement, fargon's post, but those video links don't work on Internet Explorer and I didn't open Google Chrome this morning.

WOW, Anglerfish in the wild... definitely embiggen.

Key word easily overlooked

Pair

Just as he is easily overlooked


AMAZING video

Well, I've never actually attached myself to a female...













I've tried awfully damned hard, though.:)

I did see some dogs one time that were attached...

...til the fire dept came and put water on 'em.

No matter how many times I see this it fascinates me.

Due to a marked lack of bison, elk, grizzly bears and timber wolves in this part of the world, we have to make do with foxes and badgers.

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Not the sharpest of images but at least it shows that foxes and badgers generally tolerate one another....

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You've been missed, sir.

Brers Badger and Fox...:thumb:

So you've been voyeuring furries... kinky. :haha:

Thank you, Mr G! :thumb:

It's quite legal as long as you post the required notice.

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They haven't complained so far. ;)

Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom MUSHROOM!

SNEK!!!

Found this big ox beetle on the patio. Apparently not that exotic but pretty damn big for a bug around here. In the past I've only found them dead in the pool skimmer so nice to find this lady (the male has 3 horns) alive and eager to be released back into the yard.

So, as in hoomans, the male is the hornier of the two?





TIHAW, try the bass.

Substantial meal.

Ontario argument...

The latest wildlife to appear in my neighborhood is ducks. Ducks on the neighborhood soccer field, which for the last several days has been a huge 2 inch deep pond.

Duck/Goose poop is nasty stuff. :greenface

Came home from running errands yesterday, to find a mama deer and her two youngsters lounging in the grass of my front lawn, having a little lay down under the big apple tree.

Of course, they ran off before I could get a pic . . .:rolleyes:

I find deer in the yard quite often. When I pull in the driveway and stop they give me a casual glance, but when I open the car door they split quickly.:bolt:

You say...:eyebrow:

Yeah, sure. They were right thar, under y'apple tree...

Right behind the Bigfoot.

Yeahyeah, suresure.:p:

Helping wildlife with mascara wands...

Two or three weeks ago my neighbour looked out on to her back lawn to see a vixen and six cubs enjoying the sunshine.
I just missed seeing them as I was out treading the well worn path from the pharmacy with another of Dad's prescriptions.
However, it seems that we have inherited at least three of the litter.
On the other hand, it could be a completely different bunch. Who knows?
FWIW, they put in an appearance last night not many minutes after I had set up the camera.

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You live in the wild. :D

Somewhat fitting as I am the original wild child. ;)

Pretty cool C!

A few minutes after the above image was taken, a badger wandered around the corner.
Badgers and foxes seem to get on reasonably well with one another, but this cub seems a bit wary. I wonder where the other two are?

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Foxes and rabbits are moving into DC, too. I never would have expected my parents to need a rabbit-proof fence for their garden.

We need more wolves and Pumas. ;)

I saw a fox this morning by the dumpster, he calmly walked across the street and vanished between the buildings.

The last fox I saw was also right in town. It was pretty funny, too.

I was coming home in the wee hours, came to the last intersection, and was slowing for the stop sign when I heard a woman scream. I asked myself "Self," that's what I call m'self, "WTF was that?!" Then she screamed again.

I determined to make turn around that block to see if I could see WTF, man.

When I turned, my headlights swept across a large back yard, and there, about twenty feet off the road, was a sitting dog. People, believe me when I tell you that this was the most knackered, worn out, used up dog that ever lived. I was worried about this animal on first sight, it looked that bad.

As I pondered this situation I was still easing through the intersection, when in the continuing sweep of the headlights, I saw a standing red fox. Right as my lights swept across it the fox threw back its head and screamed like a woman.

While grinning like the sly fox it was.

And then the scene was complete for me. The dog was chasing the fox. And the fox had been toying with the dog the entire time, knowing the dog was too big and too slow to be any threat to the fox, and the fox had been playing the dog all along.

And the dog, well, I'm not sure he ever dogged again. I bet he had to give up his card, too.

Fight! Fight!

I went out to lock up the chickens last night and found a mostly empty coop, a dead hen, and a racoon. I gave him the opportunity to walk away but in the end had to get all 2nd Amendmenty on him.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. :cool::cool:

I cannot find a way to stop that motherfucking video.

DON'T START THAT VIDEO.

PLEASE KILL THAT MOTHERFUCKER WITH FIRE!!!!!

Make a hat. Maybe they'll write songs about ya. Maybe ya get a tv show.

I didn't think of that, damnit reduce reuse recycle...

In the UK we're not blessed with the wide variety of wild mammals that inhabit North America.
That said, there are occasional sightings of big cats. They tend to be spotted by patrons of the local pub on their way home at about 2300 suitably fortified by several pints of Stench & Dredge's Old Peculier.
So, all I can offer you are Badgers. Having posted similar images before, they are probably of little interest but it's the fact that we now have three of them turning up at once that has prompted me to post.

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Re-hide that key to the backdoor. They'll be Netflixing and chilling in ya living room before ya know it.

They're cool, why are they coming around, must be something to eat?

They forage for worms much of the time but they're opportunist feeders so will eat snails, slugs, berries, grain and nuts among other things.
I put out plentiful supplies of peanuts for them as they are a proven favourite.
There are two Badgers on the front lawn as I type this. They're just feet away.
I've got the camera set up in the back garden and no doubt they'll put in an appearance there later.

Make sure they aren't salted peanuts or they'll be stealing your beer. :D

Carruthers, Master Badger Baiter.

Find the toad! (the real one not the word)

He's right by the hose.

don't know why the pic flipped, but even sideways you have good eyes...