Animal of the Year

The middle of summer has passed. The closer to autumn, the more fruits are ripe, or ripening, in nature. It is a good time for a badger to start preparing for winter. Among important tasks the duty to fatten up one’s body has moved into the foreground.

Posted by the Animal of the Year team 08.08.2016

How the badger’s home might look below ground only the badger itself knows; hunters who have excavated badger burrows might have an idea. The latter experiences are mostly from the time when raccoon dog skins were still highly valued.

Posted by the Animal of the Year team

Tuesday night at 22:02. The badger sniffs the air carefully at the entrance before leaving, and only then chooses the path, depending on the wind direction so that smells reach its nose better. Badgers have a very good sense of smell. 
Video clip recorded by  Fleur from the badger camera forum.
 

A roe deer came to pick mushrooms at the badger sett.

Information from the Animal of the Year team 30.07.2016

Since the start of the camera at the end of last year the badger sett has been visited twice by roe deer. Both occasions have been surprising and caused raised eyebrows. 

In the sixth minute (6.20) pig-like snorts are audible in the video. The badger has a voice! Although the badgers in many of Looduskalender’s videos are quite silent they actually are able to produce quite varying sounds. In the video here we hear sounds of romping.
The video from the trail camera was assembled by  Peeter Anijalg.

Information from the Animal of the Year team 30.07.2016.

Information from the Animal of the Year team

Again a week without badgers. There was no sign of them at the sett nor at the second camera nearby placed at the burrows. But despite the absence of our main hero, life in the forest was brisk.