What's mildly irritating you today?

[Carruthers]

Last night a Badger, or possibly Badgers, decided to excavate the back lawn.

My objection isn't so much the damage, which is easily rectified, but the fact that being nocturnal creatures they're difficult to spot.
By pure good luck, Dad looked out the back window just before 9pm one evening last month and, in the light from the house, saw one pottering about the lawn.
It didn't do any damage and we wouldn't have known that it had been there had Dad not spotted it.
Eventually, it ambled off past the honeysuckle to I know not where.

For most people the only time they see a Badger is when one has met its doom on the road. I am quite fond of the creatures so don't begrudge them their forays into the garden.
They are opportunist feeders and will take whatever is on offer. I believe that they are after Chafer grubs which seem to be in surplus at the moment. The same thing happened the Autumn before last.

Anyway, this is what it/they did...




It only took a few minutes to roll it back again.