Badgers & Unknown Wildlife

Ever since we have lived in this house we have been, periodically, visited by badgers.   Only very occasionally do we see them, or hear them.   Sometimes late at night we hear a crunch on the gravel and looking out we see one trotting up the road, not far away.   

However, just occasionally they make themselves better know.   I have to say that I neither love nor hate them.   They are wildlife and they were probably walking this way a long time before these houses were built.   They eat slugs apparently, which I kind of like, but then they also eat frogs, and I like frogs.   It's a bitter sweet relationship.

A while back we laid a new pathway and worked hard to get it looking just right.  We were really pleased with ourselves!

In the night, however, we were awoken by the most terrible noise and we went to investigate.

Inadvertently, we had sealed off one of the Badgers' exits and they weren't happy at all.

When badgers decide on a route, they stick to it.   

We had no choice but to leave their exit route open, and we cut a piece of gate out to make just enough space for them to squeeze through.  :-). Now they are happy, our nights are once more peaceful, and our pathway remains intact!

We also have other signs of nocturnal visitors to the garden.  

We will have to find out what is making these holes.  Maybe badgers?   Maybe hedgehogs?  They certainly like to make holes in the lawn!