Animal of the Year

Image from webcam captured by  Fleur, LK forum
Translation Liis

Badger     Mäger       Meles meles

The openings of the badger sett towards the webcam are becoming overgrown with grass but the sett has not been abandoned. In summer new den openings are diligently dug out and the network of burrows is enlarged. So it is too with the sett that we watch, where we had to move the camera to the other side. The bottom image gives an idea of where the camera is installed.

Text Triin Leetmaa

Translation Liis

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I was asked to play child-minder to a seven-year-old chit of a girl. We watched multifilms and talked for at bit but as sunset approached we went into the forest for adventures. We walked and climbed in the trees when I suddenly noticed that we had reached the badger castle. I tried to explani what kind of place this was when I was suddenly told that someone had looked out of the mouth of the den opening that we were standing beside. With a slight smile I tried to find out what the creature looked like. The reply was very concrete: ”White and some black too!“  Was it the imagination of the child or did the badger really greet its visitors? It did make me a little envious.