zandy01 3,575 Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Hi all, can anyone tell me the best way to attract badgers please as I do a lot of wildlife photography and would love to capture them on camera. Ive been monitoring a sett for past week and put a good amount of peanuts and fruit out but nothing eaten. Definitely an active sett as I’ve got them on trailcam, seen one and fresh scat in latrines but I’m wanting to photograph them. Any help or advice appreciated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nicepix 5,650 Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 (edited) My friend used to put malt loaf down for them. It clags up their mouths so they hang around while trying to clear the roof of their gobs. Edited April 26, 2019 by Nicepix spelling 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
micky 3,325 Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Snare a Rabbit within a hundred yards of their Den and they will come 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,189 Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Drop a pill and get on the floor works for packham 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Qbgrey 3,981 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 Keep chickens they love a bit of chicken breast 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zandy01 3,575 Posted April 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 Would a dead rabbit do or raw chicken breast ??? Ive heard fish oil is good for luring them in ??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shovel leaner 7,648 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 Guys doing the cull use peanuts , not KP or the salted varieties, just the kind you put out for birds in the garden . You say you have been trying for a week ? Not maybe long enough. Think about where you want to photograph them and it doesn’t have to be on top of the sett , then leave the peanuts out for them there they go mad for them.....apparently . The trick is to poke them in the ground, they then have to dig them up which gives you time , it also stops birds from eating them . Apparently pheasants love them too . So bait the area until you see the claw marks and signs that they have found them . Then you should be successful. 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shovel leaner 7,648 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 Guys doing the cull use peanuts , not KP or the salted varieties, just the kind you put out for birds in the garden . You say you have been trying for a week ? Not maybe long enough. Think about where you want to photograph them and it doesn’t have to be on top of the sett , then leave the peanuts out for them there they go mad for them.....apparently . The trick is to poke them in the ground, they then have to dig them up which gives you time , it also stops birds from eating them . Apparently pheasants love them too . So bait the area until you see the claw marks and signs that they have found them . Then you should be successful. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jiggy 3,207 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 A bellman and flint will get ya fairly close depending on the humour of the dog wearing it 2 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,237 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 (edited) Shovel leaner is right red skin peanuts, laid down regularly over a few evenings will draw them in, used to have an allotment opposite my house were I had a load of bird feeders up, I could take the kids over any night of the week and show them live badgers under the feeders mopping up the nuts, prof Steven Harris of Bristol uni has cage trapped hundreds if not thousands of badgers round me for his study,s and when ever I used to find the traps floor would be covered in p nuts Edited April 27, 2019 by Greyman 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel cain 42,846 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 monkey nuts and peanut butter smothered on some logs outside your hide 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steve66 3,085 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 Ive tried afew times to photograph them , they seem very wary , I think the ones you see on the telly and pics are fairly tame A friend though photographs them been using peanuts probabily about a year and there still quite flighty so he uses a telephoto lens and stays down wind as they on there sense off smell to detect danger 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,237 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 10 minutes ago, steve66 said: Ive tried afew times to photograph them , they seem very wary , I think the ones you see on the telly and pics are fairly tame A friend though photographs them been using peanuts probabily about a year and there still quite flighty so he uses a telephoto lens and stays down wind as they on there sense off smell to detect danger I,ve checked setts daily years back in all weathers and during periods of real cold they can stay below ground for a few weeks without coming out, Zandi is also a lot further north than me and I think they are a bit thinner on the ground, people round me just put peanuts in the garden and film them through the patio doors 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zandy01 3,575 Posted April 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 Thanks for all the replies gents, some good tips and some are just not my bag... I know from experience it’ll take some amount of effort and patience but I’ll get there, I’ve put peanuts and fruit down, also smeared some logs with peanut butter and fish oil so hopefully get some image in the coming months... Its definitely active Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jiggy 3,207 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 1 hour ago, zandy01 said: Thanks for all the replies gents, some good tips and some are just not my bag... I know from experience it’ll take some amount of effort and patience but I’ll get there, I’ve put peanuts and fruit down, also smeared some logs with peanut butter and fish oil so hopefully get some image in the coming months... Its definitely active I was out waiting on a chicken killing fox one time and a half grown badger came out of earth and sat on my boot. Another time I seen a fox fighting a badger in full battle at the mouth of the entrance . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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