"Out in the light they are at risk".

 

Founder of the once great British Naturalist Association (f 1905) W. Kay Robinson wrote in his 1949 book Briatain's Beasts of Prey that people walking around wooded areas during the day would report coming across a bear. Or that a bear moved toward them and they all ran to report to the police or who ever.

Escaped exotics? No. These people were seeing badgers. How on Earth anyone who has grown up and been educated in the UK does not know what a badger is ...it is almost unbelievable.

Mrs James used to see badgers playing around in her garden in the early morning light and occasionally at mid-day. There are, or were before the unscientific cull of badgers, lots of people who saw badgers out and about during the day. Look for badger footage on Face Book or You Tube and there are lots of clips of badgers out and about during the day -p-laying or just exploring.

I have read many books on quadrupeds going back to the 17th century. There is no "exclusively seen only during the night. Mel;ecide depended on knowing where the setts were and not just active at night.

I have been contacted by people concerned that they have seen a badger during daylight. "If it is out in daylight it is sick or injured" is a modern dogma. People copy what others have written and those others likely swiped their info from someone else. Does a badger look fit and healthy and is it moving about normally?   Then keep an eye on it and see what it does. Most are usually going back to their setts and you would be surprised at how many people have no idea that badgers walk through their garden every day or that there is a badger sett in the garden two doors down.

Cubs often move around near the setts playing or exploring. Does the cub look injured or weak? No? Then leave it.

WHY stress out a sow and the cubs by trapping young when there is no need to?

We have had two badger cubs trapped by Secret World who are now j hoping to get them back to their mother BUT they have no idea where the sett is. So they have now created a problem that did not exist before just as Bristol Badger Group was hoping to check setts in the area involved. Moronic actions by so called wildlife "rescues" is one of the bigger threats to wildlife after the "We have them and are not going to release them 'sancturies'.

If they look healthy and have no apparent injuries leave them be and PLEASE do not perpetuate the myth of "Out in the light they are at risk".