Hi thanks for your comment , but sorry i dont know the answer to your question my answer would be the youngster is being shown who the boss is, it needs to be told its rank in the family, but it could also be sexual sorry i cant be more definite.
They can be very gentle, like when they take a single raisin ftom between finger and thumb but if a stranger badger turns up for food they can get noisy and " boisterous "! This was meant as a general comment not a reply but I couldn't be bothered to rewrite it.😉
I have had to move my trail cams from the Badger set its to overgrown ,so i moved my cams into some local woodland very pleased with the Pine Martin activity there is also a stream runs through the area used to be good for Otters but no luck there as yet maybe next week ,many thanks for your comment
@@johnmoir8040 I'd say "like" is a diabolical understatement in this case my friend LOL I stumbled upon UK's badger cull by pure coincidence and instantly became an anti-cull. Hell, I'm not even British.
Hi Chris, it certainly looks awkward, .the Badgers at the set i"m monitoring have a ready supply of bedding close by so it is easy for them to collect some Badgers are not so lucky and have quite a long haul when it comes to bedding change time, the Badgers at this set have a big expansion going on at least 2 new entrances they spend most of there waking time digging out and adding new bedding good to watch
@@johnmoir8040 Bedding is a little lacking here so I buy packs of straw/hay from pets at home and leave clumps of it near the entrance for them. Maybe it is not as nice as fresh but every little helps.
@@johnmoir8040 that is very sad indeed. I'm not sure we had any last year but 2 or 3 this, as I said it is hard to tell them from mum. Their individual behaviour is the only way I can tell for sure. When the cubs arrive on the terrace where I feed them I know one prefers cashew nuts while another loves chopped Brazils and let's me stroke her while she stands on my knee. Cute and fluffy they are not despite the look they have really coarse fur.
@@johnmoir8040 They have everything. Round, chubby, fluffy, cute, shy & fierce at the same time, and has a long sad history of persecuttion by human. They are my most beloved animal on the planet.
Great to see them, mine came out about 5 or 6 weeks ago and one of them now comes up to me for it's usual food and now a " deep fur massage ", remarkably coarse fur they have even though they look fluffy.
Hi Chris ,A bit of a wrong spy here this video was of last years cubs ,i am still waiting for this years to appear ,the weather has not been great up here in North East Scotland even some sleet showers last week dont know if thats the reason they are a bit later this year looks like the weather is going to improve next week a high pressure system is moving in hope that they might appear then, glad to read your youngsters are doing well.
@@johnmoir8040I just saw the video was posted 2 months ago and thouht you beat mine by a couple of weeks. The weather down here in the leafy suburbs of NW London NW London has been mild all winter and the young were quite early. Mine are now almost as big as mum already.
There is not much natural bedding in my garden so i buy hay from pets at home and put it near their sett, it soon disappears. I note from other comments you haven't had any young yet, i know mine were early but its now 4 weeks since they joined mum on my terrace for food. They are already used to me, take food from the hand and one lets me stroke it. I hope you have good news soon.
Hi many thanks for your comment i like your purchase of straw for bedding no Badgers in my garden but i do have access to a set on some private land a nice quiet setting i have just checked my memory cards for this week still no cubs in sight ,weather has been extra cold and wet so maybe thats delayed things a bit next weeks card check may be get some, i think the weather is going to warm up a bit .
@@johnmoir8040 I think " my" early cubs is down to a very mild winter down here in the leafy suburbs of NW London, there wasn't a single day when the clan didn't come out for food. I do have the advantage that the entrance to the sett is at the far end of the garden where there is little disturbance from us or our neighbours, who seem to have no idea that they are about. We know they feed the local foxes but have never mentioned badgers and the badgers have been about for 15 years, that we know about.
Aren't they cute, last years brood I expect. One year we had four babes, and i had ggem standing in a row being hand fed, just wish i had been able to film it.The ones in my garden right now are filthy, obviously grubbing for worms in the wet ground.
Hi Chris thanks for your comment yes they are from last years brood soon be time for this years how time flies i dont have the luxury of Badgers in our garden but i do have access to a nice secluded set free from human intrusion only wayward sheep sometimes usually about four but they are no problem
@@johnmoir8040 I too am waiting for this year's crop, only two last year that I noticed. I think we have at least 3 adult females, so the odds are good. Mine are the new breed of urban badger, living in the leafy suburbs of NW London. They are secretive but open to human interaction, if bribed with the right food, but most neighbours have no idea they are about. I had one eating nuts from each of my hands last night, and one of them let me stroke her neck while she ate. She appeared to be very hungry, not a novelty with badgers who tend to be greedy eaters, so may have been distracted enough by Morrisons finest chunky mixed nuts😉 If we do have some babies this year I shall do my best to resist the urge to kidnap one of them, even though the urge is strong.!😇
Don't kidnap the badger cubs 😂but try to get some videos of them eating the luxury mixed nuts 🤣I laughed at your video of the picky badger selecting all the Brazil Nuts 🤣@@chrisstephens6673
