Blonde badger /erythristic morph

I had heard the myths,but never seen any myself until now when one of the camera traps has picked up some snaps of the legendary blonde badger.Stories abound,some fantastical and far fetched like the one we heard as kids of blonde badgers being previously like normal black and white badgers but were thrown out of their setts in broad sunlight by the others for doing some cardinal wrong like fraternising with foxes and the harsh sun had bleached their fur.Never seen with the others they were relegated to a solitary life of loneliness while being even shirked by their former foxy friends who found the now weird looking blonde badgers not striking enough to hang about with.Other country myths said they were ghosts of badgers not quite in the process of leaving this earth and wandered about forever seeking that sett in the sky that eluded them.That superstitious rural Sussex of the early`70,s that i was brought up in has long gone along with the characters that I came across on my childhood ramblings but their stories still live on in memory as do my memories of them.....

Leaf litter

Mixed bag from set C.No story to tell,no behaviour to comment on just a collection of pictures of animals out and about on their daily activities.The pics stretch out over a month though ,earliest first and show just how deep the leaf litter has got......

Not as strange as folk

It,s all been going on in front of camC ,loads of new pics to post like one of the best badger ones i,ve ever had in the first one.The 2 fox cubs are inseparable with one not being too far away from the other,the 3rd and 4th pics show a baby rabbit being eaten at night and the 4th pic is a "spot the roe deer competition".The last 3 pics show a fox doing something at a place where they regularly do and often one of the other foxes will come by and have a sniff and maybe do something themselves or even roll in it but what did surprise me was this rabbit which had a roll around itself,reason unknown.
They say in Yorkshire i think it is "there,s nowt as strange as folk", very true i,d have to agree but that rabbit is acting a little strange methinks......

Badger sniffing about

The badger and the spider

The fox cubs are on the move

All over the place the fox cubs are on the move away from their den sites,i also picked up some pics of a badger in this new cam spot and pics of them are as rare as chickens teeth in areas where a big cat has been active (where i try to put my cams)so maybe one hasn,t been here after all as lack of badgers is my new litmus test of an area that cats like,i really don,t know if a cat has been here or not just assumed it was a good place as there are hordes of rabbits and plenty of thick hedgerows,the roe should be here as well but seem to be lacking for some reason,they haven,t showed up on the cam yet but i did see some little signs of them(some poo)The roe doe in the 2nd pic from the other spot seems ready to drop as she,s looking very bulbous........

Badger at night

Nothing too exciting from harecam this,the first week it,s been set.Just a,bit over exposed,badger,a pheasant and a roe with it,s tongue out,it look like it,s been running a bit for some reason.No hares yet but will have to wait and see........