Badger at full stretch

We all tend to think of rather rotund Badger images being of them trundling along the ground foraging for their prey so I decided to complete a bit of an exercise over a couple of nights to check out their true reach capabilities.

I placed a few peanuts in harder to reach locations at various heights above ground level and snapped away as the badger gradually reached higher and higher,   I  was impressed when at a stretch in the image above this Badger finally reached nuts placed on a tree stump 80cm/32 inches above ground level,

So in the long and the short of it Badgers appear to have quite poor vision but they do seem capable of following the scent of a peanut and reaching it in many hard to find locations around our garden and they are a joy to watch foraging.