We get our share or wildlife foraging around our garden most evenings but last night we picked up on a couple of large Badgers foraging along one of our Cornish walls and drinking from our pond.
They were the first Badgers that we had seen in the garden for a couple of years so today my wife came home with a pot of peanut butter to treat them should they return again tonight,
To make things a little more interesting to watch I smeared the peanut butter onto a couple or logs and placed them butter downward facing on the wall together to see how long it took the badgers to find and access the treat,
First in was a fox cub that cleared a few loose peanuts, It could also smell the peanut butter but did not seem to have the humph to turn the logs to access it.
As you can see by the images posted here the badger was a different story. The first one in just after fox had cleared up the peanuts was straight on to the treat and it very quickly demonstrated its powerful log rolling skills on camera
And after working hard at turning the sticky logs over using its nose and powerful talons until they were treat-side up, Here is our Badger very much enjoying the fruits of its labour even if it seemed to be it was a bit like :
Working for Peanuts !!
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