How do you know if a badger has been in your garden?
Signs of badgers You may see tunnels dug under your fences or chunks clawed out of the lawn. These are caused by the badgers digging for larvae below the turf, most common in spring time. You may also find they’ve burrowed into vegetable patches or flowerbeds – hunting for bulbs – when food is scarce.
What time of year do Badgers dig up lawns?
spring
How can you tell a badger hole?
A badger hole is generally the shape of a D on its side, as opposed to circular, and does not narrow inside the entrance, unlike rabbit holes.
Are disused badger setts protected?
Contents. Badgers and their setts (tunnels and chambers where they live) are protected by law. You may be able to get a licence from Natural England if you can’t avoid disturbing badgers in their sett or damaging their sett.
How close to a badger set can you build?
As a guide, any work within 30m of an entrance to a badger sett (or 100m for pile driving and blasting work) could result in disturbance of a badger in the sett, or block or damage tunnels that radiate from the entrance to the sett.
How long does a badger Licence last?
The application must relate to the whole of an area in relation to which, in the view of Natural England, an effective cull has been carried out under a Badger Disease Control Licence for a period of at least four years.
When can you close badger setts?
Excluding badgers from setts Before setts are destroyed, you must be certain that all badgers have been excluded. This work must be done under licence. Licences to exclude badgers and to close down or destroy a sett are only issued between 1 July and 30 November, other than in exceptional circumstances.
Is Badger culling legal?
Badger culling in the United Kingdom is permitted under licence, within a set area and timescale, as a way to reduce badger numbers in the hope of controlling the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB).
How big can a badger sett be?
20 to 100 metres