Badger/fox set?

[Stubby]

So would you say this is a fox or a badger.

I know the answer from my trail camera.

 

Looks more like a Dandelion to me ........

[Hunter]

Some pictures

[Hunter]

Looks more like a Dandelion to me ........

After googling ''Dandelion'' I totally agree 😂😂😂

[eggsarascal]

That's why I have advised about trail camera.

I saw this hole in our wood, actually I was walking in our wood and fell badly after my foot went inside the hole all the way to the middle of my thigh, I injured my right knee ligament which still hurt.

I thought it is a Fox but trail camera showed two adult badgers living there.

 

I went Fox because there are two setts close to where I live, the holes are a lot smoother than the one in your picture...... live and learn.

[eddystihl]

Badger hole is not round , and they dig the sand in a v form .

 

 

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[peatff]

I don't think I ever saw a badger sett dug straight down before, they have always been sideways into banks or ditch sides. When they have been established for some time you can usually spot them from the bedding which they drag out to put new in.

[Ironbark]

I'm no expert, but I've got badgers in my garden and that looks nothing like the setts I've got which are all angled on slopes not straight down like that.

Edited May 4, 2017 by Ironbark

[Stubby]

The sets are all in the chalk here on the South Downs . There are heaps of chalk with some flints in it and the tunnels go every which way .

[drinksloe]

Being nature its 1 of those things there is no absolute's, althou u do generally get a feel for it.

 

Generally a badger holes is more like a sideways 'D' shape with a flat bottom while a foxes will be rounder, generally badger setts will have many holes while a fox often won't.

 

Only ever seen foxes share a sett when its quite a large sett.

But also badgers will have satelite setts away from the main sett too.

 

In my area foxes only go down holes to cub and in extreme weather, very hard frost or lots of snow.

As has been said badgers live down holes FT, so usually very fresh soil infront and sometimes old bedding.

 

Trail cam will be ur best bet or look round the surrounding area for a latrine in a badger often up hedgerows/fencelines.

Or look for foot prints in softer/wetter areas of soil, badger foot prints are quite unmistakeable.

 

I mind once walking a mile up the rail track to fell a decent sized dangerous oak on a shutdown with an 'ecologist', turns out they had the mile markers wrong licence was invalid so i coudn't fell the tree and to make matter worse was never a badger sett in a million years, a single holer in a massive sandy bank with fox footprints/smell at it.

Some ecoloogists wouldn't know a fox hole if they tripped over it.

 

To be fair ur terrier boys are the folk to ask, they have to know the difference between them.

 

I thought u can still fell trees on top of a badger sett ur just not allowed machinery within 30m's? of it. I know i've definately felled trees to harvesters off active setts before, but possibly they had a licence? Same on railways deveg'ed over them but no machinery/chip piles near them.

[Brett]

it could be one of those black and white foxes.