In summer I spend my evenings watching badgers at a sett near my home on the Yorkshire Wolds and I've learned a lot about them. It is one of the biggest badger setts in the area I've counted 11 badgers here before and there is a great spot on the opposite side of the valley to sit and watch.

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Clean & tidy

Badgers are tidy animals. They regularly change the bedding in their underground setts, travelling short distances to gather fresh straw and then dragging it back down into their chambers. Its quite amusing watching them shuffle down backwards, their front paws loaded with grasses.

Family structures

Badgers have very clear family structures. There is a dominant male boar and dominant female sow and below them is a complex hierarchy. In this sett there are two sows and six cubs which suggest more than one sow gave birth this year.

Badger cubs at play

The way the badger cubs tumble about together is great fun to watch, but these play fights are also an important part of their development. One day these youngsters will need to fight for territory. Listen to the sound of them chittering!

Synchronised scratching

Badgers can be so funny. Watch for the moment an adult boar sits down to scratch and a cub mirrors his movements.

Poor eyesight

And the best thing of all for me is that these animals have very poor eyesight. If I sit very still they come very close before they notice me.

But great sense of smell

But they have an incredible sense of smell so I need to be sure I'm downwind.

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I am a British wildlife artist and filmmaker on a mission to share my love for wildlife with the world. As well as creating detailed animal film and art portraits, I promote wildlife tours around the world and do all I can to help conserve and protect wildlife here at my home in Yorkshire. I hope that by putting nature in the frame I can foster a deep love for wildlife amongst my followers.

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