Graham bagging by Badger

[rohan]

On 14/05 descending from the summit of Groban at the back of 9pm in mist and fading light at the height of about 650m I was surprised (as was the badger when it eventually spotted me) to see this badger. Photo taking with my mobile at about 30 metres and cropped heavily so apologies for the poor quality.
Badger by Seal54, on Flickr

[denfinella]

Wow, amazing!

[jmarkb]

I would never have thought of that as badger habitat!

[rohan]

:shock: I would never have thought of that as badger habitat!

Nor me but later I read that Chris Townsend encountered one high on Seana Bhraigh.

[Caberfeidh]

There was a post on here years ago when someone had found badgers up a hill (I think in Glen Affric) which were scavenging on a deer carcase. Maybe the badger was sniffing out such stuff. Or following you in the hope you'd collapse and become carrion...

[rohan]

There was a post on here years ago when someone had found badgers up a hill (I think in Glen Affric) which were scavenging on a deer carcase. Maybe the badger was sniffing out such stuff. Or following you in the hope you'd collapse and become carrion... :shock:

It missed its chance then. I had been up since 04.45 and was dropping with tiredness as I pitched my tent about 15 minutes later.

[Tringa]

A great sighting, Rohan.

I suppose because most, if not all, of the footage of badgers on TV are from lowland woods(or people's back gardens) we tend to think they don't live anywhere else.

A few years ago the Beinn Eighe visitor's centre had a video from a trail camera of a badger feeding on a deer carcass on the reserve.

Dave

[Sgurr]

Amazing.

[Gemma3010]

wow! very cool