This is another outlier sett, 200m from the main sett but in the opposite direction from last time. I remember it being active about 10 years ago before falling into disuse for a few years. There have been signs of activity over the past couple of years so it was time to have another look with the cameras.
When a badger gets up in the evening the first thing to do is have a good sniff to see if it safe to come out. If there is a strange box glowing red nearby, that needs a sniff as well.
The badgers seem curious about the camera rather than alarmed, even though it must smell strongly of human. The next thing to do is have a good scratch.
After that it is time to fetch in some fresh bedding.
When all that is done the rest of the night can be spent foraging and socialising. There are at least three badgers in this sett. One of them is smaller and seems playful, or perhaps a bit daft, so I wonder if this is the "naughty" cub from the main sett who was so entertaining in the spring. If so, the twins have now split up because I think one was also in the other sett I recorded a couple of weeks ago.
Here two badgers are sniffing out the peanuts. It is not very exciting to watch but that's what they do for most of the night. This is the 2019 low-glow camera with a +0.5 dioptre lens, with a noticeably better image quality. And, as you can hear, it was a windy night and the camera support was a bit wobbly but the image stabilisation in iMovie has done a brilliant job.
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