Westwind
5 year old buck +
I’m from northwest Illinois. There have always been a few badgers around but I don’t see them or sign of them very often and always thought they were interesting animals.
Recently started to see badger sized holes and would put a camera on it and not get any pics.
Backing up a little, a few years ago I started to see an occasional ground squirrel when I was mowing. Started seeing them down by the road. They were always around the edges of my warm season grass plot. When they started showing up in my yard, I started shooting them with my air rifle. (Shot two yesterday.) Went out to mow yesterday and there is a big hole right by a ground squirrel hole. Did some googling, I learned that badgers dig up the damn ground squirrels hunting them which is why I’m not getting pics when I put a camera on the holes.
My warm season grass patch is a south facing hillside. When I walked it last spring shed hunting it was full of holes.
I figure the next damn thing will be a bumper crop of snakes.
For those of you that have lots of badgers around, what are your thoughts on this? They are protected here but how do you guys think about them and have they become a nuisance animal?
What are my next steps beyond filling holes? Now I’m wondering if I need to mow that warm season grass patch a few years which I hate to do as it is a great little bedding area and I’m seeing the occasional quail and pheasant.
Recently started to see badger sized holes and would put a camera on it and not get any pics.
Backing up a little, a few years ago I started to see an occasional ground squirrel when I was mowing. Started seeing them down by the road. They were always around the edges of my warm season grass plot. When they started showing up in my yard, I started shooting them with my air rifle. (Shot two yesterday.) Went out to mow yesterday and there is a big hole right by a ground squirrel hole. Did some googling, I learned that badgers dig up the damn ground squirrels hunting them which is why I’m not getting pics when I put a camera on the holes.
My warm season grass patch is a south facing hillside. When I walked it last spring shed hunting it was full of holes.
I figure the next damn thing will be a bumper crop of snakes.
For those of you that have lots of badgers around, what are your thoughts on this? They are protected here but how do you guys think about them and have they become a nuisance animal?
What are my next steps beyond filling holes? Now I’m wondering if I need to mow that warm season grass patch a few years which I hate to do as it is a great little bedding area and I’m seeing the occasional quail and pheasant.
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