It comes every night to hoover/vacuum up all th e dropped peanuts from the bird feeder, think it's a young male not quite full grown yet, comes right up to the patio doors so nose to nose about 10" away
Very cool to have something so wild and large that close.
Do they like mash potato only reference I have is Bodger the Badger from kids TV.
We named him Bodger in homage to the above
according to farmers you'll be hacking up a lung and be a tb infected wreck within minutes now.
In the meantime - sounds cool.
Does it run stans tubeless?
"Does it run stans tubeless?"
that's just cruel although the concorde picture was a favourite of mine.
comes right up to the patio doors so nose to nose about 10" away
You are indeed lucky. They are usually so shy - unsurprising considering all the nasty things that have been done to them over time (and are still done in my neck of the woods - attacked with dogs, crucified, etc)
Cool - time to take some pics (without flash, don't want to scare it) if you can
one quite literally stepped out in front of me last week on our night ride. i was doing about 25mph at the time.
the badger in bodger [i][b]AND[/b][/i] badger was called badger! 8)
Oh thanks tomthumb your right it was awhile ago I last watched it, can't change his name now, he might develop a complex.
Dogfood would probably be better for it, but they will take whats going (including, I am fairly sure one of my cats).
It is very cool you get to see one up close, I have only really seen them either as roadkill, or crossing the road at night.
I had one run out in front of me the other week. Despite my lights it just stood there, I didn't know what to do so I spoke to it "Please get out of the way Mr Badger". It took one look and trotted off.
They're sturdy creatures, I'd rather not ride into one lest I make it angry.
take some pics (without flash, don't want to scare it
I refute any allegation regarding myself and badgers.
leave some badger beer out for him...
Oh yes you are lucky.
We had one in the garden digging great chunks out of the lawn, so we had to secure the fence so he couldn't get in again. However I never got to see it ( too dark). He's still around 'cos the sett is just across the road.
I hit a badger a few weeks ago on a night ride, really scared me. Was riding down this farm track, next minute rustle, rustle from the hedge and the feeling of fur agains't my leg. The other guys in my group up ahead had to take major swerving action to avoid it.
A mate had a problem with a badger a few years ago.
He didn't shut his porch door properly, a badger got into the porch and somehow managed to shut the door behind it so it was trapped in the 3ft square porch...
Which wouldn't really have been a problem if his 2 cats hadn't lived in the porch as well (hence the ajar door) and had no way out or no raised furniture to jump onto to escape the trapped and angry badger. Eventually he heard the racket which was being made, went down and thinking he was being burgled yanked open the door, slamming it again fairly quickly!
It took him ages to figure out how to get the badger out without it attacking him.
Had one that came into the garden every night about 6 months ago. Dug bl**dy great holes all over the place until I [ahem] persuaded it that the field opposite was a better proposition.
Thankfully it took the hint, not sure I'd want one as a regular visitor again.
Look nice though and I always feel sad when I see one beside the road.
Sharkbait _ I presume you mean 'dead' beside the road?
The corpses don't half pong. If out in the countryside you always know before you come across it dead on a verge.
our local badger is called Hinault 😀
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I presume you mean 'dead' beside the road?
Personally, I also find it sad when they are just sleeping beside the road.
Haven't those poor little souls got a home/set to go to ? 😐
IvanDobski, what on earth happened to the cats?