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Attracting foxes, badgers, hedgogs etc

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 33,752
    Badgers flip hedgehogs onto their backs and rip their stomachs open to eat them. What's to like about them?
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,846
    Our recent guests live in Bristol on the street where the badgers are often filmed in that garden that backs onto the dell.  They are very happy for chappy to have his badgers but don't want them in their own garden so they have reinforced the fencing all round to stop them getting in.   Expensive but effective.   Not gardeners and can't be doing with clearing up the mess.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • I've been looking at wireless cctv systems which you can use for filming wildlife which look easy enough to fit https://www.dtsdigitalcctv.co.uk/Wireless-CCTV-Systems.asp
    You can get night vision cameras which obviously do not require any additional lighting which would put the animals off. I have seen foxes before passing through the garden so would just really like to get them on camera. I wouldn't be looking to feed them especially just encourage them to pass through more often.

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,133
    We have badgers passing through the garden every night and they do damage the lawn but rarely more than a few deep scratchings. However our gardener told us that another of her clients had her lawn virtually destroyed this week. It is about 1/4 of an acre and she said that the next morning it resembled a WW1 battlefield. May not have been badgers but we could not think of anything else to accuse.
    Rutland, England
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,846
    Wild boar?   
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,779
    Recent badger damage to a recently turfed lawn at friend's place


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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,133
    Obelixx, only wild bores in Rutland.
    Rutland, England
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