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Fox or Badger hole

  • 21-04-2014 10:13AM
    #1
    LIFFY FISHING
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭


    Hi lads, not sure, whats ur thoughts on the attached?


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  • #2
    vincentf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭vincentf


    Not too sure liffeyfishing. Looks very fresh. Could be either. Badger cleans out bedding daily im led to belive. If its fox it will have a strong smell with no litter around hole. Any paw prints around in that soil ?


  • #3
    LIFFY FISHING
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭LIFFY FISHING


    vincentf wrote: »
    Not too sure liffeyfishing. Looks very fresh. Could be either. Badger cleans out bedding daily im led to belive. If its fox it will have a strong smell with no litter around hole. Any paw prints around in that soil ?

    None at all, no fur, bones or feathers, thinking it might be a vixen setting up a new home?


  • #4
    robertpatterson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 934 ✭✭✭robertpatterson


    If theres no latrine nearby and no bedding you can be fairly sure its a fox den,check for pad marks they'll give you a better idea
    If youve been at it already the chances that shell use it now would be slim
    Put some small twigs over the entrance and if theyre down when you come back somethings living there


  • #5
    TriggerPL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭TriggerPL


    Fox it's to clean around it , badger would have bits of bedding and ahit , trail cam lad perfect opportunity for one


  • #6
    ronn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭ronn


    TriggerPL wrote: »
    Fox it's to clean around it , badger would have bits of bedding and ahit , trail cam lad perfect opportunity for one

    Grizzly bear be careful. :-)


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  • #7
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    ronn wrote: »
    Grizzly bear be careful. :-)

    Or a big fcuk off rat :)


  • #8
    LIFFY FISHING
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭LIFFY FISHING


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Or a big fcuk off rat :)

    It would have needed a shovel so ! :)


  • #9
    landkeeper2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭landkeeper2


    looks to me like a badger dug out a nest of rabbits


  • #10
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    LIFFY FISHING wrote: »
    It would have needed a shovel so ! :)

    Not if you seen the size of the fcuker caught in city west 3 week ago :)


  • #11
    Eddie B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Doesn't look like badger anyway! More than likely rabbit burrow dug out by hungry fox!


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  • #12
    LIFFY FISHING
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭LIFFY FISHING


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Doesn't look like badger anyway! More than likely rabbit burrow dug out by hungry fox!


    Thats what I was thinking, I have seen foxes and rabbitts in this area but never badgers & was wondering had some badgers "relocated" in the area.


  • #13
    archerforever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭archerforever


    Trail cam is your only man


  • #14
    hunterpajero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭hunterpajero


    hardly a fox id say more badger dug out something or else a dog judging by the way the roots are broken


  • #15
    junospider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭junospider


    looks like the work of a dog to me.


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